b'E c o n o m i c sCELANESE CORPORATION BISHOP PLANTAcetic acid is one of the most com- BUCKEYE PARTNERSWith origins in the energy transportation business dating mon core chemicals used in the production of thousands of foods, inks and coat- back to 1886 in Ohio, Buckeye supplied crude oil to refineries in the Midwest by ings, and even medicine, and Irving, Texas, based Celanese Corp. makes over 25%truck and rail for generations, before the advent of pipelines. Today, it is one of the of the worlds supplymuch at its Bishop plant, which opened in 1945. In additionlargest pipeline companies in the country, recently expanding into maritime termi-to chemical production, two other Celanese divisions operate at the Bishop plant.nal operations that included its acquisition of an existing dock located deep into Ticona is a major producer of plastic polymers that are used in core materials forthe port, past the Tule Lake Turning Basin, in 2020. Buckeye is also building a new everything from conveyor belts to filtration and fuel transfer materials. BASF wasterminal on Ingleside Point. The company is wholly-owned by Australian-based IFM founded in Germany almost 160 years ago, and today is the worlds largest chemicalInvestors, which manages $80 billion in pension fund investments and owns infra-company. Across the world, its divisions participate in 390 manufacturing partner- structure assets across the world, including every major airport in Australia.ships, including BASF Pharmaceuticals with Celanese in Bishop for the productionVALERO EAST & WEST REFINERIESWithout a doubt, San Antonio-based Vale-of Ibuprofen, the pain reliever first introduced to the public in the 1970s as Motrin,ro Energy Corporation is the single, most successful company based in South Tex-and most popularly as Advil in the 1980s. The Bishop Ibuprofen plant is the mostas, now the worlds largest, independent refiner with almost $180 billion-per-year productive, efficient and environmentally-safe facility of its kind in the world. in sales. In what was the largest corporate spin-off in American history, Valero was LYONDELL-BASSELLEthyleneandPropyleneareamongthemost-usedplas- chartered on January 1, 1980, replacing LoVaca Gathering Company, a division of tic polymer materials that play a part in all of our daily lives. LyondellBassell is theCoastal States Gas Corporation, owned by legendary oil man and former Corpus third-largest chemical manufacturer in the world, and produces over 2.5 billionChristi resident, Oscar Wyatt. The company was named after the official name of the pounds per year of these products at its Corpus Christi plant. Alamo, Mission San Antonio de Valero. In 1981, Valero purchased Corpus Christi Ma-TURNER INDUSTRIESBased in Baton Rouge, Turner has been servicing refineriesrine Services on the port, and embarked upon the construction of the last ground-up refinery in the United States, the Bill Greehey Refinery, which opened in 1983 and and heavy industry for six decades, now one of the biggest such firms in the world.is still one of the most complex and technologically advanced facilities of its kind in Their services range from turnarounds, maintenance and installation projects, heavythe world. Along with Valeros East plant, the company processes some 370,000 bpd hauling and even clean-room services from their 50-acre, Corpus Christi site. (barrels per day) of sweet and sour crude oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and FLINT HILLS RESOURCESIn 1981, the Sun Oil Company refinery that was origi- aromatics. Valero also operates over 4,700 retail locations throughout the U.S.nally opened in 1953 was purchased by Kansas-based Koch Refining Company, ledPIN OAK GROUPIn the energy industry, midstream refers to the marketing and by the politically infamous brothers, Charles and David Koch. The plant was desig- distribution of crude oil and natural gas from drillers to refiners and chemical pro-nated the West Refinery when the company acquired the East Refinery in 1995notcessors that make the products to be sold to end users. Pin Oak operates storage long thereafter, Koch Refining was renamed Flint Hills Resources, and today alsotanks and marine terminals on the port, as well as tanks and a pipeline hub in Taft.operates a crude oil terminal on Ingleside Point. The refineries produce over fourH&S CONSTRUCTORSFounded in Corpus Christi in 1981, and still based here, billion pounds per year of petrol products including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel,H&S (Patrick Horne and Michael Scott) has grown into a multi-state operator, pro-which it supplies to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport via its own pipelines. viding heavy construction services to the energy industry. For refineries and indus-CC POLYMERSPolyethylene Terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common- trial plants, H&S provides everything from pipe fabrication to complete revamps and ly-used plastic resins in the world, and CC Polymers is one of the largest makers of it,overhauls. The companys pipeline division is turn-key, to include pumping stations along with its precursor, PTA powder. Almost all plastic food and beverage packag- and all aspects of product delivery. H&S even builds and repairs tankers and barges ing we encounter in our daily lives is produced using these materials. and provides crane services up to 550 tons, among their range of services. TheCoastalBend.com THE COASTAL BEND GUIDE95'