# AMOCO OIL COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Unknown
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28996`
- **Case Number:** 05-1994-0395
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unknown
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMOCO OIL COMPANY (complaint)
## Summary

THE AMOCO WHITING REFINERY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST         REFINERIES IN THENATION.  OPERATING 24 HOURS A DAY.          PROCESSING UP TO 405,000 BARRELS OFCRUDE OIL PERDAY INTO     VARIOUS PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.  APPROXIMATELY 1,400ACRES OF     LAND ON THE SOUTHERN SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN IN               NORTHWESTINDIANA.  THE WHITING REFINERY HAS BEEN OPERATING   SINCE 1890.                                                      AMOCO'S PROCESS EQUIPMENT INCLUDES DISTILLATION TOWERS.  FLUIDCATALYTIC CRACKERS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT USED TO PRODUCE  GASOLINE.  AHEAVY OILS PLANT.  A COKER, AN ASPHALT PLANT,    PRODUCT TREATING ANDBLENDING UNITS.  SULFUR RECOVERY UNITS.  AND VAPOR RECOVERY UNITS.NUMEROUS SOLID WASTES, AIR          EMISSIONS AND WASTEWATER STREAMS AREGENERATED DURING THE     PROCESSING OF CRUDE OIL.  FIVE EPA RCRAIDENTIFICATION        NUMBERS ARE PRESENTLY BEING USED TO IDENTIFY RCRAACTIVITIES.     A NUMBER OF STATE -ISSUED AIR PERMITS REGULATE THE       EMISSION OF ARANGE OF AIR POLLUTANTS FROM THE REFINERY OVER  80 SOURCES.  TWO HUNDREDSTORAGE TANKS AND APPROXIMATELY      47,500 EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS ARE ALSOMONITORED AND REGULATED.   THE WHITING REFINERY CONTAINS.  AMONG OTHERSOURCES,        EMISSION SOURCES WHICH ARE REGULATED BY INDIANA              STATEIMPLEMENTATION PLAN (INDIANA SIP). PURSUANT TO SECTION  110 OF THE CAA,AND THE NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS      (NSPS).  40 C.F.R. PART 60,PURSUANT TO SECTION III OF THE    CAA.  THE EMISSION SOURCES THAT ARE OFIN

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