POTTER TWP. – Shell crews plan to reinforce portions of a ground flare stack at the company’s Beaver County ethane cracker plant — using water to cool the external areas in the meantime.

The Valero Refinery in Benicia reported flaring Wednesday morning, according to the fire department.

The refinery tells the fire department that the flare stacks will be operating intermittently for several hours.

A power outage at the Monroe Energy facility in Marcus Hook, Pa., likely caused a gas odor that was reported in New Castle ...

Smokestack fires erupt at BP refinery in Indiana by CBS Chicago on YouTube. Video posted on social media showed several stacks erupting with flames and plumes of black smoke.

The Valero Refinery in Benicia is anticipating flaring for “several hours” Wednesday due to a mechanical issue, according to ...

A power outage hit Monroe Energy just after 6 a.m., causing an emergency shutdown of refinery units, according to the ...

Phillips 66 has partially shut its 258,500 barrel-per-day Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, after rainstorms in the ...

Flare stacks help reduce this environmental impact by burning the methane into carbon dioxide and water. Nevertheless, this still has a significant environmental impact. In 2021 alone, 144 billion ...

An ammonia flare stack is shown at the CF Industries at Port Neal. Completion of a $2 billion ammonia plant is nearly complete, and then a 200-foot flame will shoot out of the stack for a couple ...