Blue Dolphin Energy Company

Blue Dolphin Energy Company

The Blue Dolphin Energy Company refinery and depot west of Nixon, Texas.
Company type	Public
Traded as	OTCQX:  BDCO
Headquarters	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Key people	Jonathan P. Carroll (CEO) [1] Jonathan P. Carroll (president)
Website	Official website

Blue Dolphin Energy Company is a publicly traded Delaware corporation, headquartered in Houston, primarily engaged in the refining and marketing of petroleum products to be used as jet fuel, or as "a light sweet crude." ^[2]

The company also provides tolling and storage terminaling services with 60 acres of assets located west of Nixon, Texas in eastern Wilson County, Texas. This includes a 15,000 bbl/d (2,400 m³/d) ^[3] crude distillation tower and more than 1.0 million barrels of petroleum storage tanks (collectively the “Nixon Facility”). Pipeline transportation and oil and gas operations are no longer active. ^{[4] [5]}

Since 2006 through 2014, according to the chief executive regarding this facility, in-kind with his other similar facility at the time, “...there were some issues with the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) that we were not made aware of, and those issues have yet to be resolved.” ^[6]

As of 2014, 45 workers were employed at this facility. ^[7]

References

1. "Company Officers and Contacts". OTC Markets. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
2. "Blue Dolphin Energy Company Announces Contract Awarded to Operator, Pivot to Exploring Renewable Energy Opportunities". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
3. Vaughan, Vicki (January 24, 2013). "Nixon refinery benefits from Eagle Ford crude" . Retrieved September 22, 2019.
4. "Blue Dolphin Energy Company". Reuters. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
5. "Blue Dolphin Energy Company Profile (BDCO OTC)". OTC Markets. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
6. Vaughan, Vicki. "Refinery owners battle in court". San Antonio Express News. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
7. "Lazarus Energy, a subsidiary of Lazarus Energy Holdings and Blue Dolphin, is headquartered in Houston and employs about 60 workers, including 45 in Nixon". OSHA. United States Department of Labor. Retrieved 29 June 2020.