Marathon said in a late Wednesday TCEQ regulatory filing that the fire broke out when residual hydrocarbons ignited as the company's crews were draining a vessel. The filing listed the refinery's ...

ExxonMobil's 588,000 b/d Baytown, Texas, refinery had an unplanned shutdown of its alkylation unit due to a compressor trip that started on Monday, the company notified the Texas Commission on ...

The head of a federal agency investigating last Friday’s explosions and fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions called the incident “catastrophic” and said the main unit where blasts occurred is ...

As the South Bay community marks the 10th anniversary of an explosion at Torrance Refinery, advocates and elected officials are renewing their efforts to ban modified hydrofluoric acid at the facility ...

File - Flames and smoke emerge from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, June 21, 2019. Hydrogen fluoride, which can travel for miles, was released, but most was ...

San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. on Monday, July 15, restarted a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit and an alkylation unit at its 135,000-barrel-a-day ...

HOUSTON, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that CVR Energy, Inc.'s Board of Directors has approved the next phase of the revamp of the alkylation unit at its subsidiary's ...