The expansion will require driving 50,000 concrete piles into the swampy soil.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: A $7 Billion Expansion Updates Texas Refinery
Aramco, Shell to Double Size
Of Historic Plant,
Modify It To Handle
‘Nastiest Crudes’
By NEIL KING JR.
April 7, 2008; Page B1
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Oil companies are traveling farther and drilling deeper to find that next barrel of crude. But the oil they’re unearthing is increasingly gooey, acidic or laced with sulfur.
That’s why two of the world’s largest oil companies — state-controlled Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC — have begun plowing an expected $7 billion into the most ambitious U.S. refinery project in more than 30 years.
Doubling the size of the storied Motiva refinery, whose roots go back to the days of the famous Spindletop gusher of 1901, will turn the sprawling plant here on the Gulf Coast into the largest crude refiner in the U.S. But the bigger plan is to make the Port Arthur facility the best equipped in the country to digest the world’s most challenging oil — the stickier, high-sulfur stuff that sells at a discount to the light, sweet crude that first put Texas on the map. read more
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