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Fortune 500 companies based in Houston [1]: Rank Company name 12: ExxonMobil: 48: Phillips 66: 60: Sysco: 105: Enterprise Products Partners: 106: Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 127: Plains GP Holdings
Cofferdam [1] containment dome under construction in at Wild Well Control in Port Fourchon, Louisiana on April 26, 2010.. Wild Well Control is a well control company based in Houston, Texas that has worked to mitigate several high-profile well control issues including the Kuwaiti oil fires and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The 58-acre Brio Refinery site was home to several chemical companies between 1957 and 1982, when the owner, Brio Refinery Inc. declared bankruptcy and ceased operations. During that period, the site had been used for copper recovery and petroleum re-refining , typically the processing of tar , sludge , and other residue from oil tanks and ...
The Houston plant was authorized in 1942 as part of the United States Rubber Reserve Program, [2] and opened in 1944 operated by Sinclair Rubber. It was subsequently purchased by a joint venture of Tenneco and FMC Corporation in 1955, and the joint venture was named Petro-Tex Chemical Corporation, also known as PTC Corporation, until sold to Texas Olefins in 1984.
Florida leads the nation in placing state prisons in the hands of private, profit-making companies. In recent years, the state has privatized the entirety of its $183 million juvenile commitment system — the nation’s third-largest, trailing only California and Texas.
In one case, two men were arrested for operating a sex trafficking ring in the Houston area: Venezuelan national Pedro Gonzales and Brandon Andrews, a U.S. citizen and known sex trafficker with a ...
Poindexter was born in Houston, Texas. [1]He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honors. [1] After several years' military service, he entered New York University, where an MBA in 1971 was followed by a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance in 1976.
Houston Christian prevailed by scoring the game's final seven points and pouring in a season-best 11 3-pointers. Mackey leads the Huskies at 15.3 points per game in 25 minutes per contest.