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In March 2017, Juan P. Granda a former employee of NTR Metals, Miami was charged with buying gold from illegal mines in Peru. [1] In January 2018; Samer H. Barrage, Renato J. Rodriguez, and Juan P. Granda; three former employees of the now-defunct Florida-based NTR Metals Miami, were jailed for six years after they pleaded guilty to money ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Texas designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Motiva Enterprises owns and operates the Port Arthur Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. On 25 May 2012, Motiva officially completed its expansion of the refinery to a capacity of 600,000 bbl/d (95,000 m 3 /d) making it the largest refinery in North America and the fifth largest in the world.
The 58-acre Brio Refinery site was home to several chemical companies between 1957 and 1982, when the owner, Brio Refinery Inc. declared bankruptcy and ceased operations. During that period, the site had been used for copper recovery and petroleum re-refining , typically the processing of tar , sludge , and other residue from oil tanks and ...
Tesoro's Anacortes Refinery at March Point in Puget Sound, southeast of Anacortes, Washington State. Having taken over BP installations, researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute identified Tesoro as being the 24th-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, releasing roughly 3,740,000 lb (1,700 t) of toxic chemicals annually. [22]
The refinery eventually will process U.S. shale oil from fields in West and South Texas, Calce said in an interview. In comparison, U.S. Gulf Coast refineries largely process medium to heavy crude.
The resulting gold is 99.5% pure, but of lower purity than gold produced by the other common refining method, the Wohlwill process, which produces gold of up to 99.999% purity. [1] [2] The Wohlwill process is commonly used for producing high-purity gold, such as in electronics work, where exacting standards of purity are required.
Western Refining, Inc., is a Texas-based Fortune 200 [8] and Global 2000 [9] crude oil refiner and marketer operating primarily in the Southwestern, North-Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.