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Several injured in blast at ethanol biofuel plant in Illinois (U.S.)

Several employees were injured at an Archer-Daniels-Midland facility in Decatur, Illinois, after an explosion within its processing complex.

TotalEnergies restarted Port Arthur, Texas (U.S.) refinery coker

TotalEnergies restarted the coker at its 238,000-bpd Port Arthur, Texas refinery - the 150,000-pd ACU-1 crude distillation unit and 60,000-bpd vacuum distillation unit-2.

Marathon's Galveston Bay, Texas FCC remains shut

The gasoline-producing FCC at Marathon Petroleum's 593,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, remained shut.

Surveillance camera captures tower collapse at BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemicals facility

A surveillance camera installed at a nearby business captured a tense moment when a tower crumbled during a fire incident at BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemicals facility in Port Arthur.

Connected workers can be empowered by digital transformation

Shiftconnector: Eschbach, A.

Plant safety, product quality and efficient operations in oil and gas processing rely on accurate knowledge transfer between teams and across shifts.

Marathon preparing to restart Garyville, Louisiana, units

Marathon Petroleum is preparing a plan to begin restarting units at its 596,000-bpd Garyville, Louisiana, refinery.

Louisiana oil refinery fire continues to smolder, production curbed

A storage tank fire at a Marathon Petroleum oil refinery that had triggered a temporary evacuation of area residents continue to smolder.

U.S. expands sanctions on Myanamar jet fuel, cites junta airstrikes

The United States expanded its sanctions against Myanmar to include foreign companies or individuals helping the country’s military junta to procure jet fuel that it uses to launch airstrikes on its own people, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.

Los Angeles (U.S.) refineries mostly unaffected by Hurricane Hilary

The five refineries in Los Angeles, California (U.S.) came through Hurricane Hilary's wind and heavy rain mostly unaffected.

Shell, Pemex face fines for Texas chemical plant fire in May

Shell Plc and Pemex each could face more than $1 MM in fines over a Deer Park, Texas, chemical plant fire in May under a lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general.