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Apr 14, 2024 · What was once a gargantuan oil refining complex that looked like a city itself is now just empty land undergoing cleanup, with mounds of dug up soil, muddy pools of water and jagged concrete...
Oct 19, 2023 · The company has been demolishing the refinery’s tangle of pipes, tanks, and buildings ahead of schedule — and Monday, officially kicked off vertical construction on the southern portion of the site.
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Aug 10, 2023 · A small refinery in western Pennsylvania, the United Refining Company in Warren, had by far the worst safety record, with 119 injuries and no deaths over this period, according to federal records. That was 10 times the average for a refinery.
Sep 16, 2024 · Four years after the largest oil refinery on the East Coast shut down, residents in South and Southwest Philadelphia still don’t know what will come next.
In the early morning of June 21, 2019, a fire and multiple explosions occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A release of hydrocarbons and hydrofluoric acid in the refinery's alkylation unit caused a ground-hugging vapor cloud which rapidly ignited, leading to three separate explosions ...
Oct 11, 2022 · A critical part of the PES refinery was destroyed, resulting in an estimated $750 million in property damage and leading to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the loss of more than 1,000 jobs.
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Feb 24, 2020 · Last week, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the sale of the 1,300-acre property to a company with no plans to restart the refinery. A refinery complex has been situated along the...
