The Baytown expansion is in addition to the ExxonMobil’s 2017 Growing the Gulf initiative, which outlined plans to build and expand manufacturing facilities along the U.S. Gulf Coast, creating more than 45,000 high-paying jobs across the region.

The United States is a leading producer of oil and natural gas, which is allowing for historic new investments in U.S. manufacturing.

Carbon capture and storage is a process that takes carbon dioxide that would otherwise have been released into the atmosphere and injects it into underground geologic formations for permanent storage.

As society continues to advance and address multiple important issues – such as alleviating poverty, expanding economic development, and providing billions of people with basic energy access and improved living standards – the demand for energy across the global economy is expected to grow substantially. 

Methane is the primary component of natural gas. The energy industry works hard to limit methane emissions, not only for environmental reasons, but also to capture more of the gas for sale.

Extracting oil or natural gas from shale, tight sandstones or coal beds requires drawing the resource through openings about one half the width of a human hair. Hydraulic fracturing uses water pressure to create hairline fractures in rocks deep underground so oil or natural gas can flow through a well to the surface.

Smart regulations help protect public health and the environment, but ineffective, unnecessary regulations cost jobs, undercut growth and undermine competitiveness.

Technologies don’t currently exist in order to meet future energy demand while reducing emissions across the transportation, industrial and power sectors in meaningful ways.

USMCA updates and improves the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a 25-year-old trade agreement among the US, Canada, and Mexico. The NAFTA agreement needs to be modernized to reflect the 21st century economy and better enable American interests and workers to compete.

Pipelines are an essential part of American infrastructure that we all depend on for affordable and available energy supplies across the country.