1. Ashland Oil Inc.: Trouble At Floreffe
Intro/Facts Ashland Oil, Inc. with revenues exceeding $7 Billion in 1987 was the sixtieth largest company in the country and the nation's largest independent oil refiner. ... Key oil supplies came from the Middle East and Nigeria, where Ashland Oil Inc. ... On January 2, 1988, a 4-million gallon oil storage tank owned by Ashland Oil Company, Inc., split apart and collapsed at an Ashland oil storage facility located in Floreffe, Pennsylvania, near the Monongahela River. ... Oil had been sprayed on the welds inside the tank and vacuum suction was applied from the outside to determine if ...
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