Texas-based infrastructure company CB&I announced on Wednesday that it has won a contract to provide pipe fabrication for the Dow Chemical Company’s U.S. Gulf Coast Investment Program. Dow’s program includes a new propylene and ethylene facility and four new polyethylene factories in Texas and Louisiana.
CB&I has not announced the approximate value of this contract.
OPEC Cheats You Out of Billions
If you know nothing about Saudi oil or OPEC, you should at least know that the United States isn’t exactly in the driver’s seat when there’s an oil cartel around. This is why our energy independence has been such a big deal for the last decade, and why shale gas is so important.