The Pembroke refinery, which is in the process of being sold to Valero, has a daily capacity of 210,000 barrels. It processes crude from the North Sea, Russia and West Africa into diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.  More »

An explosion in a storage tank caused a fire at Chevron’s Pembroke oil refinery in west Wales Thursday, killing four contractors and seriously injuring another worker.  More »

Valero’s refinery and Texas City plants owned by BP and Marathon lost power early May 27. A spokesman for Valero declined to estimate when its refinery would be operating normally.  More »

A broken power line insulator may be behind outages in Texas City and LaMarque that knocked some refineries offline Friday morning. Power was restored later in the day.  More »

Weaker demand, weather woes fail to cloud prospects for gasoline makers. (Via MarketWatch)  More »

Small changes in the use of open flames, or flares, to burn off pressurized gases at oil refineries and chemical plants could help improve Houston’s air quality, a new study suggests.  More »

Houston-based Endicott Biofuels and Dallas-based oil refiner Holly Corp. said the new venture, called Sabine Biofuels, is building a 30 million gallon-a-year plant that will be able to convert a range of fats and oils to biodiesel fuel.  More »

Gasoline futures are heading for the biggest monthly drop in a year as demand shrinks, refiners bring spare capacity back on line after maintenance and plants in Louisiana avoid damage from Mississippi River floods.  More »

Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Claire McCaskill of Missouri are leading a push for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate potential price fixing by oil refiners allegedly cutting back their production of refined gasoline to restrict U.S. fuel supplies.  More »

Mississippi River water pouring through 11 gates on Louisiana’s Morganza floodway means the river crested at about 17 feet in New Orleans, 2.5 feet below the forecast, and is expected to top out at 45 feet in Baton Rouge, reducing the risk of flooding to oil refineries that account for about 14 percent of U.S. capacity.  More »

Gasoline prices nationally and Texas dropped slightly this weekend, delaying what some see as an inevitable return to $4 per gallon.  More »

Nine of the 125 gates at Louisiana’s Morganza floodway opened yesterday, allowing the muddy Mississippi to pour into the Atchafalaya River basin and putting at risk about 10 percent of Louisiana’s onshore oil and gas wells as part of a strategy to save industrial areas that include an Exxon Mobil refinery.  More »