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Refinery Explosion Rocks Texas Town
 New  News Date: February 18, 2008
An explosion rocked a west Texas oil refinery Monday in a violent blast that shook buildings miles away and injured at least four people, according to the town's mayor...
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  • Fire at Frontier Oil's Cheyenne refinery

  • Fire at Frontier Oil's Cheyenne refinery
     Recent  News Date: December 17, 2007
    CHEYENNE – Fire broke out in the delayed coking unit of Frontier Oil’s Cheyenne refinery on the evening of Dec. 15...
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  • Fire at Frontier Oil's Cheyenne refinery

  • Worker Killed at BP Texas City Refinery
    News Date: June 8, 2007
    A contract worker at BP's Texas City, Texas, oil refinery was killed June 6 while working on an idle unit that was being reconditioned prior to restart...
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  • Worker Killed at BP Texas City Refinery

  • Oil refinery fire raises concern
    News Date: January 15, 2007
    Prices could rise if Chevron site goes offline...
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  • Oil refinery fire raises concern

  • Marathon to Issue Request for Proposals Aimed at Canadian Oil Sands Venture
    News Date: November 6, 2006
    Marathon Oil Corporation has announced plans to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to engage interested parties in a process that could lead to a Canadian oil sands venture. The Company also announced that it has awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) for a proposed heavy oil upgrading project at the Company's 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) Detroit refinery, and that it is undertaking a feasibility study for a similar upgrading project at the Company's 222,000 bpd Catlettsburg, Ky., refinery.
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  • Marathon to Issue Request for Proposals Aimed at Canadian Oil Sands Venture

  • United Refining Company Announces Delay in Coker Project
    News Date: October 2, 2006
    WARREN, Pa., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- United Refining Company, a leading regional refiner and marketer of petroleum products, announced today that it was delaying the implementation of its previously announced plan for construction of a coker and related infrastructure.
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  • United Refining Company Announces Delay in Coker Project

  • BP Plans $3 Billion Project to Refine More Canadian Heavy Crude Oil in the U.S. Midwest
    News Date: Septemer 20, 2006
    WHITING, Ind., Sept 20, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- BP announced today that it has entered the final planning stage of a $3 billion investment in Canadian heavy crude oil processing at its Whiting Refinery located in northwest Indiana.
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  • BP Plans $3 Billion Project to Refine More Canadian Heavy Crude Oil in the U.S. Midwest

  • Foster Wheeler Awarded Spanish Delayed Coker Contract By BP
    News Date: September 13, 2006
    HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2006--Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) today announced that its subsidiary Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a detailed engineering, procurement and construction supervision contract by BP Oil Refineria de Castellon, S.A. (BP) for a new delayed coker at BP's Castellon Refinery in Spain.
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  • Foster Wheeler Awarded Spanish Delayed Coker Contract By BP

  • Foster Wheeler awarded EPC contract by Sinclair Oil for delayed coker in US
    News Date: September, 2006
    Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that its subsidiary Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Sinclair Oil Corporation for a 30,000 barrel per stream day (bpsd) delayed coker, gas plant and coke handling facilities at its refinery at Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
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  • Foster Wheeler awarded EPC contract by Sinclair Oil for delayed coker in US

  • Foster Wheeler Wins Contract in India for Design of the World's Largest Delayed Coker
    News Date: June 26, 2006
    HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that its subsidiary Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract for a new eight-drum delayed coking unit to be installed as part of the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project at the Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat State, India, where Reliance Group's first refinery was also built and has been operating since 1998.
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  • Foster Wheeler Wins Contract in India for Design of the World's Largest Delayed Coker

  • Major Oil Pool Discovered in Gulf of Mexico
    News Date: September 5, 2006
    WASHINGTON (Sept. 5) - A trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation's reserves by more than 50 percent. A test well indicates it could be the biggest new domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay a generation ago.
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  • Major Oil Pool Discovered in Gulf of Mexico

  • Six companies interested in Lyondell-Citgo refinery
    News Date: July 7, 2006
    HOUSTON (MarketWatch) -- Six contenders have come forward as potentially serious bidders for a Houston refinery jointly owned by Lyondell Chemical Corp. (LYO) and Venezuela's state-owned oil company, two people familiar with the negotiations say.
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  • Six companies interested in Lyondell-Citgo refinery

  • L.A. Starks: Our vulnerable refineries
    News Date: June 25, 2006
    One Gulf Coast attack or hurricane could devastate the U.S.
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  • L.A. Starks: Our vulnerable refineries

  • Bush and Congress Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production
    News Date: May 25, 2006
    American supply of energy is being strangled by the policies of U.S. federal and state governments.
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  • Bush and Congress Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production

  • Refinery blast reported in south La., no injuries reported
    News Date: May 23, 2006
    NORCO, La. -- A fire and explosion at the Valero St. Charles Refinery in Norco late Saturday shut down a portion of the refinery, but caused no injuries.
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  • Refinery blast reported in south La., no injuries reported

