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The refinery used to be operated by Giant Industries and earlier operated by BP/Amoco. [2] Giant Industries was acquired by Western Refining in 2007. The refinery could run high TAN crude oil (crude oil with a high content of naphthenic acids). The refining operations were shut down in the fall of 2010 and the refinery was later demolished. [3]
The Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest wildfire burning in the region, has exploded to 200,000 acres since igniting Monday afternoon, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
McKee refinery fire; P. ... Texas City disaster; Texas City refinery explosion; TPC Group; W. Waco siege This page was last edited on 29 July 2023, at 08:23 ...
Western Refining, Inc., is a Texas-based Fortune 200 [8] and Global 2000 [9] crude oil refiner and marketer operating primarily in the Southwestern, North-Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
The explosion was heard 5 miles away from the Valero refinery and rocked buildings within a mile of the plant, according to local media reports. Valero's Texas City refinery hit by explosion, fire ...
An 8-day long fire then consumed at least 45 acres of storage tanks and damaged nearby homes and businesses. In addition to a boy killed in his home, one Standard Oil workman died of a heart attack, another 40 were injured, and 1,500 evacuated. [49] On Nov 23, 1957, 2 workers were killed in a Whiting Standard of Indiana refinery fire. [49]
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 ...
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