MOSCOW (MRC) -- A contract worker died from injuries received while working at BP Plc’s 430,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana refinery, reported Reuters with reference to a company spokesman's statement.
"BP confirms that a contract worker was injured today at the Whiting refinery," said company spokesman Michael Abendhoff. "BP’s local medical staff provided immediate assistance, but sadly the worker was later pronounced dead."
BP is in the midst of overhauling a 65,000 bpd gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit at the refinery. Work on the unit in mid-September and was expected to take about a month to complete.
It was unclear if the person who was killed was working on that project.
"Our thoughts go out to his family and co-workers during this difficult time," Abendhoff said.
BP plans an internal investigation, he said. Workplace fatalities are also investigated by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
As MRC informed before, in September 2019, six world's major petrochemical companies in Flanders, Belgium, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the Netherlands (Trilateral Region) have announced the creation of a consortium to jointly investigate how naphtha or gas steam crackers could be operated using renewable electricity instead of fossil fuels. The Cracker of the Future consortium, which includes BASF, Borealis, BP, LyondellBasell, SABIC and Total, aims to produce base chemicals while also significantly reducing carbon emissions. The companies have agreed to invest in R&D and knowledge sharing as they assess the possibility of transitioning their base chemical production to renewable electricity.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polyprolypele (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,255,800 tonnes in the first seven months of 2019, up by 9% year on year. Shipments of all PE grades increased. At the same time, the estimated PP consumption in the Russian market was 796,120 tonnes in January-July 2019, up by 11% year on year. Shipments of PP block copolymer and homopolymer PP increased.
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