Thirteen years before the explosion at BP's Texas City refinery, federal investigators warned that a portion of the plant was constructed to allow flammable gases to escape from a ventilation stack, ...

Don Holmstrom, lead CSB investigator for the Texas City investigation, told reporters on June 28 that CSB's evidence indicates several "alarms that should have warned operators of abnormal conditions ...

Essar Oil Ltd. has commissioned a large C 5-C 6 isomerization unit at its 300,000-b/d Vadinar refinery under expansion and upgrade in Gujarat, India (OGJ Online, Oct. 24, 2011). The unit, part of an ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 26-- Preem Raffinaderi AB has awarded Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. of the UK a $34 million contract for engineering and procurement of a isomerization unit revamp at its Gothenburg, ...

The section of the Texas City refinery that exploded three weeks ago, leaving more people dead and injured than any U.S. industrial accident in 15 years, has a troubled past that includes fires, ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTC Technology has provided its low-temperature Isomalk-2℠ process technology for the successful start-up of a light naphtha isomerization unit at the Bharat Petroleum ...

Three years after the explosion that killed 15 workers and injured 180 others at the BP Texas City refinery, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board has released a new, comprehensive safety video that ...

The PetroKazakhstan Oil Products Company owned by Kazakh KazMunaiGas and Chinese CNPC on a parity basis and China's СРЕСС signed a contract to build a naphtha isomerization unit at the Shymkent ...

"The company licensor said that the construction of isomerization designed for Shymkent refinery, is high-tech and meets the latest requirements of world standards," first vice-president of ...