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    The Kerr-McGee Corporation, founded in 1929, was an American energy company involved in oil exploration, production of crude oil, natural gas, perchlorate...
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    related to health and safety in a nuclear facility. She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Crescent, Oklahoma, making plutonium...
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  • site was operated by the Kerr-McGee Corporation (KMC) from 1965 to 1975. Some of the byproducts and waste from Kerr-McGee's uranium and thorium processing...
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  • Tronox (category Kerr-McGee)
    parent company Kerr-McGee's legacy of generations of environmental dumping of toxic waste across 22 states. According to one report, "Kerr-McGee, rather than...
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  • Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her inconclusive death in a car crash gave rise to a 1979 lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee,...
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    history - the 2014 settlement related to the former Tronox subsidiary of Kerr McGee, a company purchased by Anadarko in 2006. In addition to exploration and...
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  • November 2, 2012) was an American woman known for her involvement in the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant criminal case of the 1970s when she and her roommate Karen...
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    joined the firm, which changed its name in 1946 to Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Incorporated. Kerr-McGee diversified into global drilling for petroleum and...
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  • near Gore, Oklahoma. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Kerr-McGee. In 1988 it was sold to General Atomics. The plant is located near Gore...
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    water some 18 miles[vague] off Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. But it was Kerr-McGee Oil Industries (now part of Occidental Petroleum), as operator for partners...
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    adviser to David Howell at the Department of Energy. He left to work for Kerr-McGee Oil between 1981 and 1983. In the 1983 general election, he fought his...
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    was installed in September 1996 by Kerr McGee. The first, and thus far unique, cell-spar platform was Kerr-McGee's Red Hawk spar (7 ea. 8 m (26 ft) diameter...
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    issues. Until 2008, the building was known as the Kerr-McGee Tower. The former oil and gas company Kerr-McGee Corporation constructed the building in 1971...
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    exploration companies. US and French companies (notably TotalEnergies and Kerr-McGee) began prospecting on behalf of the Moroccan Office National de Recherches...
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    Karen Silkwood, in which her character was a lesbian who worked at the Kerr-McGee plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma. It was a commercial success and grossed $35...
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  • Kerr-McGee v. Navajo Tribe, 471 U.S. 195 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an Indian tribe is not required to...
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    mined for uranium starting in the 1950s. It is in an anticlinal dome. Kerr-McGee first learned about rich uranium deposits in the area in 1955. It ran...
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  • industry and the US military. It was bought by Kerr-McGee in 1967, which reformed it into the Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation (KMCC) around 1970. The company...
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  • 1908 – December 2, 1978) was an American lawyer and president of the Kerr-McGee oil company. Frank Criner Love, Jr. was born in Purcell, Oklahoma, the...
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    February 29, 1992. Vandewater, Bob (January 1, 1997). "Devon Obtains Kerr-McGee Oil, Gas Properties". The Oklahoman. "Devon Energy to acquire Canada's...
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  • brief time he knew her before her tragic death. She was a technician at a Kerr-McGee nuclear fuel milling, conversion, enrichment, and fuel rod fabrication...
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    by Kerr-McGee. However they didn’t want to own the company town and sold it. They cut production in half in 1982 and instituted massive layoffs. Kerr-McGee...
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    discuss evidence she had found of Kerr-McGee's actions at the time of her death, unverified assertions that Kerr-McGee or other associated parties may have...
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    (6.1 m) of water some 18 miles[vague] off Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, as operator for partners Phillips Petroleum (ConocoPhillips)...
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    1965 the Cimarron Processing Facility was opened by Kerr-McGee (owned through a subsidiary, Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp.) to convert powdered uranium hexafluoride...
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    Medical Research Foundation from 1964 to 1966, a research chemist at Kerr-McGee from 1966 to 1968, and a research associate at the Oklahoma Medical Research...
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  • uranium mining company owned by Kerr-McGee. It was established in 1983. In 1983 Quivira became operator of Kerr-McGee's old 1958 uranium mill at Ambrosia...
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    suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked SOS Pacific (1959) – the survivors of...
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    recommendations". In 2002, the petroleum companies TotalEnergies and Kerr-McGee were awarded contracts to explore for oil in the region. In December 2004...
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    Nichols, starred Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, a whistleblower at the Kerr McGee Cimarron nuclear facility who dies under suspicious circumstances. Ephron...
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