Oil refineries are a well-documented source of air pollution, but less attention is paid to the ways they also pollute the water. Transforming crude oil into petroleum produces millions of gallons of wastewater each day, filled with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, that pours out of the plants and.
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Fuel supplies drop most on record as US oil refining collapses, leading to largest ever jump in oil supplies
Refinery utilization at an all time low, 10% lower than it s ever been; oil refined is least on record; record jump in oil inventories, record drop in gasoline inventories; distillates production at a 26 year low, distillates inventories drop most in 18 years; largest jump in oil imports in 39 weeks.
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Ex-Refinery Operator Blames Faulty Pipe For Philly Explosion
Law360 (March 1, 2021, 1:32 PM EST) The bankrupt former operator of a South Philadelphia refinery blamed a mislabeled elbow joint for a leak and explosion that shut down the plant in 2019, and filed suit in Pennsylvania state court against part supplier Babcock & Wilcox Co.
In a lawsuit filed Friday, Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing LLC said the elbow joint blamed for the June 21, 2019, blast was made with an alloy that included nickel and copper also known by the trade name Yoloy instead of the carbon steel intended for that part of the Girard Point Refinery. The defective joint had been.
150 Years of Spills: Philadelphia Refinery Cleanup Reveals Toxic Legacy of Fossil Fuels
Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES).
Other laborers ripped asbestos from the guts of an old boiler house, part of a massive demolition and redevelopment of the plant, which closed in 2019 after a series of explosions at the facility.
Plans call for the nearly 1,400-acre site to be transformed into a new commercial hub with warehousing and offices. All it will take is a decade, hundreds of millions of dollars, and confronting 150 years’ worth of industrial pollution, including buried rail cars and a poisonous stew of waste fuels poured onto the ground. A U.S. refinery cleanup of this size and scope has no known precedent, remediation experts said.