Sentences with phrase «texas oil refineries»

In January 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that Texas oil refineries, power plants, and other industrial facilities spewed out 294 million tons of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in 2010 — more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania and Florida, combined.

FACED with rising anger from environmentalists last year over his plans for a transcontinental pipeline to deliver treacly Canadian tar sands to Texas oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the CEO of TransCanada, Russ Girling, expressed surprise.

If you worked at a Texas oil refinery, chemical refinery or plant, shipyard or shipbuilding site, electrical power plant or construction area and think you may have been exposed to asbestos, you may qualify to undergo asbestos testing at no out of pocket expense to determine if you are eligible to file a lawsuit and receive compensation for your injuries.

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The pipeline would connect Canada's tar sands with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast that specialize in processing heavy crude oil.

TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline would carry more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta and the U.S. Bakken oil field across six U.S. states to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on Hurricane Harvey's impact on the Texas coast's oil refineries.

The pipeline carries Canadian heavy crude oil from Patoka, Illinois to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast.

Three - tenths of the nation's crude oil refining capacity is located in Texas, with the majority of the refineries «clustered near ports along the Gulf Coast,» according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's website.

Q: Last year's decision by President Barack Obama's administration to delay approval of the Keystone Pipeline, which is meant to link Alberta's oil sands with Texas refineries, dramatically raised the profile of the environmental clash over the oil sands.

The Texas Gulf Coast is home to many of the nation's oil refineries and chemical plants, which routinely use chemicals like benzene that are known carcinogens.

Meanwhile, in Texas, oil refineries and chemical plants have dumped a year's worth of cancer - causing pollutants into the air following Hurricane Harvey.

For example, Phillips 66» Sweeny Refinery in Old Ocean, Texas imported over 46 million barrels of Venezuelan oil last year, the most out of any other refinery.

Oil plays in North Dakota, Texas, and elsewhere around the country may have reversed declining US production, but much of that oil is also ending up on rail cars bound for coastal refineriOil plays in North Dakota, Texas, and elsewhere around the country may have reversed declining US production, but much of that oil is also ending up on rail cars bound for coastal refinerioil is also ending up on rail cars bound for coastal refineries.

Also, Marathon Petroleum Corp. said it could shut down its 451,000 bpd refinery in Texas City because of a shortage of oil, Bloomberg reports.

Energy giant TransCanada originally proposed the Keystone XL pipeline to transport 800,000 barrels daily of tar sands oil through five states from Alberta, Canada, 1,700 miles to Gulf of Mexico refineries in Texas.

Earlier this year, I was in southeast Texas, taking pictures of an oil refinery for a report about air pollution and the harm it causes to lower - income communities like Port Arthur, Texas.

Remember: Hurricane Harvey knocked out more than a dozen refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast, including both the largest and second - largest oil refineries in the U.S. — Saudi Aramco's newly acquired Port Arthur Refinery and Exxon's Baytown facilities in Texas, respectively.

A surplus of crude could overwhelm Gulf Coast and Canadian refineries that weren't built for the type of oil now in abundance from new fields in North Dakota and Texas, forcing the issue, McKenna said.

For years now pipeline advocates have argued that getting cheap bitumen or heavy oil to eastern refineries would be highly profitable due to the price difference between West Texas Intermediate, the North American benchmark and North Sea Brent, the global benchmark for oil.

CRUZ RALLIES FOR BIOFUELS — Reuters» Jarrett Renshaw: «Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump's administration to push for an overhaul of the nation's biofuels policy, during a rally at a Pennsylvania oil refinery that blames its bankruptcy on the controversial regulation.»

Other key decisions include the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pump oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries in Texas.

Mixing wry comedy and unexpected pathos, and featuring music by Mark Knopfler, this stirring ode to Forsyth's native Scotland follows a Texas oil executive (Peter Riegert) whose life is changed when his boss (Burt Lancaster) sends him to a Scottish village to buy up land for a new refinery.

The price of crude oil climbed after the dollar weakened against the euro and Exxon Mobile Corp. announced it will shut down a major Texas refinery in the preparation from the summer blend to the winter blend fuel, AAA said.

And in fact, by law most MLPs currently operate in the energy industry, providing and managing resources: One example is Texas - based Genesis Energy L.P., which provides pipeline transportation, refinery services, and supply and logistics support services for oil companies.

