Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard

The yard is located on an island in the Neches River and upstream of the Sabine Pass that grants access to the Gulf of Mexico.

The yard built barges and rail cars and also operated under the name Petroleum Iron Works at the site.

For World War II the yard build tugboats and barges as part of the emergency shipbuilding program.

In 2017 Chicago Bridge & Iron Company closed the yard due to damage from Hurricane Harvey, ending work for 455 employees.

In the interwar period the yard built over 200 vessels, mostly for companies in the oil business, with Texaco being the biggest customer by number of ships.

The sited had fabricated and transport large-scale process modules, shop-built ships and large steel plate subassemblies since 1982.

Pennsylvania Shipyards in Beaumont, Texas. C1 Cargo vessels under construction with welding barges are moored.
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc. on the Neches River in Texas in 1943
USS Sangay (AE-10) , a C1-A built by Pennsylvania Shipyards, with a deckload of contact mines in 1943