ExxonMobil, Southeast Texas leaders celebrate start of $2B Beaumont refinery expansion project

Published: Apr 04, 2023 Duration: 00:01:23 Category: News & Politics

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Every now and then, celebration four years in the making today, ExxonMobil brought the community together to mark the official startup of the blade expansion at its downtown refinery. This new unit is the largest refinery expansion anywhere in the US in the past decade, and ExxonMobil hopes it will supply the energy that America needs. You know, we toured the expansion several weeks ago. The Blade project will help the refinery process crude from West, TX, turning it into diesel and gaso. ExxonMobil says the project. Also put $500 million back into the Southeast Texas economy in terms of new j, Congressman Randy Weber was there for today's celebration. He tells us that crude expansios necessary to avoid another 1973 oil crisis. He also told us he has invited President Joe Biden to see the benefit of our local refineries for him. I wish President Biden, I would invite him to come to our area, see what we're doing, see that salt of the earth we talked about. I think he would find out first hand. This is the place to be. This is what it's all about. It's about Texans. More than that, it's about Americans. It's about national security. And I think he would be impressed by that hope. President Biden, I hope you'll come here the congressman with the invite right here on 12 news at six. Let me tell you, the expansion s made Exxonmobil's Beaumont plant the second largest refinery in the United States. Alright, let.

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