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A Houston-based green fuel production company recently announced plans to develop new facilities in Beaumont and Pasadena.
Timothy Vail, CEO of Arbor Gas, said the move to expand operations would help facilitate green fuel production for all consumers.
“The Arbor Gas team is extremely excited to build its first plant in the City of Beaumont. Both the City of Beaumont and Jefferson County have been very welcoming and supportive of our development efforts,” Vail said. “Just as the Spindletop area opened the door to the petroleum revolution in 1901, Arbor Gas and the City of Beaumont are reinventing the way transportation fuels are produced, and decarbonizing transportation fuel for all consumers of gasoline.”
A 53-acre site in Beaumont will be home to the company's first renewable gasoline plant, to be known as the "Spindletop Plant," according to a press release.
According to Arbor, the plant will produce approximately 1,000 barrels per day of renewable gasoline to be sold on the renewable fuels market.
The Spindletop Plant is expected to begin construction in the first quarter of 2022 and be finished by 2023 and then the company will look to build a manufacturing facility in Pasadena to continue its growth, according to Arbor.
“The 'Red Bluff Road' site is ideally located in the Bayport industrial district near large consumers of hydrogen,” according to Arbor. “This site offers a unique location to produce renewable hydrogen on an industrial scale with the ability to efficiently transport the product via pipeline directly to end-users.”
According to a press release, the company’s objective is to construct and “own a portfolio of cost-effective, safe and reliably sourced woody biomass to renewable gasoline and green hydrogen plants around the world. With an initial focus on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast” by employing a distinctive blend of “intellectual capital, technology, financing and project execution skills.”