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NewsReuters, May 23, 2019On Thursday, HollyFrontier announced that it was temporarily suspending operations at its Tulsa, Oklahoma, refinery as a precaution due to flooding of the Arkansas River.
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NewsAssociated Press, May 23, 2019Delek US President and CEO Uzi Yemin announced Thursday the energy company is upgrading its Krotz Springs refinery over five years, creating 30 new jobs with average annual salaries of $90,000 plus benefits.
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NewsInspectioneering Staff, May 22, 2019United Rentals' charity sporting clays tournament raises $20,000 for local veterans organization Fisher House.
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NewsReuters, May 22, 2019Sempra has asked FERC for a 15-month extension to complete the Cameron LNG export plant and put it into full service by September of 2020.
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Newsars Technica, May 21, 2019In a newly released 258-page report, California regulators say they now know the cause of the massive 2015 Aliso Canyon Gas Leak.
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NewsCameron LNG, May 20, 2019Cameron LNG announced Tuesday that Train 1 has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its Hackberry, La., liquefaction-export facility.
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NewsReuters, May 20, 2019Russia’s Antipinsky oil refinery said on Monday it had filed for bankruptcy, weeks after a London court ordered its assets be frozen in response to a lawsuit from a trading house.
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NewsLotte Chemical USA, May 20, 2019Lotte Chemical USA and Westlake Chemical Corporation hosted an official opening ceremony on May 9, 2019, for their joint-venture Ethylene and the Lotte Chemical world-scale Ethylene Glycol (EG) Production Facility near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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NewsOffice of the Governor of Louisiana, May 20, 2019Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Shell Chemicals VP for Gulf Coast Manufacturing Rhoman Hardy announced the company will advance feasibility plans for a potential $1.2 billion manufacturing expansion at its Shell Geismar facility in Louisiana.
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NewsReuters, May 17, 2019Venezuela’s 310,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Cardon oil refinery, operated by state-run oil company PDVSA, halted operations on Wednesday due to damage at some of its units.
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NewsExxon Mobil Corporation, May 17, 2019ExxonMobil has completed an expansion of its specialty elastomers manufacturing plant in Newport, Wales, doubling the plant’s manufacturing capacity and increasing global manufacturing capacity of Santoprene™ thermoplastic elastomers by 25 percent.
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NewsArkema, May 17, 2019Arkema reaches another milestone in its journey of growth in specialties with the planned acquisition of ArrMaz, a US-based leader in specialty surfactants for crop nutrition, mining and infrastructure.
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NewsHouston Chronicle, May 16, 201935 employees at KMCO's Crosby chemical plant have been terminated. The layoffs were announced on Wednesday, and come as a result of the fatal incident that took place early last month.
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NewsReuters, May 16, 2019Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment Co (BPGIC) plans to build a 250,000 bpd oil refinery in Fujairah, UAE to produce bunker fuel that complies with new international laws capping sulfur content in shipping fuels.
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NewsReuters, May 16, 2019Sinopec's Qingdao Refinery plans to shut down later this month for a planned major overhaul, the state-run refiner said on its website on Wednesday.
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