Eleven years after a refinery blast rattled homes across the South Bay, the same controversial chemical at the heart of that ...

The Torrance Refinery, though, has repeatedly said modified hydrofluoric acid is the safest, most commercial viable catalyst ...

ExxonMobil's 588,000 b/d Baytown, Texas, refinery had an unplanned shutdown of its alkylation unit due to a compressor trip that started on Monday, the company notified the Texas Commission on ...

The head of a federal agency investigating last Friday’s explosions and fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions called the incident “catastrophic” and said the main unit where blasts occurred is ...

As the South Bay community marks the 10th anniversary of an explosion at Torrance Refinery, advocates and elected officials are renewing their efforts to ban modified hydrofluoric acid at the facility ...

File - Flames and smoke emerge from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, June 21, 2019. Hydrogen fluoride, which can travel for miles, was released, but most was ...