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 ...

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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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.

Business LyondellBasell to lay off 300-plus employees in Houston as refinery closes. The news comes a little more than a month after the Houston-based international chemical company announced that ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) -LyondellBasell Industries will begin the permanent closure of its 263,776 barrel-per-day Houston refinery this coming weekend, said people familiar with plant operations.

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 ...

Lyondell Basell Houston Refinery, 12000 Lawndale St., is shown Tuesday, August 29, 2017 in Houston. The company shuttered the facility, and now it is laying off more than 300 workers.

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 ...