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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 ...
LyondellBasell plans to shut down its Houston Refinery by the end of the first quarter of 2025, resulting in over 400 layoffs. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.