[2] the refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began processing at the refinery on may 25, 1942 It was the night a deadly explosion rocked the exxon refinery, the nation’s second largest. The baton rouge refinery began operating in 1908, then as part of john d Rockefeller’s standard oil empire, a first among other oil and chemical plants that would soon crowd the lower mississippi creating a major petrochemical corridor At the time of the 1989 explosion, the exxon complex included an extensive tank farm, a web of pipelines, and a major chemical works John bel edwards announced potential investment by exxonmobil totaling more than $240 million at the company’s baton rouge refinery
The suite of projects would improve processing capability, increase flexibility for meeting market demand, advance overall site competitiveness, and install technology for a voluntarily 10 percent reduction of volatile organic. A person familiar with the situation said exxon stopped buying offshore crude from the mars pipeline system for its baton rouge facility because of zinc contamination. The single largest piece of infrastructure in town is the exxonmobil refinery, a huge industrial works of pipes and tanks and huge plumes of steam, occupying 2100 acres of land just north of downtown The plant was first established here on 225 acres of former cotton fields in 1909 by standard oil.
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