PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce held its monthly meeting with contractors Wednesday morning to discuss $245 billion worth of industrial projects coming to Southeast Texas.
The Contractors Business Development Group meeting was held at the Carl A. Parker Multipurpose Center in Port Arthur.
These projects will open the door to new jobs at chemical plants, refineries, LNG facilities and more.
"And just everything that goes along with that —the insulators pipe and steel," said President of Gulfcoast Industrial Group Network Travis Woods. "The dominos fall in different directions when you spend $1 billion dollars in new construction, you put one thousand people to work."
Those in attendance had a chance to hear presentations about a new local carbon capture project, a new pipeline project and the jobs they will create in Southeast Texas.
"We've got 34 carbon capture projects in this area that are local to us. When I say local, it is all of them that will put hundreds, thousands of people to work, so we're real excited and the number one objective to carbon capture is to clean the air," said Woods.
ExxonMobil and Chevron have pending carbon capture projects in Jefferson County, but both are pending approval by the EPA.
This is a developing story. We will update with more if or when we receive more confirmed information.
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