Opportunities

An unconstrained canvas

One platform, seven commodity paths. Each opens into a detail panel — market outlook, what the site brings, what a project needs, and its investment profile.

The local landscape

A plug-and-play feedstock network

The surrounding hub of NGL facilities, refineries, terminals and petrochemical plants de-risks supply chains for new projects. Refineries sit in the Inner Harbor — none in Ingleside.

Refining — Corpus Christi area

Facility	Crude capacity	Feedstock
Flint Hills Resources	~268 MBbl/d	Eagle Ford
Valero	~282 MBbl/d	Sweet / sour via channel and pipeline
Citgo	~168 MBbl/d	Heavy sour — Canada, Mexico, Venezuela
Flint Hills (2nd unit)	~71 MBbl/d	Eagle Ford
Buckeye Partners	60 MBbl/d	Permian & Eagle Ford — asphalt, bunker, naphtha
Oneok	50 MBbl/d	Texas crude — blendstock, distillates, gasoline
Pin Oak	35 MBbl/d	Terminal

Gas, NGL and chemicals

LNGCheniere Corpus Christi — ~18 Mtpa, two berths, ~10 Bcf of storageThe sole major incumbent
Fractionation275+ MBbl/d combined in the area — 170, 77 and 29 MBbl/d plants
Ethylene~1.8 Mt/y cracker at Ingleside with MEG, EO and LLDPE derivatives; merchant ethylene line to Markham storage
Chlor-alkaliEDC ~2.2 Mt · VCM ~1.1 Mt · caustic soda, chlorine, HCl
AromaticsBenzene, cumene, xylenes, toluene, paraxylene at Inner Harbor refineries
NeighborsCheniere, Flint Hills, Enbridge, Energy Transfer, ONEOK, OxyChem, Valero, Vopak, Chemours, Gibson Energy, Kiewit, ArcelorMittal, CIMBAR, Subsea 7

Industrial plant on the Corpus Christi Ship Channel — Corpus Christi Ship Channel — the industrial cluster new projects plug into

Storage, blending and VLCC export

Crude oil

Investment profile

Strong advantages · Low capital intensity · Low risk

Market outlook

Permian output reached 5.6 MMBbl/d in 2024 and is expected near 6.7 MMBbl/d by end-2025; with flat domestic demand, a 6+ MMBbl/d export opportunity opens by 2030. The Gulf Coast carries ~97% of U.S. crude exports and Corpus Christi ~60% of the Gulf Coast's — 2.4 MMBbl/d in 2025.

What the site brings

Connectivity to Gray Oak, Cactus and the other lines carrying Permian and Eagle Ford barrels to the coast
Berry Island is one of only two VLCC-capable terminal sites on these channels
Exxon Tract and Expansion Acreage carry Special Use permitting for ~30 MMBbl of tankage in total

What a project needs

A minimum of seven ~320 MBbl tanks to support 2 MMBbl VLCC loading
Pipeline from the upland tracts to the docks over the existing rights-of-way
Deepwater berths, marine loading and utilities

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Liquefaction, bunkering and export

LNG

Investment profile

Strong advantages · High capital intensity · Low risk

Market outlook

U.S. LNG exports set a monthly record of 9.33 million tonnes in August 2025. Gulf Coast export capacity is expected to reach ~23.8 Bcf/d by 2028, Asia represents nearly 90% of worldwide LNG demand growth through 2040, and ~75 Mtpa of import capacity is proposed or under construction across Latin America.

What the site brings

Proximity to the lowest-cost gas basins in the world and >4.5 Bcf/d of inbound capacity
Only one major incumbent in Corpus Christi (~18 Mtpa, two berths, ~10 Bcf of storage)
A prime location for LNG bunkering and mid-scale LNG given proximity to Latin America

What a project needs

Large-scale process, refrigeration, power and control systems
Federal, state and local approvals; long-term offtake and gas supply
Multiple gas supply connection points available

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Ethylene derivatives and polyethylene export

Petrochemicals

Investment profile

Strong advantages · Low–moderate capital intensity · Low risk

Market outlook

Global population grows by 1.5+ billion over 25 years and chemical demand is expected to outpace GDP. Polyethylene — 62% of U.S. ethylene demand — is forecast at ~2.8% annual growth; the U.S. cost advantage on delivered China pellets exceeded $400/MT in 2024. Corpus Christi is the #1 ethylene cash-cost position.

What the site brings

Low-cost ethane feedstock yielding globally competitive PE
Corpus Christi Ship Channel, third in the U.S. by tonnage, served by a deep-sea fleet for competitive freight
Three Class I carriers for outbound rail

What a project needs

~60 acres for a PE export facility; polymerisation, pelletising, bagging and warehousing
Rail spur to the Union Pacific mainline with siding; container-loading marine infrastructure
For MEG: EO/MEG unit, bulk tankage and liquid marine loading

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Ammonia, methanol, SAF and CCUS

Low-carbon fuels

Investment profile

Strong advantages · Moderate–high capital intensity · Low–moderate risk

Market outlook

Ammonia demand is forecast to outpace supply by ~8.3 million tonnes over five years; methanol grows ~2.5% a year with marine bunkering emerging (21.5 Mt by 2050). The U.S. is well placed for SAF, and 45Q credits reward carbon capture.

What the site brings

Connectivity to one of the lowest-cost feedstock regions in the world
Berry Island and the Expansion Acreage offer buffer zones for the safety areas ammonia and methanol require
Potential access to carbon sequestration and DOE loan programs

What a project needs

World-scale plant (ammonia ~2.5 Mtpa; methanol 1.4–1.7 Mtpa), gas feedstock connection, CO₂ pipeline to storage
Deep-sea, barge and rail shipping for finished product

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An unconstrained canvas

Crude oil

LNG

NGL

Petrochemicals

Refined products

Low-carbon fuels

Critical minerals

A plug-and-play feedstock network

Refining — Corpus Christi area

Gas, NGL and chemicals