CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Ingleside’s long-abandoned refinery site is finally getting a second act and this time, it’s a major money-maker.
Crews have begun clearing roughly 200 acres at Avenue B and Eighth Street, cutting decades-old brush to make way for a massive oil storage facility. The project, led by Ken Berry’s Port of Texas company, will include up to 20 million barrels of storage built in phases over the next five to seven years.
Berry tells 3NEWS the cleanup alone has taken seven years. When his company took over the land, they found shallow groundwater contamination left behind from the original Humble Oil refinery and tank farm, a site that dates back to 1928 and has been abandoned since 1945…