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	Ashland, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashland is a city located in Boyd County, Kentucky, nestled along the banks of the Ohio River.
		Ashland's recorded history begins with the migration of the Scotch-Irish Poage family from the Shenandoah Valley via the famed Cumberland Gap.
		Also located in Ashland is The Jesse Stuart Foundation, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the literary legacy of Jesse Stuart and other Appalacian writers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashland,_Kentucky (1079 words)

	Ashland Oil Spill, Oil Program, US EPA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Within minutes the oil slick moved miles down river, washing over two dam locks and dispersing throughout the width and depth of the river.
		The oil was carried by the Monongahela River into the Ohio River, temporarily contaminating drinking water sources for an estimated one million people in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, contaminating river ecosystems, killing wildlife, damaging private property, and adversely affecting businesses in the area.
		In September 1988, Ashland Oil Company was indicted by a federal grand jury for negligently discharging oil into the Monongahela River in violation of section 311(b)(3) of the Clean Water Act.
	www.epa.gov /oilspill/ashland.htm (523 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ashland appeals and the victory is later overturned by the WV Supreme Court.
		An Ashland Oil chemical engineer is told to keep a KY inspector away from an illegal operation in the plant during an inspection.
		Ashland's unionized workers go out on strike rather than sign a contract which would allow the company to force workers to perform jobs for which they may not be adequately trained.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~bady/envi/ashland.txt (3162 words)

	Marathon Petroleum Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The subsidiary was formed on September 1, 2005 from the former Marathon Ashland Petroleum, LLC, and is based in Findlay, Ohio.
		Marathon Ashland Petroleum, LLC was a US based petroleum corporation, formed in 1998 from a merger of the downstream operations of Ashland, Inc. and Marathon Oil.
		Following Ashland shareholder and debt-holder approval, the company became fully owned by Marathon Oil on June 30, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marathon_Ashland_Petroleum (174 words)

	Ashland Oil Tank Rupture 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In response to the unparalleled dimensions of the disaster as well as immediate public reports of deviations by Ashland from the accepted standard of care in the recent construction of the tank which collapsed, the Honorable Robert P Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania, determined that a comprehensive fact-finding investigation of the incident was required.
		The management and employees of Ashland Oil, Inc., and the management and employees of the Skinner Tank Company, which erected the tank in Pennsylvania, provided documents upon request and willingly agreed to be interviewed, in some in-stances more than once.
		The failure by Ashland to find the flaw and establish relevant material properties are the two most serious excursions from sound practice and code compliance by the company, but they are by no means the only ones.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/pa_env-her/ashland.htm (2068 words)

	North American road maps – A
		The Ashland Oil Co. is based in Ashland, Kentucky in the "chemical coast" along the Ohio River.
		Ashland has acquired a number of other regional marketers to expand its operations in recent years and in 1998 announced a merger with Marathon.
		Missouri is some distance from Ashland's principal marketing region and evidently the Missouri issue was not in sufficient demand to justify Ashland issuing a regular map of that state.
	zippy.cso.uiuc.edu /~roma/roadmaps/naoilA.html (737 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Nigeria boots U.S. oil firm Ashland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An Oil Ministry statement in the capital Abuja said the move was ordered by Oil Minister Dan Etete.
		It signed its first oil licence in the country in 1973 and the last in 1991 but its operations are relatively small compared with Shell and the other U.S. majors Chevron, Mobil and Texaco.
		The Abuja statement said Ashland sold its interests in the Nigerian oil contracts to Perenco Investments S.A., adding: "This transaction is not only against the law of the land, it is against our national interest." It said despite Etete's intervention emphasising the need for official consent, Ashland went ahead with the transactions.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cna72905.htm (251 words)

	The Kentucky Post
		Most of Ashland's oil refining and gasoline retailing business, including its Speedway gasoline stations, were contained in the joint venture with Marathon.
		Ashland officials said they would use most of the transaction proceeds to retire all or most of the company's outstanding debt.
		As a result, the final amount received by Ashland would be increased by an amount equal to 38 percent of the cash accumulated from operations during the period prior to closing.
	www.kypost.com /2004/03/19/ashland031904.html (462 words)

	The Cincinnati Post
		Ashland's oil refining and gasoline retailing business, including its Speedway gasoline stations, were contained in the joint venture with Marathon.
		As a result, the final amount received by Ashland would be increased by an amount equal to 38 percent of the cash accumulated from operations during the period before closing.
		Ashland officials said there is "meaningful risk'' that the transaction will not receive the favorable ruling from the IRS, in which case the agreement would not go forward.
	www.cincypost.com /2004/03/19/ashfinal031904.html (502 words)

