WESTLAKE, La. (KPLC) - Sasol recently announced layoffs at its Lake Charles chemical manufacturing plant. The South African company announced in 2024 that it would be restructuring in response to ...

Bulgaria has halted Russian crude imports and also restricted exports of all refined products produced from Russian crude from its sole refinery. It has also imposed a 60% tax on the refinery's ...

Stardust Power (Nasdaq: SDST), a US battery-grade lithium product developer, has officially broken ground on its $1.2 billion lithium refinery in Oklahoma, which will be one of the largest in the US.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Historic cold temperatures were recorded in Lake Charles overnight. COLD WEATHER RESOURCES: Temperatures dropped into the single digits Wednesday morning on the heels of ...

A temperature of 6 degrees was measured, the second-lowest ever recorded. Lake Charles' lowest temperature on record is 3 degrees on Feb. 12, 1899. Records go back to 1895. We can thank clear skies, ...

Britain's head of state King Charles III sent a personal message of congratulations to President Trump on his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The message reflected the "enduring ...

Citgo operates three refineries, including the Corpus Christi Refinery in Texas, which has a capacity of 167,000 barrels per day (bpd). The Lake Charles Refinery in Louisiana and the Lemont ...

Chad Casey captured this footage showing snow whipping around the city of Lake Charles on Tuesday, settling on palm trees, and creating snowdrifts. Tuesday marked the first time the National Weather ...

For the first time ever, Lake Charles and much of Acadiana are under a blizzard warning as snow blankets the area Tuesday morning. The National Weather Service issued the advisory just before 6 ...

This footage from live traffic cameras shows conditions on roads around Lake Charles and Sulphur. By 9 am, between 1.5 and 2 inches of snow had been reported in various areas, according to the ...

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is planning to import more crude oil as supply from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited becomes insufficient for fuel production at the $20bn Lekki-based ...

Weaker fuel demand and depressed refining margins in 2024 resulted in the first annual decline in China’s refinery throughput in over 20 years, excluding the pandemic lockdown year of 2022 ...