Air monitoring is underway as crews contain a fire at the Valero refinery in Benicia Monday morning that sent large plumes of ...

A fire that broke out at Valero's 145,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Benicia, California, has been extinguished, the company said on Monday.

A fire broke out Monday morning at the Valero refinery in Benicia. Photos from the scene showed black smoke billowing into the sky, though the color lightened as time went on. The city's fire ...

The company is shutting down its Benicia refinery, impacting the California market, yet maintains a strong balance sheet and continues to return capital to investors. Despite a tough Q1 ...

The Valero notice followed similar news at Phillips 66 in October, when that company said it would be ceasing operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery in the fourth quarter of 2025. Firms are ...

linked the shutdown of WRPC to critical faults in the refinery’s Crude Distillation Unit Main Heater. “The Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company was shut down on 25th Jan. 2025 due to ...

Valero Energy Corp. was the latest to make such an announcement, alerting the California Energy Commission (CEC) last month that it would “idle, restructure or cease refining operations” at its ...

Then, at the end of March, environmental groups flew over the facility and came back with aerial photos showing 35 ... to run from a South Memphis Valero refinery through and around neighborhoods ...