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GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — A massive fire at a south Louisiana oil refinery sent a tower of black smoke billowing into the air above the Mississippi River on Friday, forcing nearby residents to ...
Update, 4:29 p.m.: The Lafourche Parish Facebook Page has been designated as the official source of info for the Raceland oil spill. A hotline was established for wildlife affected by the spill.
By evening, Louisiana State Police had determined a lightning strike caused the single-tank fire at the Calcasieu Refining Co. tank farm in Lake Charles shortly before 2 p.m., the agency said.
Oil City is a town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. The population was 1,008 at the time of the 2010 census . [ 2 ] Oil City is located on Louisiana Highway 1 , north of Caddo Lake .
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port ( LOOP) is a deepwater port in the Gulf of Mexico 29 kilometers (18 nautical miles) [ 1] off the coast of Louisiana near the town of Port Fourchon. LOOP provides tanker offloading and temporary storage services for crude oil transported on some of the largest tankers in the world.
ExxonMobil 's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [ 1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [ 2] The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began ...
The toxic gas ethylene oxide (EtO) is detectable in southeastern Louisiana at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, according to a new study. EtO emissions largely come from ...
The Los Angeles City Oil Field is a large oil field north of Downtown Los Angeles. Long and narrow, it extends from immediately south of Dodger Stadium west to Vermont Avenue, encompassing an area of about four miles (6 km) long by a quarter-mile across. Its former productive area amounts to 780 acres (3.2 km 2 ).