Port of Corpus Christi - Wed January 30, 2019
USACE OKs $92M Contract for Port of Corpus Christi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded a $92 million construction contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel (CCSC) from the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island, as part of the Channel Improvement Project (CIP)....
Jennifer McKevitt - CEG Correspondent - Tue January 29, 2019
Permian Basin's Latest Boom Requires New Infrastructure
As the United States surge in oil production moves from the Dakotas to Texas, new methods of transport have arisen in order to quickly move the output. In particular, an emerging system known as the Crude Oil Pipeline will transfer the oil directly from Orla, Texas, the seeming epicenter of the boom, to the Port of Corpus Christi for quick export....
AASHTO Journal - Tue January 29, 2019
USDOT Awards DART $908M Rail Financing Loan
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau provided the Dallas Area Rapid Transit or DART system with a $908 million Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing or RRIF direct loan on Dec....
El Paso Electric - Tue January 29, 2019
El Paso Electric Plans to Add Hundreds of MWs of Solar Energy, Battery Storage By 2023
El Paso Electric (EPE) has identified generation resource additions needed by the 2022-2023 summer peak season. The generation mix includes utility scale solar, battery storage and natural gas. Through initial resource planning studies, EPE determined that it requires additional generating capacity of approximately 50 MW by 2022 and 320 MW by 2023 for a total of 370 MW....
ACCIONA - Tue January 29, 2019
ACCIONA Begins Work on Its Ninth U.S. Wind Farm
ACCIONA Energía has started construction work on its second wind farm in Texas — the company's ninth in the United States — which will increase ACCIONA's United States wind power capacity to 866 megawatts (MW)....
Texas Department of Transportation - Tue January 29, 2019
TxDOT Projects in El Paso Ready to Wrap Up in 2019
2018 brought new additions to West El Paso, outlook shifts construction to Central, East El PasoDrivers in West El Paso may be tired of the orange barrels, but come 2019 much of that construction will be wrapping up and new projects will be under way in Central and East El Paso....
Harbor Bridge Project - Tue January 29, 2019
CCHB Crew Pours Concrete
Over the past month, crews on the south side of the Harbor Bridge project in Corpus Christi achieved a major milestone with the completion of the largest concrete pour to-date on the project. The pour was part of the construction of the footing for the south pylon and included 3,100 cu....
AGC - Tue January 29, 2019
Focus — 2019 Texas Contractors Be Wary
Texas contractors had a generally strong year in 2018 and can expect a repeat in 2019. However, there are three reasons for caution: rising materials costs, an ever-tightening labor market and increasing interest rates....
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners - Tue January 29, 2019
Quinbrook Closes on Ranchero Wind Farm Financing
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a specialist investor in low carbon energy infrastructure, announced that its portfolio company, Scout Clean Energy LLC has closed construction financing and tax equity commitments on the 300MW Ranchero Wind Farm located in Crockett County, Texas....
Associated Press - Wed January 09, 2019
Texas Landowners Fight Kinder Morgan's $2B Pipeline Proposal
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) — Landowners in Texas Hill Country are scrambling to figure out how to reroute or stop a $2 billion natural gas pipeline proposed by a Houston-based company. Kinder Morgan is surveying the Permian Highway Pipeline's possible route running 430 miles from the Permian Basin oil and gas field in West Texas to a location near Katy, a Houston suburb....
