Trump announced a historic $300 billion oil refinery project in Brownsville, Texas, the first new U.S. refinery in nearly 50 years, promising thousands of jobs.

With 131 refineries currently in operation, the United States has long been the global leader in oil processing capacity, but has lost ground because of a combination of an aging infrastructure and ...

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Rendering for America First Refining Facility in Brownsville. Among the many benefits of the $300-billion America First Refinery under construction at the Port of Brownsville will be that it is ...

The highly complex refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast could resume processing heavy Venezuelan crude oil in the years following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, possibly pushing out ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of Texas engineering professor Hugh Daigle about why the U.S. imports most of the oil it consumes despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters.