March 29, 2022
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The cause of an explosion and fire at an ExxonMobil refinery in southern Montana is under investigation, company officials said Sunday. The fire began at about 10 p.m. Saturday at a refinery in Lockwood, a suburb …
January 11, 2022
A California state appeals court on Monday denied Motiva Enterprises’ request for insurance coverage for a settlement with workers injured in a 2017 fire at its 607,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas refinery. In a decision on Monday, a panel of the …
December 27, 2021
Exxon Mobil Corp. says an overnight fire at its Baytown, Texas, refinery that injured four people has been extinguished. The blaze occurred at 1 a.m. local time at the plant, which is the fourth-largest in the U.S., capable of processing …
December 20, 2021
The owner of a Philadelphia refinery that was shut down after a June 2019 explosion secured at least $93 million in additional coverage from its insurers after a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled in favor of the policyholders’ interpretation of …
November 9, 2021
HOUSTON — Phillips 66 on Monday said it would convert its Alliance refinery in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, to an oil terminal, after a short-lived attempt to sell the hurricane-damaged facility. The 50-year-old oil refinery was severely damaged after several feet …
September 3, 2021
Exxon Mobil Corp. released sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide at its Baton Rouge refinery as Hurricane Ida churned ashore. A broken pipeline poured crude oil near a bayou that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. And a miles-long black slick …
May 25, 2021
A powerful cyclone is set to slam into India early on Wednesday, the second in less than two weeks, with authorities evacuating more than one million people at a time when the nation is facing the world’s worst outbreak of …
April 26, 2021
A “noxious” gaseous smell coming from St Croix’s recently reopened refinery that caused schools to close was caused by excess emissions of hydrogen sulfide, U.S. Virgin Islands officials said on Friday. The Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) is …
April 26, 2021
Inadequate safety standards at Marathon Petroleum’s St. Paul Park refinery in Minnesota have caused avoidable hydrocarbon and chemical releases that pose a threat to the community, a local worker advocacy group said in a report on Sunday, as a lockout …
February 17, 2021
PHILADELPHIA — Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES). Other laborers ripped asbestos …