By DAN WALLACH
March 6, 2010
A Baton Rouge, La., company called Performance Contractors last week won a contract from the Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur refinery to build a large piece of the refinery’s crude expansion project.
Motiva did not reveal the amount of Performance’s contract that accounts for a portion of the estimated $7 billion project that will double the refinery’s capacity to 600,000 barrels of crude oil refining per day.
Motiva’s expansion project director Nick Smallwood has estimated that the project will employ about 6,500 construction workers at its peak. The refinery expects activity to intensify this year.