Lloyd Webre Sr. (1913-1984) founded Texas Brine Corporation on March 12, 1946, but the company’s roots go a generation deeper. His father, Camille Joseph “C.J.” Webre (1883-1937), was general manager of the United Salt Corporation, a company launched in 1928 to commercially produce salt at operations near Houston.
Lloyd Webre Sr. (1913-1984) founded Texas Brine Corporation on March 12, 1946, but the company’s roots go a generation deeper. His father, Camille Joseph “C.J.” Webre (1883-1937), was general manager of the United Salt Corporation, a company launched in 1928 to commercially produce salt at operations near Houston.
The Hockley Salt Mine is still in operation almost 100 years later. United Salt has expanded its operations across the country and is an affiliated company to Texas Brine.
Entrepreneur Lloyd Webre Sr. founds Texas Brine Corporation with his father-in-law Robert E. Paine Jr. and uncle-in-law M.G. Wogan by incorporation with the Texas Secretary of State. The company acquires its first property, almost 16 acres on the Pierce Junction Salt Dome in Harris County. The company first delivers brine to customers by truck.
Champion Paper and Fibre Company signs an agreement for Texas Brine to supply brine from Pierce Junction by pipeline to the customer’s pulp and paper mill in Pasadena, Texas.
Beginning in 1952, interest from potential storage customers, including Ellis Transport Corporation, spurred Webre and his team to research and develop the company’s underground storage business. That year, the Houston Post newspaper reported that additional salt dome storage would be a “blessing” to the energy industry.
When Arnie, age 26, returned from service in 1952, Lloyd hired him as the company’s salesman. Arnie worked for Texas Brine for 47 years, succeeding his brother Lloyd as president in 1980.
Texas Brine secures salt leases at Spindletop Salt Dome in Beaumont, Texas, leading to brine supply opportunities with Jefferson Chemical Company, Texas-U.S. Chemical Company and Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc.
Texas Brine expands its operations to Louisiana by leasing a portion of Napoleonville Salt Dome in Grand Bayou, La. This will lead to a brine supply agreement with Georgia-Pacific Corporation in 1972.
Texas Brine is instrumental in helping to form the Solution Mining Research Institute (SMRI) to promote research and education for the international brine production and storage industry.
Texas Brine expands further south in Texas with land leases of Markham Salt Dome property in Matagorda County, Texas. New brine customers include Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1967 and E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company in 1974. Texas Brine further expands its holdings around Markham Salt Dome with acquisitions of 160 salt mineral acres in 1988 and 297 surface acres in 1992.
Texas Brine moves into New York State by signing an agreement with Hooker Chemical Corporation to operate its Dale Brine Field and supply brine to its plant in Niagara Falls. Texas Brine’s New York operations expanded in 1985 with an agreement to supply brine to the Niachlor plant in Niagara Falls. This is the only Texas Brine plant built to recycle depleted brine back to the brine field for re-saturation to conserve water using two 60-mile-long pipelines.
Texas Brine acquires United Brine Pipeline Corporation, a common carrier pipeline company. Today, it is a separate entity that operates three lines. Two deliver brine from Markham Salt Dome to Occidental Chemical Corporation’s plant at Ingleside, Texas, and Formosa Plastics Corporation’s plant at Point Comfort, Texas. The third line delivers brine from Barbers Hill Salt Dome to the Pure Salt evaporation facility in Baytown, TX.
Texas Brine further expands into Louisiana with a lease for Chacahoula Salt Dome in Lafourche Parish. This opens the opportunity to supply brine to B.F. Goodrich subsidiary Convent Chemical Corporation’s plant in St. James Parish.
Arnie Webre succeeds Lloyd Webre as president of Texas Brine.
Texas Brine expands its Markham Salt Dome operations to provide brine to Formosa Plastics Corporation’s Point Comfort, Texas, plant. In 2001, Formosa Hydrocarbons Company contracts with Texas Brine to store natural gas liquids.
