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

Flaring at the Martinez Refinery Company early Friday morning prompted a company report to health officials and a subsequent ...

After Iran launched missiles at Israeli cities in retaliation for strikes on nuclear and military facilities, a video of a ...

A contractor ruptured a water pipe at the BP Whiting Refinery this week. The contractor hit a 12-inch water line in the J&L Tank Field on the east side of Calumet Avenue between 129th Street and ...

A February explosion and massive fire at a Martinez refinery happened because there were not enough contracted workers and insufficient training and supervision for those who were hired to do the ...

An independent consultant’s draft report blames an explosion and massive fire at a Martinez refinery in February on inadequate personnel at the plant, and insufficient training and supervision ...

Crews in the Crockett area knocked down a brush fire near an oil refinery early Thursday morning, officials said. Just before 3 a.m. Thursday, crews responded to reports of a brush fire off San ...

bp has restarted a crude distillation unit at its Rotterdam oil refinery on the morning of June 4, having shut the 200,000-bpd unit because of an unplanned outage the previous day, consultancy Wood ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. (KGO) -- A critical report out now slams the Martinez Refining Company over a three-day fire that burned back in February. The report examines what's to blame for the blaze.

Scant supervision, inexperienced workers and even hard-to-read instructions contributed to a major fire that broke out at ...

The aurora borealis was visible in the northernmost part of the Bay Area between the night of May 31 and the morning of June 1, 2025. (Alexander Glavtchev).