	Business - The Enquirer - February 8, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ashland reported net income of $52 million, or 69 cents a share, compared with $36 million, or 48 cents a share, a year earlier.
		Ashland will account for its 38 percent stake of the new Marathon Ashland joint venture on an equity basis starting with the March quarter.
		Ashland has said creation of the joint venture will mean the elimination of up to 200 jobs from the roughly 3,000 it has employed in and around the Ashland, Ky., area.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/02/08/bus_ashland08.html (1447 words)

	ash071898
		If speculation proves correct and Ashland Inc. moves its headquarters to Covington's riverfront, Northern Kentucky will become home to a company that is not only one of the state's largest and most recognizable employers but also one of its most enduring and reliable corporate citizens.
		Ashland's influence has been felt in homes and schools across the state through the millions of dollars the company pours into education, the arts and community projects.
		Ashland Inc. has long been an advocate of education in Kentucky, and since 1983 it has been responsible for an advertising campaign devoted to increasing public awareness about the state's schools.
	www.kypost.com /news/1998/ash071898.html (1136 words)

	Ashland leaving oil business
		Ashland, which had earnings of $75 million on revenues of $2.7 billion last year, also owns automotive products, highway construction and specialty chemical businesses.
		While Ashland cautioned that failure to get IRS approval would cancel the deal, executives for Marathon and Ashland said they thought that the transaction would pass muster.
		While Ashland's stake in MAP generated $285 million in earnings last year, O'Brien said oil refining is a cyclical business that requires heavy capital investment.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/03/20/biz_ashland20.html (775 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ashland Oil and the State of KY sign an "agreed court order" to settle environmental violations involving excess SO2 emissions and the violation of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
		Ashland and KY sign another "agreed court order" to settle violations involving failure to construct the RCC unit as specified in the construction permit, resulting in excess air pollution.
		Ashland and KY sign two more "agreed court orders" to settle environmental violations involving hazardous waste problems at the company landfill, excess emissions from inadequate equipment and failure to notify KYpersonnel of excess emissions episodes.
	members.aol.com /socejp/downwind2.html (3396 words)

	Brett Waggoner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ashland Oil started in Ashland in 1924, and had developed deep roots in the tri-state.
		Ashland Oil was not mentioned in the media for the amount of damage they had done, but for the quick action that was taken to clean-up their mess (Chief Executive).
		Ashland Oil already owns the land where the Ethanol Plant is located.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~waggone6/article3.html (2008 words)

	Company News On Call
		Marathon has a 62 percent interest and Ashland a 38 percent interest in the new company which is expected to commence operations January 1, 1998.
		Marathon Oil Company is a part of the USX-Marathon Group (NYSE: MRO), a unit of USX Corporation.
		Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) is a large energy and chemical company engaged in petroleum refining and marketing; coal and highway construction.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/12-12-97/377480 (1030 words)

	Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
		OVEC educated members and citizens with regard to specific permit applications made by Ashland Oil and organized opposition to applications for increased discharges of pollutants, which would have kept an apparently leaking hazardous waste landfill open.
		Ashland was forced to install video cameras linked to regulators' offices for pollution monitoring-the first such action taken in the United States.
		The in depth research documented Ashland as being one of the heaviest polluting refineries in the country.
	www.ohvec.org /about_ovec/history.html (1990 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ashland Oil
		Nodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Latin petrus – rock and oleum – oil), mineral oil, or crude oil, sometimes colloquially called fl gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish flammable liquid, which exists in the upper strata of some areas of the Earths...
		A corporation (usually known in the United Kingdom and Ireland as a company) is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name...
		Marathon Oil Company owns 68% percent, while Ashland, Inc. owns 38% of this venture Ashland, Inc is a transportation construction, chemical, and petroleum company providing innovative products, services and solutions.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ashland-Oil (330 words)

	Our Milestones
		Ashland and Marathon Oil Corporation signed an agreement to transfer its 38-percent interest in Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC (MAP) to Marathon for approximately $3.0 billion.
		Ashland Chairman and CEO Paul Chellgren retired as CEO on Oct. 1, 2002 and as Chairman on Nov. 15, 2002.
		Ashland nearly tripled its domestic crude oil gathering capacity through the acquisition of The Permian Corporation and its merger with Scurlock Oil Company.
	www.ashland.com /ashland/our_milestones.asp?selid=2 (1223 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Ashland Chemical forms Ashland (Nanjing) Chemical Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ashland Chemical's Composite Polymers Division is opening an office in the Nanjing Jiangning Economic and Technical Development Zone, which is the same location where the company has an interest in building a manufacturing plant in the future, to produce and market the company's unsaturated polyester resin products and other chemicals in China.
		Ashland Chemical Company will use the Nanjing office to generate sales of its unsaturated polyester resin products in regions where it currently has no local distributors.
		Ashland Chemical is committed to being a major supplier of unsaturated polyester resin in China," said Mike Swartzlander, international business manager for the Composite Polymers Division.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cns75077.htm (196 words)

	Oil
		The Seneca Oil Spring is located near the spillway end of Cuba Lake on the Oil Spring Indian Reservation.
		Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico.
		Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum.
	www.kipnotes.com /Oil.htm (4704 words)

