Tag: Houston

• Friday, July 28th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

  Uruguay: Desalination plant arrives from United States to fight the water crisis

  

  Uruguayan authorities Thursday confirmed the arrival in Montevideo of a desalination plant bought in the United States to fight the water crisis hitting the country. The piece of equipment was expected to take about four weeks to be delivered from Houston, but in the end, it was over two months.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Chevron completes purchase of controversial Petrobras refinery in Houston

  

  Chevron Corp completed a US$ 350 million purchase of a refinery in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas, from Brazil’s Petrobras, Chevron said in a statement. The sale was agreed to in January, but Chevron put the transfer of the 112,229-barrel-per-day plant’s ownership on hold on April 2, telling Petrobras it had to prove the refinery would operate as promised.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  US blacklists PDVSA tankers and two companies shipping Venezuelan oil to Cuba

  

  US Vice President Mike Pence announced sanctions on Friday on 34 vessels of Venezuela's state oil company and two companies that ship crude to Cuba as Washington pushes to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Ten people killed in school shooting by a student near Houston, Texas

  

  Ten people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting on Friday morning at a high school south of Houston, authorities said. The shooting at Santa Fe High School was the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.

• Monday, March 5th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Beware: OPEC and US shale industry scheduled to meet and share dinner in Houston

  

  Oil prices rose early on Monday ahead of a meeting between OPEC and U.S. shale firms in Houston, raising expectations that oil producers would discuss further how to clear a global oil glut. Oil ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other global oil players are set to gather in Houston as CERAWeek, the largest energy industry conference, begins on Monday.