A fire has broken out at a Marathon Petroleum refinery in Texas City, emergency officials say. The Texas City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) first posted about the fire at 12:25 p.m. The ...

Marathon Petroleum continued assessing damage on Friday to the shut residual hydrotreating unit (RHU) at its ...

Marathon's Texas City refinery [Photo: Marathon Petroleum Corporation]. Scott Higgins, a machinist and member of United Steelworkers Local 13-1 who was nearing retirement, died from his injuries ...

A fire and chemical leak broke out at an oil refinery in Louisiana — and it can be seen from space. Residents within a 2-mile radius were evacuated and some schools were sheltering in place.

Texas City officials issued the precautionary shelter-in-place to residents that live along 29th Street and Bay Street after the fire was reported at the Marathon plant Saturday afternoon at about 12: ...

Marathon Petroleum shut the gasoline-making unit of its huge Galveston Bay refinery in Texas, the fourth-largest in the U.S. by capacity, after a fire broke out on Thursday night ...

It’s a photo of the Marathon Petroleum refinery’s flame. The refinery on Gambrinus Avenue SW had a flare due to a compressor problem, according to a Canton Repository article at the time. The ...