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- Refiner to Pay $2.2 Million for Environmental Violations
- To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice Environmental and Natural Resources Division, +1-202-514-2007; or U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, +1-202-564-4355, TDD: +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Williams Refining Co., the former owner and operator of a Memphis, Tenn., petroleum refinery, has agreed to pay $2.2 million in civil penalties to...
- Research articles 2007-03-13
- Environment
- Environment: The Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced regulations last week that will lower airborne pollutants over the next 25 years. Most significantly for oil refineries, the rules require that benzene levels be cut. On average, benzene made up roughly 1% of US gas in 2004. This proportion will be brought...
- Research articles 2007-02-15
- REPORT: TEXAS PLANTS GUSH EMISSIONS, ESCAPE FINES
- Over the course of three days in January, the BASF-Atofina ethylene plant in Port Arthur, Texas, released more than 65 tons of hazardous volatile organic compounds VOCs into the atmosphere. That same month, the Premcor refinery nearby released 208 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2); nearly 25 tons of VOCs and...
- Research articles 2002-11-04
- Emissions Figures Are High for Southeast Texas Refineries, Chemical Plants.
- The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--PORT ARTHUR, Texas--Malfunctions in five refineries and chemical plants in south Jefferson County resulted in excessive emissions totaling more than 4.2 million pounds from January through September, a private environmental research group...
- Research articles 2002-10-18
- Petrochemical Firm Guilty of Hiding Pollution Violations at Texas Oil Refinery.
- By James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 10--CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas--A subsidiary of the petrochemical giant Koch Industries Inc. was convicted Monday of concealing environmental violations at its oil refinery here and assessed the most expensive criminal pollution...
- Research articles 2001-04-10
- Kansas Oil Company Executives to Testify at Corpus Christi, Texas, Trial.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Oct. 6--Koch Industries and four of its senior employees are scheduled to appear today in federal court in Corpus Christi, Texas. They are charged with deliberately violating air pollution laws and conspiring to lie about problems at a Texas refinery. Koch calls...
- Research articles 2000-10-08
- Texas Grand Jury Indicts Wichita, Kan.-Based Petroleum Firm.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Sep. 29--WASHINGTON--A federal grand jury in Texas returned a 97-count indictment Thursday against Koch Industries, its petroleum subsidiary and four employees, charging that they violated federal environmental laws at a Corpus Christi refinery and made false statements to regulators. Justice Department officials described...
- Research articles 2000-09-29
- EPA: Operators of Vicksburg refinery indicted for violating environmental laws.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-7 September 1998-EPA: Operators of Vicksburg refinery indicted for violating environmental laws C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:040998 M&S Petroleum Inc., which formerly operated the Barrett Refinery in Vicksburg, Miss., and three of its officers were charged on Aug. 27,...
- Research articles 1998-09-07
- Reilly Tar and Chemical site clean-up:
- The Environmental Protection Agency EPA and Reilly Industries Inc. have signed a clean-up agreement for the 121-acre (49 ha) Reilly Tar and Chemical Superfund site in Indiana. The firm operated a coal tar refinery and creosote wood treatment plant at the site from 1921-72. It still...
- Research articles 1995-04-01
- BP Benzene Recovery Unit Is Set for Startup.
- CONSTRUCTION WORK is scheduled to start at BP Oil UK Ltd.'s benzene recovery project at the company's Grangemouth, Scotland, refinery in October of this year, aiming for an on stream date at the end of the second quarter 1999. The project is expe...
- Research articles 1998-07-20
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- Idemitsu, Mitsui, Sumitomo to restart mothballed benzene unit.(Idemitsu Kosan Company Ltd.)(Mitsui Chemical Co.)(Sumitomo Chemical Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
- Refining company Idemitsu Kosan Tokyo has signed an [yen]8-billion ($72 million) agreement with Mitsui Chemicals and Sumitomo Chemical under which the companies will jointly restart a mothballed light naphtha reformer at Idemitsu's Chiba, Japan refinery, and offtake benzene and other products from the plant, Mitsui ...
- Research articles 2004-10-13
- JORDAN PETROLEUM REFINERY CO RECORDS 10% WITHDRAWAL IN SALES
- According to Al-Khaleej newspaper (November 10, 2004), Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company reported that the volume of its sales, including all fuel, benzene and gas brands, decreased to 3.534 million tons in the first nine months of the current year, down from 3.927 million tons in the corresponding period last year....
- Research articles 2004-11-14
- JORDAN: JORDAN PETROLEUM REFINERY CO RECORDS 10% WITHDRAWAL IN SALES.(Brief Article)
- According to Al-Khaleej newspaper (November 10, 2004), Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company reported that the volume of its sales, including all fuel, benzene and gas brands, decreased to 3.534 million tons in the first nine months of the current year, down from 3.927 million tons in the...
- Research articles 2004-11-14
- PHILIPPINES: Invitation to bid on construction of $100,000,000 refinery unit is tentatively scheduled to be issued in late 2002 including the possible addition of an isomerization unit, PETRON CORP. [Philippines] - Order #: 037402.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local PETRON CORP. currently operates an 180,000-barrel per day (b/d) refinery in Bataan that has 3 crude distillation units. However, the government recently enacted new clean air standards that require that benzene and other aromatics in gasoline be reduced to...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Indian oil starts up LAB plant.(Linear Alkyl Benzene)(Brief Article)
- State-owned Indian Oil Corp. (IOC; New Delhi) says it has commissioned a Rs12.78-billion ($276 million) linear alkyl benzene LAB plant at its refinery at Baroda, India. The 120,000-m.t./year plant is the largest single-tram kerosene-to-LAB unit in the world, IOC says. The plant uses UOP's process. The...
- Research articles 2004-08-18
- EPA Proposes Amendments for Refinery Emissions
- The U.S. EPA is seeking comments on proposed amendments to air toxic standards for petroleum refineries and benzene waste operations.The U.S. EPA is seeking comments on proposed amendments to air toxic standards for petroleum refineries and benzene waste operations.
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- A Marathon Oil.(BP Chemicals' Texas facility releases benzene into air)(Brief Article)
- refinery and a neighboring BP Chemicals facility allegedly released dangerous quantities of the chemical into the air, according to a Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission TNRCC ... refinery and a neighboring BP Chemicals facility allegedly released dangerous quantities of the chemical into the air,...
- Research articles 2001-11-12
- Valero Energy Corp. Q3 2008 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from the line of Mark Flannery of Credit Suisse. Mark Flannery - Credit Suisse Yes, good morning. I would like to talk about the CapEx reduction if possible. Can you give us an idea of what you will not be doing now...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-28
- Reliance proceeds with styrene plant; considers SBR market entry.(new construction projects )(Reliance Industries Ltd.)(styrene butadiene rubber)(Brief Article)
- Reliance Industries is proceeding with construction of a previously announced styrene plant at Jamnagar, India, CW has learned. The plant will use ABB Lummus Global technology, and be completed in the first quarter of 2006, says Mukesh Ambani, chairman & managing director of Reliance. The plant,...
- Research articles 2004-10-13
- VALERO TO LEASE EL PASO'S CORPUS CHRISTI FACILITY.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Valero has signed a 20-year lease for El Paso Energy's Houston 115,000-bbls/day refinery and pipeline system at Corpus Christi, TX. The unit produces 1,000 bbls/day of benzene, 3,000 bbls/day of toluene, and 3,500 bbls/day of mixed xylenes. Valero will pay $18.5 million/year for the...
- Research articles 2001-06-13
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