Thirteen years before the explosion at BP's Texas City refinery, federal investigators warned that a portion of the plant was constructed to allow flammable gases to escape from a ventilation stack, ...

OJSC Angarsk Petrochemical Co. (APC), a subsidiary of Russia’s OJSC Rosneft, has let a contract to Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), a division of Honeywell International Inc., to provide advanced ...

HOUSTON -- ConocoPhillips Inc. yesterday reached a deal with Premcor Inc. to purchase select assets at of its Hartford, Ill., refinery. The purchase includes the coker, crude unit, catalytic cracker, ...

India's state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL) has completed conversion of the catalytic reforming unit (CRU) at its 12 million-tonne/year Mumbai refinery into a light naphtha isomerization ...

The section of the Texas City refinery that exploded three weeks ago, leaving more people dead and injured than any U.S. industrial accident in 15 years, has a troubled past that includes fires, ...

(Reuters) - Four employees were hurt in a fire at CVR Refining's 115,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas, after a fire broke out at an isomerization unit early on Tuesday, the company ...

CSB investigators on April 1 got their first close-up look at ground zero of the March 23 BP refinery explosion that killed 15 workers and injured about 100. Investigators, who previously had been ...

The catalytic isomerization of α‑pinene oxide to campholenic aldehyde represents a transformative reaction in the fine chemicals and fragrance industries. This rearrangement process converts an ...

Washington, DC, March 21, 2008 -- Three years after the explosion that killed 15 workers and injured 180 others at the BP Texas City refinery, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a new ...

At least 15 workers died and more than 70 were injured in an explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, that sent massive plumes of black smoke into the air, shook buildings for miles and ...

ZUG, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Petroplus Holdings AG (SWX:PPHN) today announced that it continues to maintain limited operations at its Coryton refinery following the fire that ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has acquired isomerization technologies from RRT Global that will enable KBR to offer expanded octane and clean fuel ...