Article: Refinery construction, expansion booming in Corpus Christi area. (petroleum industry in Texas)

CORPUS CHRISTI -- Oil refiners in this Gulf Coast community have announced plans to build, improve and expand their refineries to the tune of $1.4 billion.

Koch Industries Inc. announced an expansion of $600 to $700 million. Citgo Petroleum Corp. plans to spend $480 million to upgrade its refinery. And Valero Energy Corp., which just finished a hydrocracker/reformer unit worth $290 million, held a ground-breaking ceremony for a $230 million methyl tertiary butyl ether plant.

"It's one of the biggest industrial construction periods in this city's history," says Mary Rhodes, Corpus Christi's mayor.

Although Corpus Christi's five refineries ...

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