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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Oil Refineries Ltd

Smoke billows from the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, northern Israel, after an Iranian missile hit early on June 16, 2025. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
July 1, 2025, 8:47 pm
Refinery hit by Iran missiles emitting ‘100 times higher than usual’ levels of benzene
Carcinogenic emissions seen at monitoring stations on compound fence, at a high school. Bazan company says its own monitors show routine emissions that meet government standards
By Sue Surkes
Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel. Energean's floating rig arrived at the Karish field in June 2022. (Energean / Suez Canal Authority / AFP)
June 18, 2025, 5:02 pm
Israel will resume natural gas exports once it is deemed safe, says minister
Leviathan, Karish gas fields have been shut since start of Iran conflict, while Tamar remains operational; energy minister says he told Egypt and Jordan that supplies had to be cut
By Steven Scheer
Damage at the Bazan Group's oil refinery in Haifa Bay, northern Israel, after it was hit by an Iranian missile between June 15-16, 2025. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 17, 2025, 5:25 pm
Missile that hit Haifa oil refinery brings renewed urgency to plant’s closure plan
Environmental activists, who support long-term government plan to close Bazan plant for good and import and store products, warn writing is on the wall
By Sue Surkes
Ballistic missile damage seen in Rehovot, on June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 15, 2025, 5:30 pm
Iranian missile attacks damage Haifa oil refinery and Rehovot university buildings
Bazan says pipelines and transmission lines at sensitive industrial site struck, but work continuing; no injuries reported as Weizmann Institute hit, causing fire
By ToI Staff
Architect's impression of a park being created in a huge rehabilitated salt marsh where the Kishon River meets the sea, part of plans to overhaul the Haifa Bay in northern Israel. (Kishon River Authority)
March 25, 2025, 8:07 am
As Haifa goes green, oil refinery closure delayed but crude oil tanks set for removal
Plan for the bay’s polluting heavy industry to be replaced with green spaces, housing and commercial areas are behind schedule, but project heads say it will be completed on time
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries and the industrial area of Haifa Bay, October 28, 2008. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
September 29, 2022, 1:06 pm
Bazan Group indicted for pollution for 5th time in seven years
Israel’s biggest oil refinery and subsidiaries, fined nearly NIS 7.3 million for offenses over last 5 years, is now accused of 15 air pollution events at 10 facilities in 2017
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries and the industrial area of Haifa Bay, October 28, 2008. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
September 6, 2022, 6:10 pm
PM greenlights petrochemical company’s takeover of Israel’s biggest oil refinery
Although Lapid does not specify conditions, new owners tell Tel Aviv Stock Exchange they will cooperate fully on government plan to shut Haifa Bay facility in a decade
By Sue Surkes
Haifa Bay's industrial area, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
March 6, 2022, 5:37 pm
Cabinet unanimously votes to shut down Haifa Bay’s oil refineries
Ministers decide to end petrochemical activities within decade, promote national projects area; environmental groups slam government for lack of timetable and budget
By ToI Staff
View of chimneys from a refinery in Haifa Bay. (Shay Levy/Flash90)
October 10, 2021, 4:55 pm
Bazan Group again fined for violating pollution permit in Haifa
Environmental Protection Ministry slaps NIS 895,000 fine on conglomerate, says Carmel Olefins factory didn’t heed rules on dealing with highly toxic naphtha leak that caused a fire
By Sue Surkes
Activists take part at a protest calling for the closure the oil refineries in the Haifa Bay in northern Israel, June 24, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
June 8, 2021, 10:22 pm
Panel reaffirms call to shut down Haifa Bay’s oil refineries within a decade
But in a sign of possible hurdles ahead, finance and energy ministries express reservations about the committee’s recommendations
By Sue Surkes
File: View of Haifa's oil refineries and other industrial areas, on May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
April 26, 2021, 10:24 pm
Panel recommends closure of Haifa’s Bay’s oil refineries within a decade
Committee under national economic adviser Avi Simhon wants shuttering of Bazan, Kiryat Haim oil storage facility and transfer of Haifa Chemicals to Negev
By Sue Surkes
Moshe Kaplinsky, CEO of Oil Refineries, right to left, Abdullah Mazrui, Chairman of Mazrui International, Mark Hana, Oil Refineries VP for Sales, Marketing, Purchasing & Contracts and CEO of the Mazrui Group, Charbel Khoury (Courtesy)
November 16, 2020, 5:18 pm
Israel’s Oil Refineries, UAE’s Mazrui set up joint venture for polymer imports
Accord signed last week in Abu Dhabi; the polymers, for local use and for exports to Europe and the US, will complement those developed by the Israeli firm
By Shoshanna Solomon
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
October 26, 2020, 12:39 am
Cabinet appoints high-level committee to rule on future of Haifa Bay area
Panel has three months to publish findings that will focus on future of petrochemical and heavy industries that pollute but also create jobs
By Sue Surkes
View of a fire that broke out at an oil refinery complex in Haifa, northern Israel, December 25, 2016. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)
August 5, 2020, 4:58 pm
Mayor of Haifa, home to oil, chemical facilities, warns of Beirut-style disaster
Officials in northern port city see blasts in Lebanese capital as ‘wake-up call,’ urge government to speed up efforts to move dangerous oil, petrochemical industries away from bay
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
June 29, 2020, 7:08 pm
Polluting Haifa oil refineries must close by 2025, PM’s economic adviser demands
In landmark move, National Economic Council and Environmental Protection Ministry recommend shutdown of Bazan facilities, to be replaced with green residential and commercial hub
By Sue Surkes
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