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Flint Hills to close Texas polymer plant

Flint Hills Resources, Wichita KS, has announced it will close its Odessa TX polymer facility during the first half of 2009...

IEA calls for improvement in energy efficiency, production

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is calling for improvement of energy efficiency and increasing the deployment of low-carbon energy, according to information presented at the launching of the agency's World Energy Outlook 2008...

Chevron Phillips to relocate certain services

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP has announced plans to relocate services provided by the company’s Orange TX Technology Center to its Plastics Technology Center in Bartlesville OK...

NACD members report continued profitability

The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) has reported that its member firms continued to achieve profitability in 2007, though at slower levels than past years...

New rule proposed
for construction sites

Companies in the tank truck industry that are planning construction at their facilities will want to be aware of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule proposal designed to control the discharge of pollutants from construction sites...

California ports delay collection fee

Collection of the Clean Truck Fee (CTF) assessed by the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach CA scheduled to have begun November 17 will be delayed pending resolution of outstanding regulatory issues...

Vopak acquires company in Turkey

Royal Vopak, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has acquired GY Elyaf ve Iplik Sanayi Ticaret Anonim Sirketi from Global Yatirim Holding AS with plans to construct a storage terminal on the coast of the Sea of Marmara, according to Vopak information....

OPEC pumps 32.26 million b/d of crude oil in October

The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.26 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in October, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials just released...

NACD files comments
on hazmat security

The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) has filed comments with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) on a notice of proposed rulemaking to narrow the list of materials subject to security plan requirements, according to NACD information...

Study finds emissions
in barges, storage areas

Two studies conducted by environmental divisions in Louisiana and Texas uncovered volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from barges in Louisiana and from storage and terminaling facilities in Texas...