📋 Tender Overview
Scope : To Build Largest New Refinery in Brownsville, Texas, United States
A Houston company will construct the largest new refinery in the last 50 years in Brownsville, Texas.
Element Fuel Holdings LLC is spending between $3 and $4 billion on the project, which will produce more than 160,000 barrels per day of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from shale oil production.
The refinery will be located in the Port of Brownsville and constructed in three phases. The first construction phase includes building a naphtha hydrotreater and reformer, which is expected to be operational by 2027. Element will also build a power plant that uses hydrogen and natural gas to produce energy and include carbon capture and storage to reduce the facility's carbon footprint.
Element Fuels intends to produce enough hydrogen to supply all the refinery's power needs, significantly reducing the refinery's emissions compared to older refineries that run on diesel.
In its second phase, it will also add a crude distillation unit and diesel hydrotreater. In its third phase, the refinery will investigate using excess hydrogen and carbon dioxide to make biofuels.
