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UPDATE 1-Exxon rejects contract offer from Texas refinery union –sources Reuters 10 hrs ago By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, April 30 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday rejected a contract offer from the United Steelworkers union (USW), two days ahead of a threatened lockout of 650 Texas refinery workers by the energy firm, said people familiar with the matter. Talks between the two sides, at the 369,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Beaumont refinery, have been underway since before a six-year contract...

2 Min Read HOUSTON (Reuters) -The United Steelworkers union (USW) called on Exxon Mobil Corp to continue negotiations for a new Beaumont, Texas, refinery contract despite the company’s threat to lock out workers on May 1 if there is no agreement. FILE PHOTO: An Exxon sign is seen at a gas station in the Chicago suburb of Norridge, Illinois, U.S., October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young “These negotiations are not about wages,” said Darrell Kyle, president of USW Local 13-243, which represents...

February’s cold weather shut more U.S. refinery capacity than Hurricane Harvey A severe cold spell in mid-February knocked out a third of U.S. oil refining capacity, according to data compiled by Reuters and Wood Mackenzie. A sharp drop in temperatures that lasted five days shut individual units and sometimes entire plants at 25 refineries in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee. Six million barrels per day (bpd) of national refining capacity was out of production before refin...

Februarys cold weather shut more U.S. refinery capacity than Hurricane Harvey 04/17/2021 5:58 HOUSTON (Reuters) - A severe cold spell in mid-February knocked out a third of U.S. oil refining capacity, according to data compiled by Reuters and Wood Mackenzie. A sharp drop in temperatures that lasted five days shut individual units and sometimes entire plants at 25 refineries in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee. Six million barrels per day (bpd) of national refining capa...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read HOUSTON (Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum Corp restarted the gasoline-producing unit and a reformer at its 585,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, said sources familiar with plant operations. The 140,000-bpd gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker 3 (FCC 3) was increasing production on Friday after it and the 75,000-bpd Ultraformer (UU3) reformer restarted on Thursday night, the sources said. Marathon spokesman Jamal Kheiry decline...

U.S. changes average for hurricane season FILE PHOTO: A couple look out at the roiling surf while the skies darken as Hurricane Dorian approaches, in Carolina Beach, North Carolina HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has changed the number of storms that constitute an average Atlantic hurricane season, the agency said in a statement on Friday. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is using 1991-2020 as the 30-year period-of-record to determine...

"We are forecasting a well-above average hurricane season," said Colorado State research scientist Philip Klotzbach. Written By: Erwin Seba / Reuters | 3:51 pm, Apr. 8, 2021 × FILE PHOTO: A car damaged by the floods due to the rains brought by Hurricanes Eta and Iota, is pictured in Villanueva, Honduras December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas/File Photo HOUSTON, April 8 (Reuters) - The United States should prepare for a sixth year of above-average number of Atlantic hurricanes, Colora...

Houston Ship Channel traffic unaffected by nearby blaze -ship pilots A massive fire at a chemical warehouse sending a huge plume of smoke over east Houston had no impact on vessel traffic along the Houston Ship Channel, said the Houston ship pilots association on Wednesday. The fire is north of the waterway through which crude oil, motor fuels and petrochemicals move in and out of the nation’s busiest energy port, said J.J. Plunkett, port agent for the Houston Pilots. The fire broke out at a ...

4 Min Read HOUSTON (Reuters) - The United States should prepare for a sixth year of above-average number of Atlantic hurricanes, Colorado State University (CSU) forecasters said in the first official 2021 outlook on Thursday. Slideshow ( 2 images ) The closely-watched outlook points to an active year, but below the vast scale of 2020’s season. Last year saw a record of 30 named storms that ran through the initial 21 chosen names and required nine Greek letters. Colorado State forecasters on T...

U.S. could face a sixth year of above-average Atlantic storms - forecasters Reuters 4 hrs ago By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - The United States should prepare for a sixth year of above-average number of Atlantic hurricanes, Colorado State University (CSU) forecasters said in the first official 2021 outlook on Thursday. The closely-watched outlook points to an active year, but below the vast scale of 2020s season. Last year saw a record of 30 named storms that ran through the initial 21 ch...