BNSF Honors 93 Shippers for Safe Transport of Hazardous Materials at 13th Annual Product Stewardship Awards Event
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 20, 2010—BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 93 shippers with BNSF’s Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2009.
These 93 award-winning companies have successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® initiative. Last year, BNSF presented 86 customers with its Stewardship Award.
“This is a record year for the number of customers who have received BNSF’s Stewardship Award. We are pleased that each year the number of customers receiving this award grows. It demonstrates our customers and the rail industry’s focus on the safe transportation of hazardous materials,” Katie Farmer, BNSF vice president, Industrial Products Sales, said at a special presentation at BNSF's corporate headquarters in Fort Worth. “The product stewardship of these 93 customers helps support the safety of our employees, the communities we serve and the environment.”
Implemented in 1997, BNSF's Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who transported a minimum of 500 loaded tank cars of hazardous materials during the previous year with zero non-accident releases (NARs) during the entire transportation cycle.
The honorees for 2009 performance are:
Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation
Aberdeen, Energy LLC
Agrium USA Inc.
ALON USA
Aux Sable Liquid Products
Basic Chemical Solutions, L.L.C.
Bayer Corporation
Big West Oil Company
Bonanza Bioenergy LLC
Bridgeport Ethanol LLC
C F Industries, Inc.
Canexus Chemicals
Centennial Energy LLC
Chemtrade Logistics Inc
Chevron Products Company
Citgo Petroleum Corporation
ConocoPhillips
Dakota Gasification Company
Denver Rock Island Railroad
E Energy Adams, LLC
Eastman Chemical Company
Elbow River Marketing LP
Evonik Cyro LLC
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Federated Co-Operatives Ltd
Frontier El Dorado Refining Co.
Gary-Williams Energy Corporation
Glacial Lakes Energy LLC
Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc.
Harmattan Gas Processing LLC
Heartland Grain Fuels LP
Holly Corporation
Huntsman Corporation
Husky Oil Ltd
Imperial Oil Limited
Ineos LLC
Inergy, L.P.
Irving Oil
J.R. Simplot Company
Kemira Water Solutions, Inc.
Keyera Energy LP
Kinetic Resources LPG
Linde North American LLC
Lodgepole Energy Marketing
Lubrizol Corporation
LyondellBasell Industries
Marathon Petroleum
Martin Product Sales LLC
Methanex
Mid America Agri Products
Montana Refining Company
Musket Corporation
Nebraska Energy LLC
Nedak Ethanol LLC
NGL Supply Co. Ltd.
Noranda, Inc.
NOVA Chemicals Corporation
Nustar Marketing LLC
Olin Corporation
Orica USA Inc.
Oxea Corporation
PCS Sales Inc
Petrogas Marketing Ltd.
Pioneer Oil, LLC
Plains LPG Services LP
Plainview Bioenergy LLC
The Plaza Group
Plymouth Energy LLC
PPG Industries
Reagent Chemical
Red Trail Energy, LLC.
Redfield Energy, LLC.
SemStream, L.P.
Shell Oil Products
Silver Eagle Refining
Simplot Grower Solutions
Siouxland Energy and Livestock
Cooperative
Solar Gas
Solvay Chemicals, Inc.
South Hampton Refining Co.
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC
Spectra Energy
Targa Resources, Inc
Teck Metals Ltd
Trenton Agri-Products LLC
Univar USA
U.S. Oil & Refining Co.
Valero Marketing and Supply
WE Hereford LLC
Western Gas Resources, Inc.
Western Refining
Williams Energy Services
WRB Refining, LLC.
About BNSF
BNSF Railway is one of North America’s leading freight transportation companies operating on 32,000 route miles of track in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is one of the top transporters of consumer goods, grain, industrial goods and low-sulfur coal that help feed, clothe, supply, and power American homes and businesses every day. BNSF and its employees have developed one of the most technologically advanced, and efficient railroads in the industry. And we are working continuously to improve the value of the safety, service, energy, and environmental benefits we provide to our customers and the communities we serve.