oil refinery fire News

Shipping Resumes in Houston Channel Fouled by Chemical Spill

The U.S. Gulf Coast’s most important industrial waterway partially reopened on Monday after it was polluted with cancer-causing benzene and toxic runoff from the region’s worst chemical disaster in more than a decade. A two-mile stretch of the Houston Ship …

Explosion, Fire Causes Extensive Damage to Husky Ohio Refinery Unit

A fire that started after an explosion on Saturday at Husky Energy Inc’s 155,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude oil refinery in Lima, Ohio, has caused extensive damage to a unit at the plant, a fire official said Sunday. No injuries were reported …