-DuPont will spend $2.3 million to train employees and improve chemical release response in the wake of a series of leaks from its Kanawha County, W.Va., production facility between 2006 and 2010. DuPont will also pay $1.275 million in fines as part of a settlement with the federal government. One worker died as a result of a phosgene leak at the plant in 2010
-CVR Refining said today it restarted its fire-damaged Coffeyville, Kan., refinery last week. The July 29 blaze damaged the refinery’s isomerization unit and its distributive controls system.
-Dakota Plains will add a third 90,000-barrel oil storage tank to its Pioneer Terminal in New Town, N.D. The terminal currently has onsite storage capacity of 180,000 barrels between two tanks and throughput capacity of 45,000 barrels of oil per day. The new tank — in addition to a recently announced gathering pipeline and expanded rail service — will increase the terminal’s throughput rate to 80,000 barrels of oil, or one unit train, per day.
-The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection last week said it had received 243 drinking water well gas contamination complaints since 2007. Via Platts, in many cases, the complaints were temporary and resolved by the operator. None of the complaints were tied to fracking fluids escaping from wellbores and many were due to surface spills. The Marcellus Shale Coalition said the report confirmed that Pennsylvania has “long-standing water well-related challenges.”
-BP launched its 2015 Future Leaders Programme, a recruitment campaign that will allow 30 highly qualified individuals to train and work in the company’s global downstream operations for at least three years. BP said 4,000 people from around the world applied for the program last year.
