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HOUSTON (Reuters) -LyondellBasell Industries will begin the permanent closure of its 263,776 barrel-per-day Houston refinery this coming weekend, said people familiar with plant operations ...
Operating as Houston Refining, LP, LyondellBasell's Houston refinery is a 268,000-barrel-per-day (42,600 m 3 /d) refinery located on the Texas Gulf Coast in Houston that occupies 700 acres (2.8 km 2) along the Houston Ship Channel.
As of Tuesday morning, the fire caused by an exploding pipeline in a Houston suburb continued to burn itself out, according to officials.
Lyondell bought ARCO Chemical in 1998 for $5.6 billion including ARCO's entire 82.2% ownership stake. [8] In 2004, Lyondell purchased Millennium Chemicals in a stock-swap deal valued at $2.3 billion. [9] In August 2006, Lyondell acquired Citgo's interest in the Lyondell-Citgo Refinery for $2.1 billion, and renamed the facility Houston Refining ...
An investigation is underway into the fatal chemical leak at a Houston area oil refinery owned by Mexico's state oil firm Pemex, the company's top executive said on Friday. Pemex, as Petroleos ...
The board convened in September of that year in Houston, in part because the Houston area had been home to large-scale disasters like the one in 1990. [22] Since then, the next biggest industrial disaster to occur in the Greater Houston area was the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion , [ 23 ] which killed 15 people and injured 180.
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Lyondell is spun off from ARCO, becoming a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (Ticker symbol: LYO). 1990: Lyondell acquires low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and polypropylene (PP) businesses from Rexene. 1993: LYONDELL-CITGO Refining (LCR) is formed as the Houston Refinery becomes a joint venture with CITGO Petroleum ...