Incidents

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Fires Disrupt Chevron, JX Nippon Refineries

August 8, 2012

Fires at Chevrons Richmond, Calif., refinery and a refinery in Mizushima, Japan, caused disruptions at both plants, alth ...

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Evergreen: We Comply

August 1, 2012

Evergreen Oil, Inc. says that requests by a California advocacy group to shutter its Newark, Calif., rerefinery because ...

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Evergreen Leak Probe Continues

July 25, 2012

A July 6 incident that caused the evacuation of approximately 70 workers at the Evergreen Oil Inc. rerefinery in Newark, ...

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St. Petersburgs Motor Oil Mess

July 18, 2012

Shelves loaded with several thousands tons of packaged motor oil collapsed in a St. Petersburg, Russia, warehouse on Jul ...

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Dover Contains Vapor Release

May 23, 2012

A vapor release incident at Dover Chemicals plant in Dover, Ohio, on Monday led to a temporary evacuation of the facilit ...

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Fire Destroys Lubes Warehouse

April 25, 2012

A massive fire that took six hours to control devastated a 30,000 square foot lubricants warehouse at R.D. Holder Oil Co ...

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Total Cuts Base Oil Output

March 21, 2012

Total temporarily cut base oil production at its Gonfreville, France, refinery on March 10, citing a weak market and eco ...

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Fluid Discharge Draws Penalty

January 11, 2012

A federal judge in Louisiana sentenced the city of Pineville to a $15,000 fine and one year unsupervised probation Jan. ...