One of Houston’s largest energy engineering firms had a busy 2019. Houston-based S&B Engineers and Constructors Ltd. hired nearly 4,000 employees in the Houston area over the past 12 months. That is a 96 percent increase from 3,978 employees in January of 2019 to 7,813 employees reported in December. According to S & B Engineering, […]
Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE: EPD) and London-based Navigator Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: NVGS) have launched the first shipment from their new joint venture export terminal along the Houston Ship Channel. The petrochemical export terminal loaded the Navigator Europa for the Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp., according to a press release. The new terminal was built at […]
Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) and The Woodlands-based Western Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: WES) announced on Jan. 6 several steps they’ve taken to start separating. Occidental gained control of the master limited partnership via its acquisition of The Woodlands-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Prior to the $55 billion acquisition closing in August 2019, reports surfaced that Occidental was considering selling half […]