Workers are even more exposed. Jessica Tovar is a former Richmond organiser for CBE. She recalled working with a Mexican man who cleaned the vats at the oil refineries. “The vats contain the heaviest and dirtiest… he described it as tar. He told me that when he would go home, he woul...
Valero is the largest independent petroleum refiner in the world and the world's second-largest renewable fuels producer. Valero hosts 15 refineries in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom and 33 wind turbines in the United States.17...
Since the beginning of World War 2, allied military planners knew that the German military is critically dependent on a single source of oil, the oil fields and refineries in Ploesti, Romania. Aware of this vulnerability, the Germans developed and used an expensive industrial process to produce ...
A fire onboard the cargo ship SS Grandcamp docked at Texas City in 1947 detonated 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate, a compound used in fertilizers and high explosives. The explosion blew two planes out of the sky and triggered a chain reaction that detonated nearby refineries as well as a ...
Kazakhstan is the tenth-largest exporter of oil in the world, exporting $47.6 billion worth of oil in 2022, accounting for 3.28% of the world's total.1The country has three major crude oil refineries. with proven reserves of 30 billion barrels. it is among the 20 top producers of energy...
equivalent to the U.K.’s entire fleet.The Covid crisis has hastened a seismic shift in the global refining industry as demand for plastics and fuels grows in China and the rest of Asia, where economies are quickly rebounding from the pandemic. In contrast, refineries in the U.S and Euro...
As part of its Powering Progress strategy, Shell is transforming its refineries (which numbered 14 in October 2020) into five energy and chemicals parks. Shell aims to reduce the production of traditional fuels by 55% by 2030 and provide more low-carbon fuels such as biofuels ...
Petroleum Deodorized: Early Canadian History of the 'Doctor Sweetening' Process. During a period of about four decades following World War I, gasoline was often deodorized at refineries by treatment with alkaline solutions of lead oxide... McBryde,AE W. - 《Annals of Science》 被引量: 3发表...
ABC’s Whitney Lloyd points out that today could bring more controversy for Rick Perry with a report out that commissioners he appointed may grant some of the nation’s largest refineries a tax refund of more than $135 million. Nearly half the refund would be taken from publi...
Meanwhile, although international oil companies do not participate in oil production in Saudi Arabia, several partners with Saudi Aramco in joint-venture refineries and petrochemical plants in the country—partners include Exxon Mobil (XOM), Sumitomo Chemical Co., and Total S.A.9 ...