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The Martinez Refinery, owned by PBF Energy, located in Martinez, CA. PBF Energy Inc. is a petroleum refining and logistics company that produces and sells transportation fuels, heating oils, lubricants, petrochemical feedstocks, and other petroleum products.
The single remaining refinery in Hawaii now also includes refining assets previously owned and operated as "Hawaii Refinery" by Chevron Corporation with up to 54,000 bbl/d (8,600 m 3 /d) in additional capacity. Chevron sold their Hawaii Refinery to newly formed Island Energy Services LLC in 2016, and IES sold the refining assets to Par Hawaii ...
American Sugar Refining, Inc. and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida acquired Domino Sugar from Tate & Lyle for $180 million on November 6, 2001. [11] American Sugar Refining also owns two of its former major competitors, the California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C&H Sugar), purchased in 2005, and Jack Frost (National Sugar Company ...
The Western States Petroleum Assn. lobby group warns that state involvement in refinery ownership or management would be difficult. “This is a very complex and hard business to run," the group ...
A class-action lawsuit against Murphy Oil ended in a settlement in 2009; the company was required to pay $330 million to 6,200 claimants, including owners of about 1,800 affected residential properties in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. [23] [24] [25]
In 2022, non-profit environmental group San Francisco Baykeeper sued Valero and Amports, a shipping operator, alleging that the companies had been dumping petroleum coke (or "petcoke") from Valero's Benicia Refinery into the San Francisco Bay. The lawsuit was settled in October 2024 for $2.38 million, with the companies also agreeing to site ...
Shell Deer Park Refinery 20 miles east of Houston, was the nation's eighth-largest oil refinery and one of the world's largest petrochemical producers. The facility was also the second-largest source of air pollution in Harris County , which ranked among the lowest in the nation in several measures of air quality. [ 28 ]
The Murphy Oil USA refinery spill was an oil spill that resulted from the failure of a storage tank at the Murphy Oil USA petroleum refinery in the residential areas of Chalmette and Meraux, Louisiana, United States, on August 30, 2005, the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast.