Complete the Diamond Green Diesel project at Port Arthur (DGD 3)
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 29 Jul 2021
- Due
- 30 Jun 2023
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Advanced the expected completion of the Diamond Green Diesel project at Port Arthur (DGD 3) to the first half of 2023”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Later 10-K and 10-Q filings state the DGD Port Arthur plant was completed and began operations in Q4 2022, before the first-half 2023 deadline.
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A Valero Energy 8-K filed 2023-07-27
“the startup of the DGD Port Arthur plant in the fourth quarter of 2022” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Valero Energy 10-Q filed 2023-10-26
“the completion of the new DGD Port Arthur Plant that commenced operations in the fourth quarter of 2022” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Valero Energy 10-K filed 2024-02-22
“in the fourth quarter of 2022, we completed construction of DGD’s second renewable diesel plant” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +1.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (26 Jul 2023 to 31 Jul 2023). What this measures
Checked 15 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift +550 days
- 4 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 29 Jul 2021
Deadline 30 Jun 2023 (“first half of 2023”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 27 Jan 2022
Deadline 31 Mar 2023 (“first quarter of 2023”) · wording expected
“The DGD project at Valero’s Port Arthur refinery (DGD 3)... is now expected to commence operations in the first quarter of 2023”
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Version 3 · stated 26 Apr 2022
Deadline 31 Dec 2022 (“the fourth quarter of 2022”) · wording expected
“Accelerated the expected completion of the Diamond Green Diesel project at Port Arthur (DGD 3) to the fourth quarter of 2022”
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Version 4 · stated 1 May 2024
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“fourth quarter of 2024”) · wording expected
“DGD Port Arthur SAF Project • Large-scale SAF project at the recently constructed DGD Port Arthur plant is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2024”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Construction
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- Diamond Green Diesel project at Port Arthur (DGD 3)
- Where
- Port Arthur
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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