Amoco Corporation — Corporate Overview

Amoco Corporation traces to the American Oil Company and Standard Oil Company (Indiana), spun off from the original Standard Oil trust in 1911. The company was formally renamed Amoco Corporation in 1985 and merged with British Petroleum in 1998 to form BP Amoco, later shortened to BP. Amoco’s Chicago IL headquarters oversaw a national footprint of crude-oil refineries, petrochemical plants, marine terminals, pipelines, and branded service stations. Its refining and chemicals divisions operated some of the largest integrated petroleum complexes in the Midwest, Gulf Coast, and Mid-Atlantic.

Premises Description

Amoco has been named as a premises defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation for alleged asbestos exposure across its national refining and petrochemical network — including the Whiting IN refinery (one of the largest inland refineries in the U.S.), the Texas City TX refinery and chemicals complex, the Wood River IL refinery, the Yorktown VA refinery, the Sugar Creek MO refinery, the El Dorado AR refinery, and other Amoco / Standard Oil (Indiana) / American Oil facilities.

Amoco refineries and petrochemical plants were heavy industrial premises: crude and vacuum distillation units, fluid catalytic crackers (FCC), catalytic reformers, hydrotreaters, alkylation units, coker units, sulfur recovery plants, HDPE / LDPE polymer reactors, phenol and aromatics recovery units, and powerhouse steam plants. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1980 Amoco premises allegedly involved asbestos through:

  • Asbestos pipe covering on crude, vacuum, reformer, coker, and process piping
  • Asbestos-fabric expansion joints on FCC regenerator overheads and hot-flue-gas ducts
  • Asbestos-block hot-side lagging on crude vacuum towers, coker heaters, and reformer heaters
  • Asbestos-refractory converter linings in sulfuric-acid alkylation units
  • Asbestos-packed control-valve stems, pump shaft seals, and rotor seals on compressors
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets at process-piping flanges, exchangers, and vessels
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on refinery structural steel (pre-1973 EPA ban)
  • Asbestos-cement transite panels on cooling-tower cells and utility structures

Workers Exposed

Plaintiffs allegedly worked at Amoco Whiting IN, Texas City TX, Wood River IL, Yorktown VA, Sugar Creek MO, El Dorado AR, and other Amoco / American Oil facilities in trades including:

  • Insulators (HFIAW) applying and removing asbestos pipe covering and block on process piping and vessels
  • Pipefitters (UA) breaking asbestos-gasketed flanges on exchangers, columns, and reactor circuits
  • Boilermakers servicing asbestos-refractory-lined heaters, boilers, and alkylation converters
  • Millwrights rebuilding asbestos-packed refinery pumps, compressors, and turbines
  • Electricians (IBEW) on plant switchgear and motor-control centers
  • Refinery operators and maintenance mechanics around asbestos-fireproofed process units

If You Worked at Amoco

If you or a family member worked at an Amoco / Standard Oil (Indiana) / American Oil refinery or petrochemical plant — Whiting IN, Texas City TX, Wood River IL, Yorktown VA, Sugar Creek MO, or any other Amoco facility — before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956

Plants by State

Amoco / Standard Oil (Indiana) / American Oil operated refineries and petrochemical plants across multiple U.S. states. Detailed premises information is available on the following state jobsite pages: