Phillips 66
With a long history of violating the Clean Air Act and recently acquiring DCP Midstream, another fossil gas producer with a history of environmental violations for $3.8 billion. Phillips 66 prides itself on being recognized as one of the main crude oil and refineries companies in both the US and Europe. It gathers, processes, transports, stores, and markets fossil gas liquids (NGLs). It also manufactures petrochemicals, and plastics and markets lubricants under the brands Phillips 66, Kendall, and Redline brands.
The company has a presence in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa and it is headquartered in the bayou city of Houston, Texas. The company currently operates 11 facilities in the US, making it "an essential" supplier of refined products with the capacity to refine 2.2 million barrels of oil per day in both the U.S. and Europe.
Curious fact
Even though Phillips 66 doesn't only do refining, the company categorizes itself as such since refining has been the company's biggest moneymaker. [1]
Background
The current version of Phillips 66 started in 2012 when oil giant ConocoPhillips spun it off. Its predecessor, though, dates back to 1875 when Isaav Blake started the Continental Oil and Transportation Co to sell kerosene in San Francisco, CA. Eventually, Conoco merged with Phillips in 2002. Phillips Petroleum Company got its start in 1917 in Oklahoma.
Inverstors and Partners
Warren Buffet, the chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway; was the company's biggest investor and top shareholder. Warren at one point owned more than 80 million shares that were valued at more than $6 billion, making it the seventh-largest stock holding.
Enviromental Litigations
Texas
With a record of air pollution just like its recent purchase of DCP Midstream; Phillips facilitates located at or near Cedar Bayou, Port Arthur, and Sweeny have violated multiple Clean Air Act and Texas state air pollution requirements while burning off their waste gases. The joint Chevron and Phillips facilities were asked to pay an estimated $118 million to reduce air pollution from flares at the plants, and a $3.4 million penalty to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. [2]