The annual award honors customers who implement release prevention protocols and corrective action plans and have zero non-accident releases of regulated hazardous materials shipments, according to the Class I railroad. (See the 2024 list of recipients below.)
“At Union Pacific, safety is at the core of everything we do, and we are proud to partner with customers who prioritize the safe transportation of chemicals to protect the environment and the communities we serve,” said Kenny Rocker, Executive Vice President-Marketing and Sales of UP, whose Hazardous Materials Safety team supports shippers with joint rail safety training programs and railcar inspections across the Class I’s 23-state network with a four-prong mission: “Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery.”
And the honorees are:
| Aeropres Corporation Afton Chemical ALTIVIA Petrochemicals, LLC Americas Styrenics LLC AmeriGas Propane LP Arcanum Infrastructure, LLC Archer Daniels Midland Co. Arclin Arkalon Ethanol Arkema Inc. Ascend Performance Materials Aux Sable Liquid Products Badger State Ethanol, LLC Bayer CropScience Berryman Chemical Inc. Bluewing Midstream, LLC BP Buckeye Pipeline Company Cardinal Colwich Cargill Inc Celanese International Corp Cenovus Energy Centennial Energy LLC Foremark Performance Chemicals Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Gantrade Corporation Genesis Alkali Glacial Lakes Energy LLC Golden Triangle Energy LLC Grain Processing Corporation HELM U.S. Corporation Heron Lake BioEnergy Hexion Inc HF Sinclair Corporation Huntsman International LLC Indorama Ventures Ineos KOH INEOS Oligomers USA LLC INEOS Phenol INEOS US Chemicals Co Inter Pipeline US Marketing LTD INVISTA Nylon Chemicals Americas LLC Irving Oil Ltd Itafos Conda LLC JR Simplot Co Kemira Water Solutions, Inc. Kern Oil & Refining Co (dba Kern Energy) Keyera Kiros Energy Marketing ULC Koch Fertilizer LLC Koch Methanol LLC Koppers Inc. LACC, LLC LBC Houston LP Lotte Chemical Louisiana LLC Louis Dreyfus Company Luxemborg Trading LLC Manly Terminal LLC MEGlobal Americas Inc Messer LLC Methanex Methanol Company, LLC Mexichem Fluor SA de CV Midstream Energy Partners Midwest Renewable Energy Midwest Terminals MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL AMERICA HEADQUARTERS MMTX, INC Monument Chemical Houston LLC Nan Ya Plastics Corporation America Viridis Chemical Company Wanhua Chemical (America) Co., Ltd. Watco Companies LLC Western Plains Energy, LLC | CF Industries ChampionX LLC Chevron Phillips Chemical Company CHS INC CIE Norfolk GNS, LLC Citgo Petroleum Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers LLC Concord Energy LLC Corteva Agriscience Covestro LLC Crystal Clean, LLC Cyanco Company LLC Deer Park Refining LP/Pemex Dover Chemical DuPont Dyno Nobel Eastman Chemical Company Elite Octane LLC EnLink Midstream Enterprise Products Operating LLC ERCO Worldwide (USA) Inc Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions Evonik Corp Nexpera LLC NGL Supply Co Ltd Nouryon Chemicals LLC NOVA Chemicals Corporation NOVUS International Inc Nutrien Olin Corporation OQ Chemicals Corp OxyChem Parkland Corporation PCI Nitrogen LLC Pembina Pipeline Corp Phillips 66 CO Phoenix Park Energy Marketing LLC Pilot Travel Centers LLC Plains Marketing, LP Port of Tucson Rail Logix Holdings, LLC Reagent Chemical Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper Roehm America LLC RPMG Inc Sabic Saconix Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC Savage Infrastructure Sawtooth Caverns SI Group SNF Holding Company Solvay Chemicals Inc. Southern Ionics Incorporated Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC Sterling Ethanol, LLC Sulphuric Acid Trading Company, Inc. Suncor Energy (USA) Inc Synthomer Adhesive Technologies Tauber Oil Company Tessenderlo Kerley Inc. The Andersons Inc The Chemours Company The Dow Chemical Company The Plaza Group TotalEnergies Petrochemicals and Refining Usa Inc Twin Eagle Terminals & Logistics, LLC. United Energy Trading LLC US Oil & Refining Co. Veolia North America Westlake Corporation Wildcat Midstream Limited Partnership Williams Companies Inc. |
2023 Pinnacle Awards went to 137 companies; 2022 awards to 95 companies; 2021 awards to 70 companies; and 2020 awards to 63 companies.
In a related development, CSX on April 14 announced 62 customers as winners of its 31st Annual Chemical Safety Excellence Award for their “dedication to safely transporting hazardous materials across the company’s rail network in 2024.”
