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Torrance activists take on refinery; Warn residents about controversial chemical
About 100,000 Torrance residents received public safety warning fliers this week from a neighborhood grassroots volunteer group that fears a serious threat to the community lies within the walls of the Torrance Refinery. “If that thing blew up right now and the hydrofluoric acid leaked, we could not get away from it quick enough,” Steve […]
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New refinery safety laws pass, but ban on deadly chemical stalls
Gov. Jerry Brown signed three new laws this week intended to make local refineries safer for their neighbors. But one big change remains elusive, and that’s a ban on refineries using a toxic chemical known as modified hydrofluoric acid. An explosion at the Torrance refinery in 2015 woke neighbors to the risk that, if released, […]
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Torrance: Department of Justice sues ExxonMobil for 2015 refinery explosion records
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2017 | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit seeking answers to many of the same questions residents have long asked about serious safety issues at the Torrance refinery in the wake of a February 2015 explosion. The 34-page legal brief, filed in U.S. District Court last […]
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DuPont Introduces DuPont™ ConvEx HF Alkylation Conversion and Expansion Technology
Today, DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) announces the launch of the DuPont™ ConvEx? HF alkylation conversion technology, the first cost-effective solution that enables refiners to convert volatile and toxic hydrofluoric acid (HF) alkylation units to the safer sulfuric acid alkylation technology. This new technology also offers refiners the opportunity for significant capacity increases at minimal additional […]
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Marathon Petroleum Company chemical leak in 1987
Excerpt from long article: It’s become an unfortunately appropriate symbol for Texas City, which has suffered disaster after disaster in the years since. In 1987, a chemical leak at a Marathon Petroleum Company facility released hydrofluoric acid into the air, sending 140 people to the hospital, with 900 more treated for respiratory and eye problems […]
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AQMD: Not enough data to prove safety of deadly toxic chemical used at Torrance refinery
Southern California’s air quality watchdog has become the latest regulatory agency to cast doubt on the safety of a potentially deadly chemical used at the Torrance refinery, concluding there is not enough evidence to dismiss concerns that a toxic cloud could form and kill or injure tens of thousands. South Coast Air Quality Management District […]
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Could Torrance Refinery keep toxic leak from homes? No proof yet, AQMD says
Torrance Refinery has not proven that it can contain the spread of a deadly chemical if it were released and formed a dense vapor cloud, according to findings the South Coast Air Quality Management District is scheduled to share in detail on Wednesday. The chemical – Modified Hydrofluoric Acid, or MHF – is the subject […]
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Ban on toxic acid may test Californians’ thirst for cheap fuel
Californians are used to paying more for gasoline, but that may be tested soon if a pair of Los Angeles-area refineries are forced to stop their use of a toxic chemical. The local air-quality regulator indicated this month that it may ban hydrofluoric acid from both PBF Energy’s Torrance refinery and one owned by Valero […]
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Acid leak at Shell refinery Rotterdam; second incident in two days
Emergency services responded en masse to the Shell Pernis refinery in Rotterdam on Monday night after a leak of hydrofluoric acid was discovered. Less than 48 hours earlier, emergency services also responded to the refinery when a short circuit in a high voltage cable caused a fire, NU.nl reports. A very low concentration of the […]
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Europe’s largest oil refinery will be shut down for at least two weeks
Europe’s largest oil refinery will not start running for at least two weeks following a fire, Royal Dutch Shell said today. The oil major shut down most production at Pernis, the 404,000 barrel per day (bpd) oil refinery in the Netherlands, after a fire at a high-voltage electricity switch station on Saturday caused a power […]
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