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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Greater Houston area in Texas covers 10,000 square miles and nine counties, making it a hub of industrial activity. Industrial Info is tracking $15.8 billion worth of industrial projects that are under construction in the Houston metropolitan area, with half of the spend attributed to the Chemical Processing and Power industries.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Project Database can click here for a full list of detailed project reports.
Greater Houston is home to Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller counties.
Among the chemical projects underway are two high-dollar efforts in Harris County. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) (Houston, Texas), through its chemicals-focused subsidiary OxyChem, is performing a $1.1 billion conversion and expansion of its Battleground Chlor-Alkali Plant in La Porte. The project entails upgrading, modernizing and expanding equipment to increase the production of chlorine and caustic soda; caustic soda is a chemical used in everyday products, as well as food processing and sanitation.
Subscribers to the GMI Chemical Processing Database can read a detailed project report.
Meanwhile, the $715 million construction of Dow Incorporated's (NYSE:DOW) (Midland, Michigan) seventh polyethylene unit at its Plant B in Freeport is expected to wrap up in mid-2026. The unit is designed to produce an estimated 600,000 tons per year of polyethylene. Subscribers can click here to read the project report.
Greater Houston's power projects are highlighted by the addition of battery energy storage systems (BESS), including almost more than $1 billion worth of BESS projects that are expected to wrap up from May through the end of 2026. Two projects in Richmond in Fort Bend County, the second-largest county in the Greater Houston area, account for half of the spend.
Construction of RWE AG's (Essen, Germany) Crowned Heron 2 BESS and Aypa Power's standalone, 200-megawatt (MW) Bypass BESS is expected to wrap up by the end of the year. Aypa Power is a portfolio company of Blackstone Incorporated (NYSE:BX) (New York, New York). Subscribers can read more information on the Crowned Heron and Bypass BESS projects.
The Oil & Gas Production activity is buoyed by the addition of two natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionators in Mont Belvieu, about 30 miles east of Houston on the Gulf Coast. Mont Belvieu is a hub for the storage, processing and distribution of NGLs.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P.'s (NYSE:EPD) (Houston) Train 14 at its 1.37 million-barrel-per day (BBL/d) fractionation and storage complex will provide an additional 200,000 BBL/d of capacity. The project is expected to wrap up in the third quarter.
Targa Resources Corporation (NYSE:TRGP) (Houston) is in the process of adding an 11th train at its 940,000-BBL/d fractionator, to reach a total NGL capacity of 1,180,000 BBL/d. The train is expected to begin operating in the third quarter of 2026. Subscribers to the Oil & Gas Production Project Database can read more information on the Train 14 and Train 11 projects.
Greater Houston also is home to a life extension project at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve's (SPR) Bryan Mound site, one of four SPR storage sites along the Gulf Coast that store crude oil in underground caverns. Bryan Mound has an authorized capacity of roughly 250 million barrels per day. The project entails replacing equipment, piping, bridges and other systems, as part of an effort to extend the SPR's life by 25 years. Subscribers to the Terminals Project Database can click here to read more project information.
Another industry with more than $1 billion worth of investment is Pharmaceutical-Biotech, with half of the investment attributed to two new buildings at the South Research Park at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston's medical center.
Investment of $668 million is attributed to MD Anderson's Research Building 5, a 600,000-square-foot space dedicated to cancer research, drug discovery and development. Also underway and expected to wrap up by the end of 2026 is the 500,000-square-foot $400 million South Campus Vivarium (SCV) Centralization Building, which includes space for housing and handling laboratory animals used in biomedical research. Subscribers to the GMI Pharma-Bio Project Database can read more information on the Building 5 and SCV projects.
Subscribers to the GMI Project Database can click here for a full list of detailed reports for projects mentioned in this article, and click here for a full list of related plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) platform helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking more than 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Project Database can click here for a full list of detailed project reports.
Greater Houston is home to Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller counties.
Among the chemical projects underway are two high-dollar efforts in Harris County. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) (Houston, Texas), through its chemicals-focused subsidiary OxyChem, is performing a $1.1 billion conversion and expansion of its Battleground Chlor-Alkali Plant in La Porte. The project entails upgrading, modernizing and expanding equipment to increase the production of chlorine and caustic soda; caustic soda is a chemical used in everyday products, as well as food processing and sanitation.
Subscribers to the GMI Chemical Processing Database can read a detailed project report.
Meanwhile, the $715 million construction of Dow Incorporated's (NYSE:DOW) (Midland, Michigan) seventh polyethylene unit at its Plant B in Freeport is expected to wrap up in mid-2026. The unit is designed to produce an estimated 600,000 tons per year of polyethylene. Subscribers can click here to read the project report.
Greater Houston's power projects are highlighted by the addition of battery energy storage systems (BESS), including almost more than $1 billion worth of BESS projects that are expected to wrap up from May through the end of 2026. Two projects in Richmond in Fort Bend County, the second-largest county in the Greater Houston area, account for half of the spend.
Construction of RWE AG's (Essen, Germany) Crowned Heron 2 BESS and Aypa Power's standalone, 200-megawatt (MW) Bypass BESS is expected to wrap up by the end of the year. Aypa Power is a portfolio company of Blackstone Incorporated (NYSE:BX) (New York, New York). Subscribers can read more information on the Crowned Heron and Bypass BESS projects.
The Oil & Gas Production activity is buoyed by the addition of two natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionators in Mont Belvieu, about 30 miles east of Houston on the Gulf Coast. Mont Belvieu is a hub for the storage, processing and distribution of NGLs.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P.'s (NYSE:EPD) (Houston) Train 14 at its 1.37 million-barrel-per day (BBL/d) fractionation and storage complex will provide an additional 200,000 BBL/d of capacity. The project is expected to wrap up in the third quarter.
Targa Resources Corporation (NYSE:TRGP) (Houston) is in the process of adding an 11th train at its 940,000-BBL/d fractionator, to reach a total NGL capacity of 1,180,000 BBL/d. The train is expected to begin operating in the third quarter of 2026. Subscribers to the Oil & Gas Production Project Database can read more information on the Train 14 and Train 11 projects.
Greater Houston also is home to a life extension project at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve's (SPR) Bryan Mound site, one of four SPR storage sites along the Gulf Coast that store crude oil in underground caverns. Bryan Mound has an authorized capacity of roughly 250 million barrels per day. The project entails replacing equipment, piping, bridges and other systems, as part of an effort to extend the SPR's life by 25 years. Subscribers to the Terminals Project Database can click here to read more project information.
Another industry with more than $1 billion worth of investment is Pharmaceutical-Biotech, with half of the investment attributed to two new buildings at the South Research Park at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston's medical center.
Investment of $668 million is attributed to MD Anderson's Research Building 5, a 600,000-square-foot space dedicated to cancer research, drug discovery and development. Also underway and expected to wrap up by the end of 2026 is the 500,000-square-foot $400 million South Campus Vivarium (SCV) Centralization Building, which includes space for housing and handling laboratory animals used in biomedical research. Subscribers to the GMI Pharma-Bio Project Database can read more information on the Building 5 and SCV projects.
Subscribers to the GMI Project Database can click here for a full list of detailed reports for projects mentioned in this article, and click here for a full list of related plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) platform helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking more than 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
