Layoffs at Lyondell Basell Industries' shuttered Houston refinery will begin in mid-April, the company stated in a letter ...

The closure of the plant, which dates to 1918, reflects the struggles of a sector that’s declining along with demand for its ...

The closure of a major Houston refinery is a bellwether for pressure on a segment of the oil and gas industry that is costly to run and historically not very profitable. But just how quickly EVs ...

LyondellBasell will begin the closure of its Houston-area petroleum refinery at the end of January, the company confirmed. The closure was first reported Wednesday by Reuters, which also reported ...

Lyondell Basell Industries completed the final shutdown of its 263,776 barrel-per-day Houston refinery, people familiar with ...

Chevron will lay off 15 to 20 percent of its global workforce by the end 0f 2026, in an effort to cut costs and simplify its ...

Oil refineries have long been the lifeblood of many working-class neighborhoods in East Texas, often offering six-figure incomes without education requirements. Now, change is in the air.

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 ...

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.