Editing Amoco (section)

== Incidents ==
On August 27, 1955, the Whiting refinery suffered a devastating fire when a processing tower exploded. The fire lasted eight days, consumed 45 acres of storage tanks, and damaged nearby homes and businesses. In all, two people were killed, another 40 were injured 40, and 1,500 were evacuated. By the following year, the facility was repaired and the company had purchased much of the surrounding area in order to expand.<ref name=":52">{{Cite web |last=Doyle |first=Jack |date=August 21, 2015 |title="Inferno at Whiting" Standard Oil: 1955 {{!}} The Pop History Dig |url=https://pophistorydig.com/topics/whiting-refinery-fire-1955/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=pophistorydig.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=1955 Standard Oil refinery blast sounded like 'end of the world' |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-whiting-refinery-explosion-standard-oil-bp-gas-prices-flashback-0823-jm-20150821-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref> 

In November 1978 - abnormally high temperatures were detected in fuel tanks in the basement of an Amoco gas station in [[Centralia, Pennsylvania]], owned by then-mayor John Coddington. The source was determined to be the town's [[Centralia mine fire|ongoing mine fire]]. To prevent risk of the fuel igniting, the gasoline in the tanks was drained. The gas station was shuttered in December 1979, and demolished on November 9, 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |last=PA |first=Centralia |date=2014-11-01 |title=Coddington's Gas Station and the Centralia Mine Fire |url=https://www.centraliapa.org/john-coddingtons-gas-station-centralia-mine-fire/ |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=Centralia PA |language=en-US}}</ref>

On March 16, 1978, the [[supertanker|very large crude carrier]] ''[[Amoco Cadiz]]'' ran ashore just north of [[Landunvez]], [[Finistère]], [[Brittany]], [[France]], causing one of the largest [[oil spill]]s in history. Amoco was ordered by a federal judge [[Charles Ronald Norgle Sr.|Charles Norgle]] in a 1990 ruling to pay $120 million in damages and restitution to France.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/25/business/amoco-cadiz-damages-set.html|title=Amoco Cadiz Damages Set|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 25, 1990|access-date=September 4, 2020|page=D4}}</ref>

On October 21, 1980, an explosion at an Amoco plant in [[New Castle, Delaware]], killed six people, caused $46 million in property damage, and eventually led to the loss of 300 jobs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/air/aqm_page/brabson.htm |title=Taking the Hazard Out of Hazardous Chemicals |first=Robert A. |last=Barrish |publisher=Division of Air and Waste Management - Air Quality Management |date=2001-07-23 |access-date=2010-06-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050907185634/http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/air/aqm_page/brabson.htm |archive-date = 2005-09-07}}</ref>

In the 1980s and 1990s, six former Amoco chemical engineers at the firm's [[Naperville, Illinois]], research campus developed a deadly form of brain cancer. Researchers who conducted a three-year study of the [[cancer cluster]] determined that the cancer cases were workplace-related, but they could not identify the source of the workers' ailments. In June 2010, BP demolished Building 503, where the employees had worked. According to a company spokesperson, the building was "underused", and "required upgrades the company deemed too expensive." Heirs of one of the cancer-stricken workers won a $2.75 million suit against BP Amoco in 2000.<ref>Smith, G. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/06/02/bp-building-gone-but-its-medical-mystery-remains-2/ BP building gone, but its medical mystery remains.] ''Chicago Tribune'', June 2, 2010.</ref>