James Peace, a 37-year-old Deer Park dad, was arrested for slapping a 12-year-old boy over the weekend. He's been charged with injury to a child under 15. According to the victim, he and his friend were walking home from school in the 2800 block of Santa Fe. A man pulled up to them, and they [...]
A Deer Park family is warning others after a contractor scammed an elderly cancer patient of more than $19,000. Charla Goodwin hired an out-of-state contractor to fix her house after Hurricane Harvey had flooded her home with nearly a foot of water. According to Goodwin, her contractor, Kelvin Robins, created a contract and started the [...]
LyondellBasell has launched contract talks with nearly 500 union workers at its Houston oil refinery. The talks have begun nearly three years after they and thousands of other refinery workers walked off job sites in a national strike. The current contract started in 2015 and expires January 31. A new contract would be combined with [...]
Royal Dutch Shell PLC reported emissions from its refinery in Deer Park, Texas today following a leak of benzene. Shell said the emissions happened over a four-hour period on October 25. They said the cause was rooted in an October 10 incident at the refinery and chemical facility. The material leaking, benzene, has carcinogenic properties. [...]
Royal Dutch Shell Plc began the process of restarting its 325,700 barrel per day Deer Park refinery on Monday night. Shell was restarting the Deer Park refinery's 270,000 bpd DU-2 crude distillation unit, which is the larger of the two CDUs at the Deer Park refinery. Shell shut down the refinery on August 27 due [...]
The 2017 Chemical Sector Security Summit took place in Houston last week. The event was co-sponsored by DHS and the Chemical Sector Coordinating Council, and the summit is all about sharing best practices related to chemical sites and their security. Speakers discussed that terrorists are seeking out and using chemicals such as those created throughout [...]
A Facebook photo of a Deer Park man on a motorcycle with a baby has led to his arrest. The man has been charged with child abandonment and endangerment by the Deer Park Police Department. Both the Liberty County Sheriff's Office and Deer Park Police Department received numerous complaints and calls regarding the man and [...]
Vopak North America and regulatory agencies came to an agreement to strengthen air pollution controls at the company's chemical storage and wastewater treatment facility in Deer Park. Alleged Clean Air Act violations at the Deer Park facility led to the agreement, which is meant to improve Vopak's compliance with state and federal laws. The EPA, [...]
The Keystone XL Pipeline could bring more than 800,000 barrels of Canadian oil to the area's coastal refineries. If and when the the pipeline is completed, those barrels coming from the northern oil sands would run into competition for refinery access with oil from Latin American countries. Mexico relies on coastal U.S. refineries since its [...]
A new polyisobutylene unit is under construction at the Lubrizol Deer Park facility. Lubrizol Corp. is in the midst of a 10-year phased investment plan which includes infrastructure additions such as the new unit. Lubrizol invested $125 million to build the plant in 2012 as part of an expansion in PVC. The new unit is [...]