PORT ARTHUR, Texas — An explosion and large plume of smoke at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur prompted officials to order west-side residents to shelter in place Monday, but the major fire was out ...

BP, the British oil major, has locked out roughly 800 union workers at its Whiting, Indiana, refinery after contract talks with the United Steelworkers broke down. This is no local matter. Whiting is ...

An oil refinery fire near the Texas coast was put out Tuesday and a shelter-in-place order was lifted, hours after a large explosion at the complex shot plumes of smoke into the air, officials said.

A fire at Valero’s largest oil refinery in Texas was put out on Tuesday after an explosion prompted a shelter-in-place order for residents in the area. The explosion occurred at a refinery in Port ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large explosion at a Valero oil refinery in Port Arthur, near the Texas Gulf coast, shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced ...

A large explosion at an oil refinery near the Texas coast shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced nearby residents to shelter in place, officials said. No one was injured in Monday's explosion at ...

Crews have extinguished a fire at a Texas oil refinery after a large explosion sent plumes of smoke into the air and prompted a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, officials said Tuesday, ...

A massive explosion at a Texas crude oil refinery shot up towering plumes of dark smoke and physically shook locals’ homes before they were ordered to shelter in place Monday. A loud boom resounded ...

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — An explosion and large plume of smoke at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, prompted a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents Monday evening. 12News viewers called in ...