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A project to build a new oil refinery at the Port of Brownsville will break ground next month.
Port of Brownsville Director William Dietrich confirmed yesterday that the project will be built on 240 acres of land about two miles west of the shrimp basin. The project will provide about 15-hundred jobs during construction and should create around 500 permanent positions.
Dietrich says the plant will be powered by hydrogen and should be the cleanest refinery on the planet. It will be the first new oil refinery built in the United States in nearly 50 years.
