-A fire broke out at Husky Energy’s Lima, Ohio, refinery Saturday night near coke drums that were down for maintenance. Local authorities said a line failure at the top of a penthouse sparked the blaze. The fire was contained within an hour and no injuries were reported.
-Meanwhile, one worker was injured in a fire at a hydrotreater at Pemex’s Tula refinery today. A company spokesman told Reuters the fire lasted less than an hour and that there was no major damage. It is the second fire to hit the refinery this month.
-Yuhuang Chemical officials said the company would begin building the first phase of its $1.85 billion methanol complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana, in late October or early November. Via the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Advocate, the initial, 1.9-million-ton-per-year phase will be complete in the first quarter of 2018.
-The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is set to release new safety rules for transporting oil and other hazardous liquids later this month. Via the Associated Press, the rule will determine if safety rules that apply to environmentally sensitive and heavily populated areas should be imposed in other locations. The recent U.S. oil production boom has resulted in an increase in pipeline incidents, including major oil spills in California and Montana earlier this year.
