In 2005 an explosion at its rundown Texas City refinery killed 15 workers.
In a neat piece of symbolism, the wedding party was at the South Shore Cultural Centre - a rundown, formerly all-white country club.
The party did best in the country's rundown, often jobless eastern regions, where it played on growing fears of crime, which it linked to the Roma (Gypsy) minority.
It was anchored by an old, once-stately mansion that was cut-up into cheap apartments, and was surrounded by a sad assembly of rundown trailers and a couple white-washed shack homes.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation forecast a record harvest in cereals this year, but said this might not be enough to replenish rundown inventories.
The rundown of Stripper bottom product is by level control acting on the Fractionator furnace pass control valves.