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HOUSTON (Reuters) -Two people were killed in a chemical release at Pemex's 312,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Deer Park oil refinery in Texas, the county sheriff said. Up to 35 people at the refinery ...
Pemex Deer Park is an oil refinery located in Deer Park, Texas on the Houston Ship Channel in the Greater Houston area. It is owned and operated by Pemex.. As of December 2017, the plant is the fourth-largest taxpayer [1] and the tenth largest employer [2] in Harris County.
An explosion and fire at an Exxon Mobil oil refinery in Texas on Wednesday left 37 people with minor injuries, in the latest of a series of petrochemical industry blazes this year in the Houston area.
The Shell Martinez Refinery in Martinez, California, the first Shell refinery in the United States, supplied Shell and Texaco stations in the West and Midwest [12] until its sale to PBF Energy in 2020. [13] Shell fuel previously included the RU2000 and SU2000 lines (later there was a SU2000E) but they have been superseded by the V-Power line. [14]
January 12, 2009 - 2 refinery operators and 2 contractors suffered serious burns resulting from a flash fire at the Silver Eagle Refinery in Woods Cross. The accident occurred when a large flammable vapor cloud was released from an atmospheric storage tank, known as tank 105, which contained an estimated 440,000 gallons of light naphtha.
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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.
BP acquired the refinery as part of its merger with Amoco in 1999. [3] As of January 2005, it was the second largest oil refinery out of 23 in Texas (behind Baytown Refinery), and the fourth overall out of 142 in the United States in terms of operating capacity, which was 475,000 barrels (75,500 m 3) per stream day.