Thirteen years before the explosion at BP's Texas City refinery, federal investigators warned that a portion of the plant was constructed to allow flammable gases to escape from a ventilation stack, ...

The isomerization process is playing a significant role for refiners in the FSU as they try to maintain gasoline pool octane and comply with more stringent gasoline pool requirements. This article ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 26-- Preem Raffinaderi AB has awarded Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. of the UK a $34 million contract for engineering and procurement of a isomerization unit revamp at its Gothenburg, ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTC Technology has provided its low-temperature Isomalk-2℠ process technology for the successful start-up of a light naphtha isomerization unit at the Bharat Petroleum ...

The section of the Texas City refinery that exploded three weeks ago, leaving more people dead and injured than any U.S. industrial accident in 15 years, has a troubled past that includes fires, ...

Three years after the explosion that killed 15 workers and injured 180 others at the BP Texas City refinery, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board has released a new, comprehensive safety video that ...

Don Holmstrom, lead CSB investigator for the Texas City investigation, told reporters on June 28 that CSB's evidence indicates several "alarms that should have warned operators of abnormal conditions ...

The PetroKazakhstan Oil Products Company owned by Kazakh KazMunaiGas and Chinese CNPC on a parity basis and China's СРЕСС signed a contract to build a naphtha isomerization unit at the Shymkent ...

"The company licensor said that the construction of isomerization designed for Shymkent refinery, is high-tech and meets the latest requirements of world standards," first vice-president of ...