  • U.S. energy secretary touts refinery expansion
    News Date: May 18, 2006
    PORT ARTHUR - U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman urged expansion of domestic refining capacity in remarks made at the Motiva Enterprises motor fuels plant that is on the verge of a $3.5 billion expansion project.
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  • U.S. energy secretary touts refinery expansion

  • Italian refinery fire boosts gasoline futures
    News Date: May 2, 2006
    The price of crude oil reached above $73/bbl May 1 while gasoline futures prices soared on news of a fire at a Sicily, Italy, refinery. Analysts said the fire triggered a rally across energy markets.
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  • Italian refinery fire boosts gasoline futures

  • Crude Futures Tops $74 A Barrel
    News Date: May 1, 2006
    Oil prices rose above $74 a barrel Tuesday -- flirting with their record high above $75 reached last month -- amid concern that international pressure on Iran to modify its nuclear program may lead to supply disruptions from the key exporter.
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  • Crude Futures Tops $74 A Barrel

  • Oil prices rise above $73 on persistent Iran concerns
    News Date: May 1, 2006
    NEW YORK — Crude oil prices rose above $73 a barrel yesterday on supply concerns after Iran defied a U.N. Security Council deadline to stop enriching uranium. Also lifting energy prices yesterday were refinery outages in Italy and California, and violence in Nigeria, the fifth-largest source of U.S. oil imports.
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  • Oil prices rise above $73 on persistent Iran concerns

  • BP Reduces 1st-Qtr Refinery Maintenance; Output Falls
    News Date: April 5, 2006
    April 5 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc, the world's second-biggest oil company, said its refining business recovered in the first quarter after losing money at the end of last year.
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  • BP Reduces 1st-Qtr Refinery Maintenance; Output Falls

  • Saudi Forces Kill Five Terrorism Suspects
    News Date: February 27, 2006
    CAIRO, Egypt (Feb. 27) - Saudi security forces on Monday shot dead five suspected terrorists believed to be involved in a foiled attack on the world's biggest oil processing complex, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. A sixth suspect was arrested.
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  • Saudi Forces Kill Five Terrorism Suspects

  • CNRL Coker Project Photo's

  • CNRL Coker Project Photo's


  • Canada oil sands to help meet Bush Mideast oil cut
    News Date: February 3, 2006
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  • Canada oil sands to help meet Bush Mideast oil cut

  • We're not running out of oil says record-breaking Shell
    News Date: February 2, 2006
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  • We're not running out of oil says record-breaking Shell

  • Oil Price History and Analysis
    News Date: 2005
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  • Oil Price History and Analysis

  • UK Oil Depot Fire 'largest of kind'
    News Date: December 12, 2005
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  • UK Oil Depot Fire 'largest of kind'

  • Massive blaze rages at fuel depot.
    News Date: December 12, 2005
    The man in charge of investigating the massive fires at a Hertfordshire oil depot on Sunday says the flames may have destroyed all clues to the cause.
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  • Massive blaze rages at fuel depot.

  • Refinery project moves forward; Mexico agrees to pipeline plan
    News Date: November 23, 2005
    In what backers describe as a pivotal step toward a refinery east of Yuma, a local group has struck a deal with the Mexican government to build a major pipeline that would link the proposed refinery to the Mexican coast.
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  • Refinery project moves forward; Mexico agrees to pipeline plan

  • Arizona Oil Refinery Project Reaches Milestone With Proposed Crude Oil Pipeline
    News Date: November 22, 2005
    Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma (ACFY) announced today that it has reached an understanding with the Secretariat of Energy of Mexico (SENER) confirming that the company may carry out the construction, operation and maintenance, and ownership of a pipeline to deliver company-owned crude oil to the ACFY refinery planned for Yuma County, Arizona.
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  • Arizona Oil Refinery Project Reaches Milestone With Proposed Crude Oil Pipeline

  • US to buy Venezuelan gasoline, mull Cuban offer of doctors
    News Date: September 8, 2005
    WASHINGTON (AFX) - The US will pay for gasoline Venezuela offered after Hurricane Katrina cut US production, and will examine whether Cuban doctors can work on US soil without US certification, a top US diplomat said Thursday...
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  • US to buy Venezuelan gasoline, mull Cuban offer of doctors

  • Energy Department begins release of oil from stockpile
    News Date: August 31, 2005
    WASHINGTON (AFX) - The administration said Wednesday it approved the release of oil from the country's emergency stockpiles in the Gulf of Mexico for one company impacted by Hurricane Katrina, and is reviewing...
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  • Energy Department begins release of oil from stockpile

  • Retail Gasoline Prices
    News Date: August 29, 2005
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  • Retail Gasoline Prices U.S.

  • Chávez taunts US with oil offer
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    News Date: August 25, 2005
    Venezuelan president hits back at assassination remarks with offer of cheap petroleum for poor Americans...
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  • Chávez taunts US with oil offer