Sentences with phrase «oil refinery near»

Saudi Arabia has been looking to diversify its holdings, and Aramco is reportedly looking to buy an oil refinery near the port of Houston.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on Tropical Storm Harvey impacting the oil refineries near the Gulf Coast.

The detonation also caused a chain reaction when a nearby ship, also carrying ammonium nitrate, exploded, setting fires at chemical tanks and oil refineries near the port.

Not exact matches

SUPERIOR, Wis. — The mayors of the Lake Superior twin port cities near last week's oil refinery explosion and fire are calling on its owners to stop using a toxic chemical compound at the site.

The refineries that buy crude oil and process it into products like gasoline and diesel have long been clustered around the edges, near the coasts.

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP)-- The mayors of the Lake Superior twin port cities near last week's oil refinery explosion and fire are calling on its owners to stop using a toxic chemical compound at the site.

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.

Fires have been reported at over 80 locations in the country, including an oil refinery in Ichihara, near Tokyo, where huge balls of flame reached into the sky after natural gas storage tanks were set ablaze.

The MP for Falkirk was arrested near Grangemouth oil refinery on Thursday and held in custody overnight pending his court appearance.

Low - income neighborhoods near the Ship Channel, which connects Houston to Galveston Bay, have been plagued with air pollution from oil refineries, chemical plants and the shipping industry.

It would transport 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Canadian tar sands to refineries near Houston.

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.

Research from NREL shows exceptionally good wind speeds for utility - scale wind turbines along the southern coast of St. Croix — including near the old oil refinery.

But, expanding California's cap - and - trade program to enable polluters to buy REDD credits also harms Californians — overwhelmingly low - income communities and communities of color — those who live near the refineries, power plants, oil and gas extraction sites and other high - emission industries that are the main cause of local and global climate disruption

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

why can't refineries be located at / near the source of this oil sand?

It tells us that 29 people have submitted a joint statement about the proposed Keystone Pipeline, which is intended to ship Alberta oil across the Canada / US border to refineries near the Gulf of Mexico.

Watch Indigenous activists from Idle No More San Francisco stand up to Big Oil by organizing healing walks in communities near refineries.

Featured image: «WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA — MAY 3: Oil refinery is shown on May 3, 2010 near Williston, North Dakota.

Neighboring businesses could also impact your rates — for example, if your business is located near an oil refinery or fireworks factory, your property insurance rates may be higher.

If you own a home near a manufacturing site or oil refinery, it could be considered a higher risk location due to the chance of accidents or reduced air quality.