Boston-based private equity firm ArcLight Capital, together with commodities trader Freepoint, unveiled plans on Tuesday to buy the Hovensa refinery complex in St. Croix in the Caribbean and turn it ...

HOUSTON, May 17-- A Tuesday fire at Hovensa LLC in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, has reduced gasoline production by 30,000 b/d, but it has not affected oil processing, an Amerada Hess Corp. spokesman ...

NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Hovensa LLC said on Wednesday it plans to mothball 150,000 barrels per day of capacity at its 45-year old St. Croix refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands as it closes older, ...

NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Hovensa said Monday unplanned work on a 150,000 barrel-per-day gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracker at its 500,000-bpd St. Croix refinery in the Caribbean may end near ...

A refinery on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands has shut down temporarily after oil rained down on surrounding residents’ homes and cisterns used to collect drinking water.

ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands— Community and conservation groups filed a motion to intervene yesterday in a case concerning Environmental Protection Agency air permits for a shuttered oil refinery.

Crude oil for March delivery reversed course Wednesday, gaining more than $1.00 on actions by a major refiner and the Federal Reserve. Oil settled at $87.33 a barrel, a $1.14 improvement from Tuesday, ...

(AP) The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands says the owners of the former Hovensa oil refinery will continue to sell fuel under an interim agreement that has been extended. Gov. John de Jongh said ...

WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2011 (ENS) – HOVENSA LLC, owner of the second largest petroleum refinery in the United States, has agreed to pay a $5.375 million civil penalty and spend more than $700 ...

asis Hovensa said Tuesday that scheduled fourth-quarter maintenance and upgrade projects have been completed at its oil refinery in St. Croix, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. A capital project to ...