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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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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.
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posted on
11/01/2009 2:38:18 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
How long has it been down?
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
(=)
To: blam
They got slapped with $81 million in proposed OSHA fines.
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posted on
11/01/2009 2:52:54 PM PST
by
Eagle Eye
(3%)
To: Repeal The 17th
How long has it been down? Since the beginning of September, apparantly.
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posted on
11/01/2009 2:53:10 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
To: IronJack
Don’t think this one was dormant but rather the one that had the multi fatality explosion.
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posted on
11/01/2009 2:54:57 PM PST
by
Eagle Eye
(3%)
To: IronJack
Not dormant, big employer right down the road from me.
To: blam
Here’s to lower gasoline prices.
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posted on
11/01/2009 3:10:47 PM PST
by
CPT Clay
(Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
To: blam
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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)
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)
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".)
To: Cheetahcat
BP acquired Amoco about 15 years ago.
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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)
To: OrangeHoof
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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.)
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.
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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)
To: Cheetahcat
Its a free market. American companies get to buy foreign ones and the traffic works both ways....
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.
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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)
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!!
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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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