Nowadays, they’d be out of luck, because the flame at the Pine Bend refinery is mostly dormant. The safety device, known as a flare, is used so infrequently that the refinery now warns neighbors ...

Oil refinery bosses are warning residents that flares are being used due to an ongoing issue. ExxonMobil, which runs the Fawley Refinery site in the New Forest, has confirmed it is using its flare ...

Suncor Energy is planning a two-year construction project at its Commerce City oil refinery to tear down a 75-year-old flare stack that often sends flames flickering from the top, and reconnect ...

Standard protocol requires the refinery to notify the Torrance Fire Department and officials also notified the South Coast Air Quality Management District. "Flares are an essential component of a ...