Lake Charles, Baton Rouge construction jobs increase significantly over past year
Lake Charles was seventh in the country in construction job growth at 3,700 jobs between March 2021 and March 2022, while Baton Rouge added...
TotalEnergies signs Cameron LNG expansion agreement
TotalEnergies has signed a "heads of agreement" with Sempra Infrastructure, Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and Japan LNG Investment for the expansion of Cameron LNG,...
B&W, Kiewit to develop biomass-to-energy plant at Baton Rouge port
Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) is partnering with Kiewit Industrial to design and construct a net-negative carbon impact biomass power plant at the Port of Greater...
Tellurian begins construction at Driftwood LNG site
Tellurian Inc. announced March 28 that it has issued a limited notice to proceed to Bechtel Energy Inc. under an Engineering, Procurement and Construction...
Washington manufacturer to retrofit shuttered Jennings facility
Greenberry Industrial LLC of Vancouver, Wash., plans to convert a shuttered Gulf Island Fabrication site near Jennings, closed in late 2020, into a plant that...
ExxonMobil shuts down part of refinery for planned work
ExxonMobil Corp. shut a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker on Friday for planned work at its 502,500-barrel-per-day Baton Rouge refinery, Reuters reports.
The firm also plans to shut...
Venture Global secures natural gas deal at Plaquemines LNG
Venture Global LNG has agreed to buy natural gas for its Plaquemines LNG export plant from a unit of Spanish energy company Repsol, Reuters...
Chennault’s $4 million air cargo facility nears completion
Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles is nearing completion of a $4 million facility to service the air cargo sector, reports Air Cargo News.
Construction...
ExxonMobil’s $500M polyolefins plant addition on track for startup this year
ExxonMobil’s $500 million addition to its Scenic Highway polyolefins plant is about 75% complete, with startup expected before the end of the year, officials say.
The project...
Bechtel completes Train 6 at Sabine Pass LNG facility
Cheniere Energy Partners LP, a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy Inc., announced last week that it had achieved substantial completion of Train 6 at the...
