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BP Restarts Texas City Refinery Reformer -Filing
Reuters ^ | 11-1-2009

Posted on 11/01/2009 2:38:17 PM PST by blam

BP Restarts Texas City Refinery Reformer -Filing

Sun Nov 1, 2009 5:20pm EST

HOUSTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - BP Plc (BP.L) (BP.N) began restarting Ultraformer No. 4 at its 475,000 barrel per day (bpd) Texas City, Texas, refinery on Sunday, according to a notice filed on Saturday with state pollution regulators.

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(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; energt; energy; oil; refinery
Someone 'in-the-know' will be along shortly to tell us how this will impact the price of gasoline, etc.
1 posted on 11/01/2009 2:38:18 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

How long has it been down?


2 posted on 11/01/2009 2:47:59 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: blam

Doesn’t it seem a bit odd that crude is plummeting on reduced demand and yet the world’s largest oil company is reactivating a dormant refinery?


3 posted on 11/01/2009 2:52:19 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: blam

They got slapped with $81 million in proposed OSHA fines.


4 posted on 11/01/2009 2:52:54 PM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Repeal The 17th
How long has it been down?

Since the beginning of September, apparantly.

5 posted on 11/01/2009 2:53:10 PM PST by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: IronJack

Don’t think this one was dormant but rather the one that had the multi fatality explosion.


6 posted on 11/01/2009 2:54:57 PM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: IronJack

Not dormant, big employer right down the road from me.


7 posted on 11/01/2009 3:02:13 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: blam

Here’s to lower gasoline prices.


8 posted on 11/01/2009 3:10:47 PM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: blam

Won’t make any difference. Valero is actually cutting back on some refining due to low demand.

http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10002417/chevron-ceo-oreilly-refining-outlook-looks-sloppy-through-2011/


9 posted on 11/01/2009 3:11:32 PM PST by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: blam
Why is British Petroleum doing anything on Our soil?
10 posted on 11/01/2009 3:20:23 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Cheetahcat
Why is British Petroleum doing anything on Our soil?

Because they bought out another company who had the plant there. AMOCO, if I recall right.

11 posted on 11/01/2009 3:41:14 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
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To: Cheetahcat

BP acquired Amoco about 15 years ago.


12 posted on 11/01/2009 3:42:31 PM PST by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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To: OrangeHoof

ARCO also.


13 posted on 11/01/2009 3:47:00 PM PST by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Because they bought out another company who had the plant there. AMOCO, if I recall right.”

They should not be here this country is not the third world yet.


14 posted on 11/01/2009 4:11:54 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Cheetahcat

Its a free market. American companies get to buy foreign ones and the traffic works both ways....


15 posted on 11/01/2009 4:50:04 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Fred Hayek
BP acquired Amoco about 15 years ago.”

Thats right and Arco and the north slope Oil then promptly spike the price of west coast Gas by selling to Japan, Make a note that was Our Oil.

16 posted on 11/01/2009 5:03:24 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Its a free market. American companies get to buy foreign ones and the traffic works both ways....”

No not with BP it is a one way street they let the Americans go in Houston Among other things and put Britt's in their place I have no use for them. Why the peanut gallery for BP all the profit goes back to the UK!!

17 posted on 11/01/2009 5:07:14 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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