Texas Brine expands its assets at Pierce Junction with acquisitions from Enterprise Products Company, including 54 acres, salt and underground storage leases, storage wells, brine pits, a water well, pipelines and other infrastructure.
Leasing Barbers Hill Salt Dome in Mont Belvieu, Texas, opens an opportunity to provide brine for Bayer Corporation’s new chlor-alkali plant in Baytown. The construction project includes the first proprietary brine treatment facility in Mont Belvieu and the first salt evaporator on Bayer’s property. Today, Pure Salt Baytown, LLC, owns and operates the assets and sells a portion of the salt to United Salt Baytown, LLC’s dry salt processing and packaging plant.
After executing a lease for White Castle Salt Dome, Texas Brine produces and transports treated brine to Shintech Inc.’s new chemical plant in Plaquemine, La., beginning in 2008. Through two expansions, Texas Brine will triple its supply capacity to Shintech by 2022.
Since buying 16 acres of land at Pierce Junction Salt Dome in Harris County in 1946, Texas Brine and its related entities have grown to 11 operating locations in four states, more than 400 miles of pipelines and 13 truck loading racks.
TBC Sales and Distribution, LLC, a subsidiary of Texas Brine, installs three additional truck racks, bringing the total to 13 truck facilities. The company also adds its first barge-loading location on the Mississippi River.
Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc., and Texas Brine sign a memorandum of understanding to develop large-scale, long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the United States. Long-duration hydrogen storage is a key enabling technology for transitioning to a net-zero carbon energy future.
Texas Brine and Pure Salt Baytown, LLC secured certified renewable Texas wind and solar resources from TXU Energy to cover their energy usage at four Gulf Coast locations. Over the life of the contracts, approximately 60 million kilowatt hours of certified clean, renewable energy will be supplied to Texas Brine and Pure Salt Baytown, equivalent to the reduction of approximately 26,000 metric tons in CO2 emissions, or the annual electricity consumption of 4,670 homes.
Lloyd Webre Sr. (1913-1984) founded Texas Brine Corporation on March 12, 1946, but the company’s roots go a generation deeper. His father, Camille Joseph “C.J.” Webre (1883-1937), was general manager of the United Salt Corporation, a company launched in 1928 to commercially produce salt at operations near Houston.
The Hockley Salt Mine is still in operation almost 100 years later. United Salt has expanded its operations across the country and is an affiliated company to Texas Brine.
Entrepreneur Lloyd Webre Sr. founds Texas Brine Corporation with his father-in-law Robert E. Paine Jr. and uncle-in-law M.G. Wogan by incorporation with the Texas Secretary of State. The company acquires its first property, almost 16 acres on the Pierce Junction Salt Dome in Harris County. The company first delivers brine to customers by truck.
Champion Paper and Fibre Company signs an agreement for Texas Brine to supply brine from Pierce Junction by pipeline to the customer’s pulp and paper mill in Pasadena, Texas.
Beginning in 1952, interest from potential storage customers, including Ellis Transport Corporation, spurred Webre and his team to research and develop the company’s underground storage business. That year, the Houston Post newspaper reported that additional salt dome storage would be a “blessing” to the energy industry.
When Arnie, age 26, returned from service in 1952, Lloyd hired him as the company’s salesman. Arnie worked for Texas Brine for 47 years, succeeding his brother Lloyd as president in 1980.
Texas Brine secures salt leases at Spindletop Salt Dome in Beaumont, Texas, leading to brine supply opportunities with Jefferson Chemical Company, Texas-U.S. Chemical Company and Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc.
Texas Brine expands its operations to Louisiana by leasing a portion of Napoleonville Salt Dome in Grand Bayou, La. This will lead to a brine supply agreement with Georgia-Pacific Corporation in 1972.
Texas Brine is instrumental in helping to form the Solution Mining Research Institute (SMRI) to promote research and education for the international brine production and storage industry.
