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Magnaforming A catalytic reforming process developed by the Atlantic Richfield Corporation and Englehard Corporation. First announced in 1965, it was commercialized in 1967 and by 1988, 150 units were operating worldwide. Hydrocarbon Research has installed units in Argentina, Algeria, and the USSR. 

HDA [HydroDeAlkylation] A proprietary dealkylation process for making benzene from toluene, xylenes, pyrolysis naphtha, and other petroleum refinery intermediates. The catalyst, typically chromium oxide or molybdenum oxide, together with hydrogen gas, removes the methyl groups from the aromatic hydrocarbons, converting them to methane. The process also converts cresols to phenol. Developed by Hydrocarbon Research with Atlantic Richfield Corporation and widely licensed worldwide. 

Atlantic Richfield Corporation started an ad campaign for a form of less polluting gas... 

Seacoke A process for making tar and coke by carbonizing mixtures of coal and petroleum residuum. The tar would be used in an oil refinery and the coke would be used for generating electricity. The process was sponsored by the U.S. Office of Coal Research 1964-1969 the work was carried out by EMC Corporation, Atlantic Richfield Company, and Blaw-Knox Company. Results from the pilot plant were encouraging but the project was abandoned because the benefits were judged insufficient to justify the complexity. 

Although most facilities that refine crude petroleum in the United States produce a fuel oil. no. 1 fraction (HSDB 1991), only producers that market fuel oil no. 1 as an end product are listed as commercial manufacturers. These manufacturers include Claiborne Gasoline Company (Claiborne and Union Parish, Louisiana), Continental Oil Company (Acadia Parish, Louisiana), Sun Production Company (Starr County, Texas), Exxon Corporation (Pledger County, Texas), Atlantic Richfield Company (New York, New York), and Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) (HSDB 1991). Since fuel oils nos. 1, 1-D, 2, 2-D, and 4, and fuel oil UNSP are not required to be reported under SARA Section 313, there are no data for these fuel oils in the 1990 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI90 1992). 

This study was supported by research grants from Texas Energy Corporation, Amax Foundation, and Atlantic Richfield Foundation. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. The graduate students Theresa Chang, Rasik Patel and Edward Eke conducted the experimental work described in this paper. Their contributions are much appreciated. 

We are grateful to the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, and the Atlantic Richfield Foundation of the Research Corporation for supporting this work. We would like to thank Professor Peter G. Debrunner for supplying us with a copy of the Mossbauer data fitting program. We also would like to acknowledge Professor C. 0. Bennett and L. M. Tau as collaborators on the Fischer-Tropsch studies. 

We are grateful to the Atlantic Richfield Foundation of the Research Corporation and the University of Connecticut Research Foundation for supporting this work. 

Titan, 1994, Milltown reservoir sediments operable unit, working draft, final remedial investigation report Volume 1, Prepared for Atlantic Richfield Company, Prepared by Bozeman, Montana, Titan Environmental Corporation. 

Any complex code, such as YAQUI, must be calibrated and verified by comparing calculations with the results of realistic field experiments. A series of explosive field tests using ANFO in oil shale has been conducted in the Colony Mine near Rifle, Colorado. These experiments were performed under DOE auspices with the cooperation of Atlantic Richfield, TOSCO, and the Colony Development Corporation. They were conducted for comparison with code calculations and to obtain empirical information about blasting in oil shale. 

We can start one thread in 1955, when the Texas Butadiene and Chemical Corporation bought the LyondeU Country Club in Channelview, Texas, and built a plant on that site. Sinclair Petrochemicals then purchased the Channelview site in 1962. Atlantic Refining Company and Richfield Oil Corporation formed Atiantic Richfield (ARCO) in 1966, which merged in 1969 with Sinclair, so the Channelview... 

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