The last major accident to date at the Torrance oil refinery occurred a decade ago in 2015, when it was still being operated by ExxonMobil. Four workers were injured when a massive explosion ...

Twelve years after an infamous Chevron fire in Richmond, California, two key regulations are being challenged in court.

The ExxonMobil refinery explosion in Torrance, California, occurred on February 18, 2015. The explosion happened in the refinery’s electrostatic precipitator (ESP), a piece of equipment used to ...

Trading and marketing sources doing business with Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM ... turnaround at its 150,000-barrel-a-day Torrance, Calif., refinery beginning the first week of March and lasting ...

ExxonMobil Corp has been fined about $165,000 by ... $30 billion in asset sales to trim debt incurred from the transaction. An explosion and fire at an oil refinery in Torrance, California, on ...

On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 ...

An explosion and fire ripped through a gasoline processing unit at an Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance, California, near Los Angeles on Wednesday, slightly injuring three workers and shattering ...

ExxonMobil is back in court—and this time ... that the oil giant trespassed under California law by allowing toxic petroleum waste from its Torrance refinery to seep into the soil near nearby homes.

Exxon Mobil Corp. must face revived claims that it violated ... a lower court’s decision to toss out public nuisance claims by a Torrance, Calif., resident who alleged the refinery’s air pollution ...