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A refinery owned by Gulf Oil Corporation in Philadelphia, located [1] at Girard Point on the Schuylkill River in South Philadelphia, caught fire on Sunday, August 17, 1975. [2] [3] [4] This incident grew into an 11-alarm fire, not brought under control until 24 hours later, and resulted in the death of eight firefighters [5] of the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD), injuries to 14 other ...
Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. [1] The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth largest in 1979, ...
During the course of his career, Adair helped extinguish more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well, natural gas well, and similar spectacular fires. He gained global attention in 1962 when he fought a fire at the Gassi Touil gas field in the Algerian Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter , a 450-foot (140 m) pillar of flame that ...
Gulf South Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline system that transports gas between south and east Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. The system is owned by a limited partnership . The system connects to Henry Hub in Louisiana.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
U.S. oil producer Chevron used the term "Gulf of America" instead of Gulf of Mexico in its fourth-quarter press release on Friday, a sign of corporate America beginning to implement U.S. President ...
Gulf Oil Corporation began operating in Canada in 1942, and two years later formed a Canadian subsidiary called the Canadian Gulf Oil Company. In 1956 Canadian Gulf Oil merged with the British American Oil Company (of which Gulf Oil was the controlling shareholder) and until 1969 operated under the British American name.
A secret Florida warehouse may hold clues. David Goodhue. May 10, 2023 at 5:00 AM ... Mattiford and his charter boat crew colleagues headed out into the Gulf and collected oil samples from the water.