Environmental Clean-up, Recycling and Restoration Programs

The oil and natural gas industry has been a leader in improving recycling and waste management practices that have reduced raw material usage and the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. API works with member companies on waste-related issues that address the classification of hazardous waste, recycling, and clean-up policies. Although refineries tend to produce similar types of wastes, sometimes there are different ways to manage these materials with the aim of recycling as much usable material as possible. The Farmland Fertilizer plant in Kansas will use ChevronTexaco proprietary technology to convert 1,300 tons per day of refinery petroleum coke into feedstock for fertilizer production. The API partners with the American Plastics Council in working with manufacturers, researchers and local communities to promote plastics recycling programs and to expand the variety of plastics recovered for use in making new, useful products. Since 1991, the API in collaboration with its members companies and their dealers have established used oil recycling programs throughout the U.S. to help consumers dispose of used motor oil. Each year, reprocessors treat about 1.1 billion gallons of used oil. ConocoPhillips initiated several partnerships with forest companies to replant trees on Canadian well sites identified for abandonment and reclamation with the aim of instituting a new process that provides forest companies with early notification of sites coming up for reclamation, thereby accelerating the recovery of forest ecosystems.

Recycling Greenhouse Gases to Fertilize Farms
The Farmland Fertilizer plant in Kansas will use ChevronTexaco proprietary technology to convert 1,300 tons per day of refinery petroleum coke into feedstock for fertilizer production.
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Accelerating Recovery of Well Sites to Forest Ecosystems
ConocoPhillips has initiated several partnerships with forest companies to replant trees on well sites identified for abandonment and reclamation. instituting a new process to provide forest companies with early notification of sites coming up for reclamation. such that recovery to forest ecosystems is accelerated thereby reducing the duration of our “footprint” on the environment and lowering costs for both ConocoPhillips and the forest companies.
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Safe Handling of Chemicals
ConocoPhillips is an active partner in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s high production volume chemical testing program. The purpose of the program is to provide information on potential health and environmental impacts of chemicals produced in large volumes in the United States.
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Protecting Forests in Venezuela
In 2002 ExxonMobil de Venezuela supported recovery of an emergency forest firebreak near Avila National Park in Caracas.
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Regulatory Innovations
ExxonMobil, through its role in the Fairmont project, is helping to pioneer Project XL, a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort designed to spur regulatory flexibility and faster cleanups.
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Minimizing Waste through Recycling and Refuse
Kerr-McGee strives to reduce or eliminate waste from its operations on land and offshore by recycling and reusing materials in an economic and environmentally responsible manner. Through recycling and reuse, Kerr-McGee limits waste, protects the environment, improves efficiency of natural resources and makes a positive contribution to the community.
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Recycling Used Motor Oil in Canada
Petro-Canada participates in the industry-sponsored effort to improve the collection and recycling of used motor oil from automobiles and commercial sources. All used motor oil that is changed at Petro-Canada facilities is recycled.
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Inglewood Wildlands
The Inglewood Wildlands was acquired by Petro-Canada in 1985. A former Gulf Oil refinery, the Wildlands began as an extensive environmental clean-up project in order to protect the Bow river and surrounding habitats and has since grown into a river valley mosaic of grasslands, shrubs, and riparian woods. 
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Avila Beach: A New Beginning
When Unocal hosted a community picnic in Avila Beach in September 2000, the event celebrated the end of a massive cleanup operation and the beginning of the new Avila Beach. Located on the central coast of California, Avila Beach had been home to a Unocal tank farm and oil transport operation from the early 1900s to the 1980s. A local resident doing some landscaping encountered contamination on his property in 1989, leading to the discovery that Unocal's underground pipes had been leaking petroleum products into the soil, undetected, for years.
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