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Sunoco: Refineries
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Sunoco ... emphasizes safety training, all part of the strategy to minimize shutdowns and losses. At a cluster of consoles used for training, Rickey Small, a 20-year refinery veteran, is harvesting data from operations to create training simulations.
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OREGON -- "The federal government said yesterday that it will require Sunoco to invest $285 million at its four refineries, including the one on Woodville Road in Oregon, to settle outstanding Clean Air Act violations. Though Sunoco wouldn't say just how much of the $285 million would be spent at the Oregon facility, nearly half the company's total reductions for sulfur dioxide are to come from that plant alone, according to Ohio EPA figures. The refinery last year was fined $475,000 by the Ohio Attorney General's office for excessive sulfur dioxide emissions dating to 1988. The refinery will be required to reduce its annual sulfur dioxide emissions by 18.8 million pounds over current levels. The government requires Sunoco to reduce its emissions of that pollutant by 39 million pounds a year companywide. Sulfur dioxide is a major lung irritant and potential trigger of childhood asthma that was a focus of a recent health study performed in the East Toledo-Oregon area by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry," Tom Henry, Toledo Blade.
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Several projects are under way to increase the nation's refining capacity and reduce imports, which could blunt Sunoco's edge. Motiva Enterprises LLC, a joint venture between Shell Oil Co. and Saudi Refining Inc., recently began work on expanding its Port Arthur, Texas, facility. The $7 billion project will more than double its capacity to 610 million barrels per day, surpassing the ExxonMobil Corp.'s Baytown, Texas, refinery as the nation's largest.
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Campbell retired in June 2000 as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sunoco, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a petroleum refiner and marketer. He is a director of CIGNA Corporation and Vical Incorporated. A Hershey director since 1995, Campbell chairs the Compensation and Executive Organization Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee and Executive Committee. In 2001, Mr. Campbell was named one of "Corporate America's Outstanding Directors" by the editors of "Corporate Alert."
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OREGON -- "For the second time in eight days, unexpected benzene contamination has halted work on the $100 million hydrogen production complex that BOC Group Inc. is having built at the Sunoco Inc. refinery. About 200 construction workers were sent home Tuesday morning because tests showed benzene levels were above the government's safety threshold of 1 part per million again, Kristina Schurr, BOC spokesman, said. She said she was not sure how high the cancer-causing levels of benzene had risen," Toledo Blade.
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Sunoco, with more than 4,300 employees, says it saw this coming. Over the last 15 years, it bought local refineries from Arco, Chevron and El Paso Corp. It has been linking them to work together in ways that increase output by reducing the impact when sections are taken down for maintenance or repairs.
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