	The Lane Report -- Fast Lane April 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ashland Inc. has announced that it will sell its 38 percent interest in Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC (MAP) to joint venture partner Marathon Oil Co. The deal, valued at $3 billion, represents Ashland’s departure from the core business on which it was founded 80 years ago.
		Ashland plans to use a substantial portion of the transaction proceeds to retire all or most of the company’s outstanding debt and other financial obligations.
		Ashland Inc. came in as Kentucky’s third-largest company, with 2003 revenues of $8.08 billion and an overall ranking of No. 252, down from No. 239 in 2002.
	www.kybiz.com /lanereport/departments/fast_lane/fastlane404.html (6172 words)

	ash012400
		When Covington-based Ashland holds its annual meeting Thursday, shareholders will find a company that has transformed itself from a regional oil producer to a diverse mix of businesses that offer everything from asphalt to washer fluid to adhesives.
		In the year since Ashland moved its corporate headquarters from Ashland, Ky., to the RiverCenter office towers in Covington, Chairman and CEO Paul W. Chellgren has led the charge to rid the company of its volatile crude oil business and low-performing interests.
		Ashland's wholly owned subsidiaries - APAC, Ashland Distribution, Ashland Specialty Chemical and Valvoline - prospered in fiscal year 1999, raking in $347 million in operating income, a 21 percent rise compared to 1998.
	www.cincypost.com /news/2000/ash012400.html (686 words)

	Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
		OVEC has educated members and citizens with regard to specific permit applications made by Ashland Oil and has organized opposition to applications for increased discharges of pollutants and for keeping an apparently leaking hazardous waste landfill open.
		OVEC is currently organizing citizens to put pressure on Kentucky's environmental agency to require the phase out of hydrofluoric acid (HF) at Ashland Oil, and to implement strong interim safety standards for HF, similar to those adopted in California.
		The overall goals regarding Ashland Oil are to develop more widespread citizen efforts to demand improvements at the refinery which will bring it up to national refinery standards on emissions and pollution control / prevention technology, and increase regulatory agencies' accountability to citizen concerns.
	www.ohvec.org /old_site/ovec02.htm (2002 words)

	The Oilspot: Senate Scrutinizes Gasoline Prices
		Internal documents from several oil companies reviewed by panel staff show “the oil companies view it to be in their economic interest to keep gas inventories low and the supply and demand balance tight,” said Subcommittee chair Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.).
		The subcommittee’s Democratic staff found that the oil industry mergers of the last few years and the closing of many refineries over the last 20 years reduced the number of gasoline suppliers, which has led to higher fuel prices.
		Because crude oil is the largest non-tax cost component of a gallon of gasoline, the price of gasoline is determined largely by the demand and supply of crude oil worldwide,” API said.
	www.imakenews.com /dhaugh/e_article000068893.cfm (1096 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The EPA Region 4 released Friday a three-year study of air pollution in Ashland and neighboring West Virginia.
		Understanding would come a little quicker for Ashland Oil if it would accept the most dramatic findings in the EPA report.
		In a survey of hospital records and residents near the Ashland Oil plant, a University of Pittsburgh team found "striking" evidence of the health effects of the region's bad air.
	members.aol.com /socejp/lexart.html (711 words)

	History - Barnes Oil Company Ashland Nebraska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ASHLAND - In December, Ashland made another mark in the history books when the old Barnes Oil Company building was officially entered on the National Register of Historical Places.
		The Barnes families were prominent business owners in Ashland during the period the station was built, owning and operating a hotel and restaurant, billiards hall and four filling stations in town during this period.
		Wagner explained that when her father first came to Ashland in 1930 he ran a hamburger shop in a small building at what is now 1433 Silver Street (Jim Sanders owns it now).
	www.visitsaunderscounty.org /history/ashlandbarnesoilcompany.htm (808 words)

	Ashland brief
		Ashland Chemical, Inc., 126 F.3d at 682, 688), such as astronomy, physics and chemistry.
		Moore suffers from reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, resulting from inhalation of chemicals he was delivering for his employer, Ashland Chemical, Inc. To establish a causal link between the diagnosis and the exposure to Ashland’s chemicals, plaintiffs proffered the testimony of two clinical doctors, Dr. Antonio Alvarez and Dr. Daniel Jenkins.
		Ashland Chemical, Inc., 1997 WL 644054 at 10-11 (5th Cir., Oct. 20, 1997).
	www.atlanticlegal.org /ashland.html (3562 words)

	City Pages - Going After Ashland Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1995, Ashland announced that it was rebuilding the loading area with state-of-the-art technology.
		Ashland and the agency are also working on a new air-emissions permit for the company, slated for public notice in March.
		In 1996, the department released a health assessment for the Ashland refinery, which concluded that people in the area were probably exposed to a variety of toxins through air, water, and soil.
	www.citypages.com /databank/18/848/article3303.asp (2067 words)

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