Industry ACER planning new $2B oil refinery, makes bid for Shell’s Convent facility By Deanna B. Narveson - May 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailPrint Baton Rouge-based American Clean Energy Refining today announced its plan to construct a new, $2 billion oil and gas refinery near the former Shell facility in Convent. The refinery will provid… Already an INSIDER? Sign in.