Fuel oil imports into the refinery hub on the U.S. Gulf Coast hit a record low in June as tighter global supplies prompted refiners to run more heavy, sour crude.

It won’t be the last refinery to stop operating this year, said Joe Pezzino, senior advisor at S&P Global Commodity Insights who tracks refinery outages and closures, pointing to Phillips 66’s ...

A 1969 view of the Lyondell Houston Refinery, owned by Sinclair at the time, from the Goodyear blimp. Sinclair built the refinery in 1918. Wayne Lieber/Lieber Photography ...

Lyondell Basell Houston Refinery, 12000 Lawndale St., is shown Tuesday, August 29, 2017 in Houston. The company plans to shutter the refinery starting this weekend.

Now, the refinery is part of a massive petrochemical corridor and is one of 10 fuelmakers in Houston, many of which are modernized megaplants that have been retooled to process light oil from the ...

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Related. Houston will be in recession by summer because of tariffs, falling crude oil prices, UH economist forecasts; LyondellBasell to lay off 300-plus employees in Houston as refinery closes ...

Houston-based petrochemicals manufacturer LyondellBasell Industries N.V. said its Houston refinery will be closed by the end of the first quarter 2025.

Smoke rises in June from the LyondellBasell Houston refinery in Houston. The city’s oldest refinery is preparing to shut down, potentially putting hundreds of people out of work.

Houston’s oldest refinery is shutting. It won’t be the last Feb. 17, 2025 Updated Mon., Feb. 17, 2025 at 8:48 p.m. Smoke rises from the LyondellBasell Houston refinery on June 14, 2024, in ...

After more than a century of churning out fuel on the banks of the Houston Ship Channel, the city’s oldest refinery is preparing to shut down, potentially putting hundreds of people out of work.