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Apr 14, 2024 · It’s happened before. ... It wasn’t the first time the 150-year-old refinery had caught on fire. ... PES is no longer functioning as a refining company, but Sunoco, whose subsidiary Evergreen ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Charles Hook was scheduled to work an early morning shift at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery June 21, 2019. But a delayed shipment meant he stayed home in Audubon, New Jersey. “I went back to sleep,” he said. “4:21 [a.m.], the explosion happened.”. Hook’s wife was awake, getting ready for work, when she heard the “big ...
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Analysts expressed surprise that the entire refinery will be shuttered. PES includes two separate refineries — Girard Point and Point Breeze, which Sunoco merged into one refinery in 1995. The fire took out the Girard Point facility but the Point Breeze part of the plant has continued to operate since the explosion. Together, the two facilities had...
The explosion early Friday morning of liquefied petroleum gas, which includes products like propane and butane, sent a fireball into the air and black smoke billowing across the region. The fire took a day and a half to extinguish and destroyed the alkylation unit that turned crude oil into gasoline. Four employees were injured. TheChemical Safety ...
Matt Walker, community outreach director for the Clean Air Council, cited the refinery’s pollution history. In the previous three years, the site has been cited for Clean Air Act violations in nine of 12 quarters. It has not been in compliance with the Clean Water Act for any of the past 12 quarters. “And so to hear news that it may be closing will...
Oil refining took place in South Philadelphia since 1870, first at Point Breeze and later at Girard Point, with both facilities later purchased by Sunoco. The Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery, closed in 2019, was the “single largest contributor to the toxic and hazardous air pollution in the City of Philadelphia,” says Marilyn Howarth.
Initial Notification: Explosion at Sunoco Oil Refinery at approx 10:10 pm Sunday Major Oil Refinery Fire in Marcus Hook, PA, 15 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Sun Oil Co. refinery has an Ethelyne Oxide fire. Major Explosion. Sun Officials: All employees accounted for. Fire is under control as of 11:35pm, but continues to burn. No evacuations ...
Feb 24, 2020 · When Sunoco’s Eagle Point refinery across the Delaware River in West Deptford, New Jersey, shut down permanently in 2010 — seven refineries have ceased to exist on the East Coast in the last ...
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Jun 27, 2019 · A massive fire caused a series of explosions at a South Philadelphia oil refinery June 21. It took several days for officials to extinguish the fire, but questions remain over how caused it and ...
