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Picken's Plastics history
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Pickens, a 1951 graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in geology, had worked for Phillips in one of his first jobs in the oil industry.
The Phillips empire by 1979 included 8,400 miles of pipelines, nine crude oil tankers at sea, five U.S oil refineries, 14 chemical plants, and 13,600 service stations.
By 1981, Mesa had grown into one of the largest independent oil companies in the world and Pickens would use its Mesa Partners investment group as the vehicle in his shareholder raids.
Michael Arndt, “Raiders Leave Mark on Phillips` Town,” Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1987.
And in August (1989), Fish Engineering sub-contractors opened some piping to a tank without isolating the line, resulting in a venting of flammable solvents and gas into an adjoining work area where it ignited, burning four workers and killing two others.
Some workers on mandatory overtime, for example, were doing five-day, 12-hour-per-day shifts in 1989.
Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union, Video and Script #9 (May 1990), Out of Control: The Story of Corporate Recklessness in the Petrochemical Industry, Produced by the Organizing Media Project, Washington, D.C., 1990.
Jack Doyle, Crude Awakening: The Oil Mess in America, Friends of the Earth (Washington, DC.) October 1993.
A third incident occurred in August 1999, when there was an explosion in the polypropylene section of the plant.
“Phillips Plant Explodes; Search for Two Workers Continues After Chemical Fire; at Least 52 Injured,” CNN Money, March 27, 2000.
Robert Frank and Alexei Barrionuevo, “Phillips Petroleum, Conoco to Merge In Stock Deal Valued at $15.17 Billion,” Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2001.
“ConocoPhillips Crude Unit Out,” The Oil Daily, July 23, 2003.
A seconf gas well fire at another ConocoPhillips location near Chetwynd,m B.C. occured in November 2008.
United Steelworkers, “Refinery Events, January 4, 2010 – January 7, 2010.”
Jeremy Fugleberg, “4 Burned in Lost Cabin Gas Plant Flash Fire,” Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, WY), August 22, 2012.
Ten years later, however, in 2012, the ConocoPhillips creation would reorganize and split into two separate companies.
A 2014 inspection reportedly revealed hydrocarbon emissions escaping from three vents and 17 roof seams at the refinery.
Pipeline Explosion & Fire February 9, 2017.
Carlie Kollath Wells, “Phillips 66 Pipeline Fire in Paradis Extinguished, Missing Worker Presumed Dead,” NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune, February 13, 2017.
Refinery Fires May 1, 2019.
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