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New Refinery in Brownsville?
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:06 am
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:06 am
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced America First Refining (AFR) is opening the first new U.S. oil refinery in nearly half a century in Brownsville, Texas.
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India is funding:
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Partners in India and their largest privately held energy company, Reliance, made a "tremendous" investment in the project, according to Trump.
Apparently John Calce is heading up the "America First" group that is leading it.
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This is going to take years at least, right? Any of you baws think this is real?
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Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:17 am to RanchoLaPuerto
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Partners in India
400 more H-1B's + their families moving to Texas
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:22 am to RanchoLaPuerto
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This is going to take years at least, right?
Nah man
3 and a half months dog
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:28 am to RanchoLaPuerto
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This is going to take years at least, right?
Just in permitting. Construction will probably take 2-3 years after that. Bringing all units online will probably take a while too.
Probably 5 years out minimum if I had to guess
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:40 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Probably 5 years out minimum if I had to guess
That's exactly what I thought.
Also, it is showing a capacity of 168,000 BOPD. That would be an increase of less than 1% of all US refining capacity.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:54 am to RanchoLaPuerto
Makes sense, they are building a ginormous LNG facility between Brownsville & South Padre Island. I drove by it when I was there in January.
Pretty soon we won't have any employees in our plant there. We can't compete with the wages those jobs are going to pay.
Pretty soon we won't have any employees in our plant there. We can't compete with the wages those jobs are going to pay.
This post was edited on 3/11/26 at 11:56 am
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:58 am to RanchoLaPuerto
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Also, it is showing a capacity of 168,000 BOPD. That would be an increase of less than 1% of all US refining capacity.
Correct, but it would be able to take the domestic cruses in a preferential basis, in theory.
One thing I didn’t realize until I started working ~20 years ago was just how big the American industrial economy is. Build by a refinery that would add more than 1-3% refining capacity would be a HUGE facility and would be virtually impossible to accomplish because it would simply be cheaper for the banks to keep expanding the existing mega refineries (or at least the ones that have space).
Posted on 3/11/26 at 12:00 pm to AlumneyeJ93
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Pretty soon we won't have any employees in our plant there. We can't compete with the wages those jobs are going to pay.
I’ve heard similar comments about the new LNG facilities in Louisiana. Are the sites really that profitable that they can pay that or is it more of a “oh shite we need competent workers yesterday to even operate, damn the cost”?
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