Jan 15 - Honeywell recently announced it has acquired rights to technology developed by Shell Global Solutions (Shell) for gathering field data and helping industrial plants to safely increase production while reducing maintenance and operating costs.

Jan 5 - Sunoco Refining and Marketing will pay $173,310 in civil penalties for air quality violations at its 178,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, that occurred in 2008, state authorities said on Tuesday.

Jan 4 - LONDON Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) and two of its contractors have been fined a total of GBP283,332 by the U.K. Health and Safety Executive over an accident at the Stanlow refinery in Cheshire in 2007 that left a ...

Dec 29 - SUGAR LAND, Texas—Imperial Sugar Co. says it has settled a property insurance claim in the February 2008 explosion at its Port Wentworth, Ga., refinery for a total of $345 million.

Dec 11 - London - On the fourth anniversary of the Buncefield explosion, the Process Safety Leadership Group (PSLG) has published its final report with recommendations specifying minimum safety and environmental protection standards for all sites storing large volumes of gasoline.

Dec 10 — Shortages of staff and money keep a federal group from investigating blasts like the one that shook the Seabrook area.

On Dec. 9, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) issued urgent safety recommendations calling on CITGO Petroleum Corp. to conduct third-party safety audits and improve its emergency water mitigation system in the event of another release of potentially deadly hydrogen fluoride (HF) vapor, as occurred last July at the company’s Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery.

Dec 3 The new control room management rule requires pipeline operators to establish human factors management plans and to account for National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system displays, alarm systems and controller training.

Nov 17 NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--U.S. workplace-safety regulators say they are turning up more violations than they expected in a sweeping, nationwide program of inspections of U.S. oil refineries.