An oil refinery is shown near Houston following Hurricane Harvey August 30, 2017 in Houston, Texas.

Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg on October 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico, near the Louisiana border.

Robert Rauschenberg's art and life were always open to the world, but his pursuit of interconnectedness and his refusal to accept conventional boundaries put him at odds both with authority and Port Arthur, the oil refinery town in Texas where he was brought up.

The refineries built along the coast of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi process the crude oil and natural gas produced offshore which are shipped to the mainland via pipelines.

Refining tar sands oil in Texas will increase pollution in an area that already boasts elevated levels of cancer due to years of oil refinery pollution.

If built the pipeline would bring oil from Alberta's tar sands through six US states down to Texas refineries.

The spill comes at an inopportune time for the industry, as it lobbies hard for approval of the controversial Keystone XL oil sands pipeline that would carry Canadian dilbit from the tar sand region to Texas refineries on the Gulf Coast.

The Pegasus pipeline is one of the few pipelines currently supplying a heavy Canadian crude oil known as diluted bitumen, or dilbit, to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.

At the same time, the Consumer Energy Alliance, a group funded partly by oil and gas firms, issued an economic analysis that said the 1,700 - mile pipeline connecting Alberta's oil sands to Texas refineries would generate $ 580.2 million in direct spending over two years in Nebraska.

It is hard for most Americans to understand how it is contrary to the national interest to create 20,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, increase US gross domestic product by an estimated $ 350 billion, and bring 830,000 barrels of oil per day via pipeline from friend and neighbor Canada to Texas refineries.

Petroleum refineries and organic chemicals were not drawn to the area because of its tropical deluges, but because of access to the sea, oil in Texas and the Gulf, and a business respectful economic climate.

n the refinery states, we were able to show that there are more toxic metals and elements associated with refining tar sands oil (petcoke became a big issue in Chicago's refinery areas and in Texas» Port Arthur.)

Keystone XL could then move that oil from Cushing to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Upton's campaign website names him «a champion of the Keystone XL pipeline,» a project that could send 800,000 barrels of carbon - heavy crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Texas.

White House, environmentalists and U.S foundations seek to block all oil sands development, by Duggan Flanakin and Redmond Weissenberger Oilfield workers in Alberta, refinery workers in Texas and countless factory workers just learned that the White House will not allow construction of an oil pipeline that would bring over half a million barrels of oil -LSB-...]

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would transport 880,000 barrels of raw, toxic tar sands oil right across the Oglala Aquifer and Lakota territory, and down through the American heartland — from Alberta, Canada to refineries in Texas per day.

Refineries in Texas are seeing a much - needed boost as pipelines begin to carry landlocked crude oil from U.S. shale plays to the Gulf Coast.

Jackson worked closely with 2011 Prize recipient Hilton Kelley to tighten up regulations on oil refineries along the gulf coast near Port Arthur, Texas.

This pipeline would move dirty oil from Canada to refineries in Texas and would set back our renewable energy efforts for at least two decades, much to our enemies» delight.

Black smoke billows out of facilities at ExxonMobil's massive oil refinery in Beaumont, Texas several days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall.

Ted Genoways at On Earth has an excellent report on the health effects the oil and gas refineries have had on Port Arthur, Texas residents.

The incident is refueling calls for the Obama administration to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver tar sands oil from Canada to refineries in Texas.

Even a project at BP's maligned refinery in Texas City, Tex. — owner of the oil industry's worst safety record and site of a deadly 2005 explosion, as well as a benzene leak earlier this year — secured a waiver for the preliminary phase of a carbon capture and sequestration experiment involving two companies with past compliance problems.

In addition to tea party congressional Republicans, opposition to continuing the wind credit comes from the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C. - based industry group linked to petrochemical interests that promote expanded drilling for fossil fuels, including in the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and approval of the proposed XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast.

VANCOUVER, Canada — U.S. opponents of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline should take take note: One of the greatest weaknesses of the proposed 1,980 mile - long pipeline from Canada's tar sand fields to refineries in Texas actually lies in British Columbia on Canada's west coast.

But that's not the only thing behind the lower gas prices.Even though New Jersey is far removed from Texas or Alaska — where oil is drilled — the state does have a lot of refineries and pipelines.