Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says that the United States Government has approved Petroleos Mexicanos’ bid to purchase Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Deer Park refinery. Pemex has been waiting for approval from the U.S. Treasury Department to purchase Shell's stake in the Deer Park refinery. The purchase of the Deer Park refinery will cost [...]
Mexico's state-owned oil giant, Pemex, agreed in May to buy Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s majority stake in the Deer Park refinery. The Deer Park refinery posted a rare net loss of $360 million this year. Its forced shutdown in February led the refinery to post losses through July. The refinery's debt has soared past $1 [...]
Officials in La Porte issued an "all clear" around midnight Sunday after reports of a mystery odor coming from Lubrizol Corp in Deer Park. The shelter-in-place order for Seabrook was lifted Monday morning. The odor was identified as mercaptan, which is also known as methanethiol, and is an organic sulfur matter. The odor has been [...]
Harris County is working to give out nearly $2 million to people who are behind in rent. The money comes from the federal government, and the money needs to be used by the end of July. Federal evictions protections will be over by the end of July. The money remaining in the pot can help [...]
A massive fire broke out in March 2019 at Intercontinental Terminals Company's facility in Deer Park. It spread to almost a dozen other tanks, and a plume of smoke lingered over the Houston skyline for three days. During the fire, residents in Deer Park were forced to shelter in place due to the hazards of [...]
Mexico will purchase Shell's 50% share of the jointly owned Deer Park refinery for $600 million, officials said Monday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's central policy is to build, acquire or renovate oil refineries, and this purchase is part of that policy. López Obrador sees oil as a key part of Mexico's economic future. The [...]
The Intercontinental Terminals Company 2019 Deer Park fire led to a $900,000 settlement that will be paid to Harris County. The fire was caused when a tank containing a flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture started fire and then spread to nearby tanks. The fire burned for several days and resulted in schools and businesses being forced [...]
Royal Dutch Shell Plc in Deer Park on Friday restarted a crude unit that was shut down February 14. The unit restarted was their small crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 318,000-barrel-per-day facility. The 70,000 bpd unit was shut in February by a pump seal failure. DU-1 is the last unit shut in February to [...]
Royal Dutch Shell Plc shut the CDUs (crude distillation units) at its Deer Park, Texas, refinery due to a malfunction Sunday. The 318,000 barrel-per-day facility shut down the 70,000-bpd DU-1 CDU and then the 240,000-bpd DU-2 CDU, according to sources. The CDUs were shut due to a failed seal on a pump that provides feedstock [...]
Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to begin restarting its gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker (FCC) Monday night. The restart is scheduled to begin at its 318,000 barrel-per-day joint-venture refinery in Deer Park, Texas. The FCC was shut down on January 11 to repair a leak that followed a malfunction in the unit's expander. FCCS use a [...]