Mississippi Business Journal » crude http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Mon, 20 May 2013 18:59:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 River remains closed as oil spill cleanup continues http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/29/river-remains-closed-as-oil-spill-cleanup-continues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=river-remains-closed-as-oil-spill-cleanup-continues http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/29/river-remains-closed-as-oil-spill-cleanup-continues/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:43:58 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=68792 VICKSBURG — Barges transporting commerce idled among the nearly four-dozen vessels stacked up today along a normally bustling stretch of the Mississippi River, denied transit as crews feverishly sought to clean up leaking oil spilled in a weekend barge accident. Workers have been skimming oily water around the clock near Vicksburg ever since a barge [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/29/river-remains-closed-as-oil-spill-cleanup-continues/feed/ 0 Towboat hits bridge, spills light crude in Mississippi http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/28/towboat-hits-bridge-spills-light-crude-in-mississippi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=towboat-hits-bridge-spills-light-crude-in-mississippi http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/28/towboat-hits-bridge-spills-light-crude-in-mississippi/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:30:17 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=68758 VICKSBURG — A barge laden with 80,000 gallons of oil struck a railroad bridge in Vicksburg over the weekend, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and closing the waterway for miles each way, the Coast Guard said. A second barge was damaged. Although an oily sheen was reported up to three miles downriver from [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/28/towboat-hits-bridge-spills-light-crude-in-mississippi/feed/ 0 Officials approve fracking on town-owned property http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/04/officials-approve-fracking-on-town-ownned-property/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=officials-approve-fracking-on-town-ownned-property http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/04/officials-approve-fracking-on-town-ownned-property/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:14:52 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=67701 CALEDONIA — Caledonia officials will allow an oil company to a fracking process to drill on town-owned land. The Commercial Dispatch reports the town signed an agreement with Fletcher Petroleum Corp. of Fairhope, Ala. The town received $100 for a three-year lease on a three-quarter-acre parcel. Hydraulic fracturing involves drilling horizontally instead of straight down, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/04/officials-approve-fracking-on-town-ownned-property/feed/ 1 Site selected for oil seed-crushing/biodiesel plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/24/site-selected-for-oil-seed-crushingbiodiesel-plant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=site-selected-for-oil-seed-crushingbiodiesel-plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/24/site-selected-for-oil-seed-crushingbiodiesel-plant/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:23:53 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=64266 YAZOO COUNTY — Bio Energy, LLC has secured a site in Yazoo County to build an oil seed-crushing/biodiesel plant. The entity operating this facility will be known as Bio Energy Yazoo. The crushing plant will sell soy meal to the Mississippi and possibly Louisiana poultry industry, and soy oil will be used for the production [...]

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