Oil Refinery Asbestos Companies

Petroleum refineries are a maze of distillation plants, furnaces, reactor units, heat exchangers, tanks, boilers, cooling towers – all interwoven by a network of pipelines, valves, wires, ducts, and pumps. One enormous structure common to many refineries is a catalytic cracking unit (or “cat cracker”) which distills crude oil into gasoline using high temperature heat exchangers, boilers, heaters and pumps. For years these structures were treated with high temperature resistant asbestos insulation, gaskets, packing material, and other asbestos building products. Cat crackers and other refinery structures became especially dangerous worksites during routine maintenance shutdowns or “turnarounds,” when asbestos materials were torn out and disturbed, exposing workers, contractors, and their family members.
Because of their experience in such dangerous environment, refinery workers are at high risk for asbestos exposure. For over a decade, the staff at Simmons Hanly Conroy has worked with hundreds of refinery workers at various plants and in various trades, including: engineers, insulators, electricians, general laborers, pipefitters, millwrights, boilermakers, carpenters, welders, foremen, metal workers, and other crafts. A number of our clients, for instance, worked at the Texaco (Indian) refinery, outside of Lawrenceville, Illinois. Workers at refineries such as this, especially during the 1940s-1970s, were at substantial risk to asbestos exposure.

Asbestos Company Oil Refinery Example

One example of an oil refinery asbestos company is the Texaco Oil Company Refinery, also known as the Indian Refinery. Here is some brief information about this facility and it’s link to asbestos exposure:

• Facility: Texaco Oil Company Refinery (aka Indian Refinery.) Lawrenceville, IL
• Principle Operating Years: 1908-1985
• Ownership: Formed as Central Refining Co and Indian Refining Co in 1908. Acquired by Texaco (now a subsidiary of the Chevron Corporation) from the Indian Refining Company in 1931. Operated by Texaco until 1985.
• Facility: Plant and properties formerly located on 990 acre plot south of Lawrenceville, IL.
• Daily Crude Processing Capacity (1913): 3,000 Barrels
• Daily Crude Processing Capacity (1985): 65,000 Barrels
• Products: gasoline, aviation gasoline, jet fuel, burner, oil, liquid petroleum gas, diesel oil, kerosene, asphalt materials, lube oil, and motor oil.
• Fate: Closed permanently in 1995. Subsequently demolished and designated a hazardous superfund site by the EPA.

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Our clients have worked on staff or as contractors at other various oil refineries across the United States, including:

Advance Oil Refinery- Centralia, ILAmerican Oil Refinery-Morris, IL
Amoco Oil Refinery- Whiting, IN
Amoco Oil Refinery-Casper, WY
Amoco Oil Refinery-Wood River, IL
Arco Oil Refinery- Carson, CA
Arco Refinery- Ferndale, WA
Asamera Oil Refinery- Commerce City, CO
Atlantic Richfield Refinery- Carson, CA
Beyond Petroleum Refinery- Lima, OH
Champlin Oil Refinery- Enid, OK
Chevron Oil Refinery-Manhattan Beach, CA
Cinza Refinery (Marathon)- Gallup, NM
Cities Service Refinery- Chicago, IL
Cities Service Refinery- Lake Charles, LA
Cities Service Refinery-East Chicago, IL
Conoco Refinery – Billings, MT
Conoco Refinery- Denver, CO
Conoco Refinery-Commerce City, CO
Conoco Refinery-East Chicago, IL
Conoco Refinery-Glen Rock, WY
Derby Refinery-Wichita, KS
E.C.I Oil Refinery/Earth Core Investments- Whiting, IN
Empire Petroleum – Commerce City, CO
Exxon Oil Refinery- Baton Rouge, LA
Exxon Mobile- Augusta, KS
Exxon Mobile- Lendale, NJ
Exxon Refinery- Baytown, TX
Frontier Refinery- Cheyenne, WY
Good Hope Oil Refinery – Slidell, LA
Gulf Oil Corporation/Chevron Refinery-Miami, OH
Gulf Oil Refinery/Chevron USA – Hooven, OH
Gulf Refinery- Toledo, OH
Gulf Refinery-Elk City, UT
Indian Refinery aka Texaco Refinery- Lawrenceville, IL
Jupiter Refinery-Lake Charles, LA
Koch Petroleum Corp (Refinery)-Rosemount, MN
Magnolia Petroleum Refinery-Beaumont, TX
Marathon Oil Refinery (Marathon/Ashland)-Robinson, IL
Marathon Oil Refinery- Gramercy, LA
Marathon Refinery- Rock Island, IL
Mobil Oil Refinery- Casper, WY
Mobil Oil Refinery- Joliet, IL
Mobil Oil Refinery-Sauget, IL
NCRA Refinery- McPherson, KS
Ohio Oil Refinery-Robinson, IL