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Operating as Houston Refining, LP, LyondellBasell's Houston refinery is a 268,000-barrel-per-day (42,600 m 3 /d) refinery located on the Texas Gulf Coast in Houston that occupies 700 acres (2.8 km 2) along the Houston Ship Channel.
At one time, Atofina's headquarters were in an area in Houston close to George Bush Intercontinental Airport and near to the North Houston district. [2] [6] The lease to the former space was scheduled to expire in 2010, but the company had the right to cancel its lease in 2007. The firm, which occupied a similar amount of square footage in the ...
Scandium is a chemical element with the symbol Sc and atomic number 21. It is a silvery-white metallic d-block element. Historically, it has been classified as a rare-earth element, [9] together with yttrium and the lanthanides. It was discovered in 1879 by spectral analysis of the minerals euxenite and gadolinite from Scandinavia. [10]
The most available element in group 3 is yttrium, with annual production of 8,900 tonnes in 2010. Yttrium is mostly produced as oxide, by a single country, China (99%). [75] Lutetium and scandium are also mostly obtained as oxides, and their annual production by 2001 was about 10 and 2 tonnes, respectively. [76]
December 11th, 2019, aerial view of TPC plant and surrounding area. A processing unit at TPC's Port Neches butadiene manufacturing plant exploded in a series of explosions on Wednesday, November 27, 2019, the eve of Thanksgiving Day, and a fire raged at the facility. 60,000 residents were evacuated [18] [19] [5] within four miles of the facility, including parts of Port Neches, Nederland ...
Two Indian chemical companies have been indicted for allegedly importing ingredients for the highly addictive opioid fentanyl into the United States and Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice said ...
NewMarket Corporation was founded in 1887 as the Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company. [19] In 1964, Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company acquired Ethyl Corporation, [20] a company started in 1924 by Charles Kettering following the development of Tetraethyllead, an anti-knocking agent for gasoline engines in passenger vehicles. [21]