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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.
In 2004, the company sold oil fields in Western Canada for US$633 million. [10] In July 2011, the company sold its refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, to Calumet for $214 million. [11] In September 2011, the company sold its refinery in Meraux, Louisiana, to Valero Energy for $325 million. [12]
Chalmette (/ ʃ æ l ˈ m ɛ t / shal-MET) is a census-designated place (CDP) in, and the parish seat of, St. Bernard Parish in southeastern Louisiana, United States. [2] The 2010 census reported that Chalmette had 16,751 people; 2011 population was listed as 17,119; [3] however, the pre-Katrina population was 32,069 at the 2000 census.
The important decision to spinoff its downstream operations was magnified in Murphy Oil's (NYS: MUR) third quarter earnings release. While missing analyst estimates by $0.03 is negligible, the ...
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ZIP codes: 71101-71109, 71115-71166. ... after the discovery of oil in Louisiana, became a national center for the oil industry. ... Shreveport city, Louisiana ...
In 2015 PBF acquired the 189,000 BPD Chalmette, Louisiana refinery from ExxonMobil and its partner, the state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela, for $322 million, in a deal that included interests in chemical facilities, pipelines and other assets at the site located just ten minutes from downtown New Orleans.