Texas Brine expands further south in Texas with land leases of Markham Salt Dome property in Matagorda County, Texas. New brine customers include Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1967 and E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company in 1974. Texas Brine further expands its holdings around Markham Salt Dome with acquisitions of 160 salt mineral acres in 1988 and 297 surface acres in 1992.
Texas Brine moves into New York State by signing an agreement with Hooker Chemical Corporation to operate its Dale Brine Field and supply brine to its plant in Niagara Falls. Texas Brine’s New York operations expanded in 1985 with an agreement to supply brine to the Niachlor plant in Niagara Falls. This is the only Texas Brine plant built to recycle depleted brine back to the brine field for re-saturation to conserve water using two 60-mile-long pipelines.
Texas Brine acquires United Brine Pipeline Corporation, a common carrier pipeline company. Today, it is a separate entity that operates three lines. Two deliver brine from Markham Salt Dome to Occidental Chemical Corporation’s plant at Ingleside, Texas, and Formosa Plastics Corporation’s plant at Point Comfort, Texas. The third line delivers brine from Barbers Hill Salt Dome to the Pure Salt evaporation facility in Baytown, TX.
Texas Brine further expands into Louisiana with a lease for Chacahoula Salt Dome in Lafourche Parish. This opens the opportunity to supply brine to B.F. Goodrich subsidiary Convent Chemical Corporation’s plant in St. James Parish.
Arnie Webre succeeds Lloyd Webre as president of Texas Brine.
Texas Brine expands its Markham Salt Dome operations to provide brine to Formosa Plastics Corporation’s Point Comfort, Texas, plant. In 2001, Formosa Hydrocarbons Company contracts with Texas Brine to store natural gas liquids.
Texas Brine expands its assets at Pierce Junction with acquisitions from Enterprise Products Company, including 54 acres, salt and underground storage leases, storage wells, brine pits, a water well, pipelines and other infrastructure.
Leasing Barbers Hill Salt Dome in Mont Belvieu, Texas, opens an opportunity to provide brine for Bayer Corporation’s new chlor-alkali plant in Baytown. The construction project includes the first proprietary brine treatment facility in Mont Belvieu and the first salt evaporator on Bayer’s property. Today, Pure Salt Baytown, LLC, owns and operates the assets and sells a portion of the salt to United Salt Baytown, LLC’s dry salt processing and packaging plant.
After executing a lease for White Castle Salt Dome, Texas Brine produces and transports treated brine to Shintech Inc.’s new chemical plant in Plaquemine, La., beginning in 2008. Through two expansions, Texas Brine will triple its supply capacity to Shintech by 2022.
Since buying 16 acres of land at Pierce Junction Salt Dome in Harris County in 1946, Texas Brine and its related entities have grown to 11 operating locations in four states, more than 400 miles of pipelines and 13 truck loading racks.
TBC Sales and Distribution, LLC, a subsidiary of Texas Brine, installs three additional truck racks, bringing the total to 13 truck facilities. The company also adds its first barge-loading location on the Mississippi River.
Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc., and Texas Brine sign a memorandum of understanding to develop large-scale, long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the United States. Long-duration hydrogen storage is a key enabling technology for transitioning to a net-zero carbon energy future.
Texas Brine and Pure Salt Baytown, LLC secured certified renewable Texas wind and solar resources from TXU Energy to cover their energy usage at four Gulf Coast locations. Over the life of the contracts, approximately 60 million kilowatt hours of certified clean, renewable energy will be supplied to Texas Brine and Pure Salt Baytown, equivalent to the reduction of approximately 26,000 metric tons in CO2 emissions, or the annual electricity consumption of 4,670 homes.
Responsible Care
Texas Brine Company and its related entities have developed and continue to strengthen our award-winning environmental, health and safety culture based on Responsible Care, the chemical industry performance standard. As members of the American Chemistry Council, we subscribe to the Guiding Principles of Responsible Care, which encompass environment, health, safety, security and community outreach.
