{"id":178702,"date":"2026-07-20T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=178702"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:40:32","slug":"air-liquide-to-invest-over-200m-usd-to-support-chemical-manufacturing-expansion-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/air-liquide-to-invest-over-200m-usd-to-support-chemical-manufacturing-expansion-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Liquide to invest over 200M USD to support chemical manufacturing expansion in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\u00a9 Air Liquide<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The Air Liquide Group has reached a major milestone in its long-standing relationship with Oxea by expanding its production capabilities at Oxea\u2019s site in Bay City, Texas in the United States. This strategic 200 million US dollar investment involves the construction of a new, high-efficiency Partial Oxidation (POX<\/sub>) unit, underscores Air Liquide\u2019s technological leadership and commitment to capturing growth in a key industrial basin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Group will build a new innovative high-efficiency Partial Oxidation (POX<\/sub>) unit scheduled for the beginning of 2029. The unit will provide reliable, large-scale syngas and low-carbon hydrogen production to support Oxea’s rising chemical demand, but also the expansion of its oxo-alcohols and performance chemicals operations, leveraging its long standing presence at one of the most feedstock-advantaged sites in the U.S. Gulf Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to an\u00a0original design\u00a0<\/strong>by Air Liquide\u2019s engineering teams, the new plant comes with\u00a0a high environmental efficiency.<\/strong>\u00a0An innovative carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>)\u00a0recycling loop enables the recirculation of CO\u2082 back into Oxea\u2019s reactor to optimize syngas composition and production. The facility will partially replace some existing facilities and will reduce the Group\u2019s net CO2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions by approximately 64,000 tonnes per year in spite of providing additional capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By expanding its robust pipeline network and industrial footprint in the U.S. Gulf Coast, Air Liquide continues to support its partners further expand in the United States,<\/strong> and seize<\/strong> opportunities in key industrial basins with low-carbon, competitive, innovative and reliable solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthieu Giard,\u00a0Group Executive Committee member<\/strong>, notably in charge of supervising operations in the Americas, stated:\u00a0“This project represents a significant opportunity to align industrial growth and efficiency while demonstrating that competitive solutions can also support climate objectives. We are proud to invest alongside industrial partners who are actively expanding in the U.S. market. By deploying new technologies and CO2<\/sub>\u00a0recycling capabilities in Bay City, Air Liquide is delivering a solution that ensures both superior reliability and efficiency for our customer.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Air Liquide Group has reached a major milestone in its long-standing relationship with Oxea by expanding its production capabilities at Oxea\u2019s site in Bay City, Texas in the United States. This strategic 200 million US dollar investment involves the construction of a new, high-efficiency Partial Oxidation (POX) unit, underscores Air Liquide\u2019s technological leadership and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":178717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"New innovative high-efficiency Partial Oxidation (POX) unit is scheduled for the beginning of 2029 to be built","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[10744,12330,10416,15511,12450,10743],"supplier":[1587,6517],"class_list":["post-178702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-carboncapture","tag-ccu","tag-circulareconomy","tag-greenhydrogen","tag-syngas","tag-useco2","supplier-air-liquide-group","supplier-oxea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178718,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178702\/revisions\/178718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178702"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=178702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}