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Petrochemicals are derived from oil and gas production.

The company’s current global workforce is 70,000.

The cost of remediating the pollution probably will cost more than $1 million.

The Casper City Council will consider the matter at its work session at City Hall at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

On Sept. 12, the Wyoming Business Council's board of directors did not recommend the $500,000 grant request from the Casper City Council.

The news release did not say why the board of directors turned down the request.

The proposal would include a large field house on a 10-acre site on the former refinery property now known as the Platte River Commons.

The 30-inch-wide wall will extend from just below ground level to bedrock.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and a team of attorneys are urging a federal judge to give final approval to a proposed class-action settlement of economic damage claims after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing arguments Thursday from lawyers who negotiated the deal and attorneys who object to it ...

LONDON (AP) — British energy company BP says it is selling some of its operations in Wyoming to LINN Energy for $1 billion. BP PLC said Monday it is disposing of its interests in the Jonah and Pinedale upstream operations. The company's chief executive, Bob Dudley, said the proceeds would be invested in North American gas businesses and other opportunities...