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PetroKazakhstan is a Canadian oil company, based in Calgary, Alberta, that has all of its business focused on Kazakhstan where it had some 550 million barrels (87,000,000 m 3) of oil and 25 billion cubic feet (710,000,000 m 3) of natural gas reserves (January 2005 estimate) in the Turgai basin region.
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]
The fire spread to 13 alarm size, with 63 fire companies being used to control the situation. Seventeen homes were destroyed. The cause of the leak was the failure of a moisture scrubbing "drip pot" on the pipeline. [163] [164] [165] February 13 - An 8 inch pipeline carrying heating oil leaked into a creek, near Wilmington, Delaware. About ...
The Omsk refinery processed more than 21 million metric tons (420,000 barrels per day) of crude oil in 2022. Russia's Omsk oil refinery reports fire, operating normally Skip to main content
Imperial Sugar's refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, was a four-story structure on the bank of the Savannah River. Imperial, based in Sugar Land, Texas, had bought the refinery and its brand name in 1997 from a previous local owner. Known since construction as the Dixie Crystal refinery, it was the main employer in Port Wentworth, a town of ...
A U.S. National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has ruled Exxon Mobil's 10-month-long lockout of some 600 union workers at a Texas oil refinery during a contract dispute was legal.
It is brought in by petroleum tankers via the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Rosario Strait and delivered directly to the refinery via the facility's tanker pier near a minor headland called Cherry Point, on the Strait of Georgia. [9] [10] The refinery received the first oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, transported aboard the ARCO Juneau, in ...
A massive fire at a south Louisiana oil refinery sent a tower of black smoke billowing into the air above the Mississippi River on Friday, forcing nearby residents to evacuate for several hours as ...