News Release

BNSF Honors 52 Safe Hazardous Materials Shippers At Fourth Annual Stewardship Awards Program

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 11, 2001 :

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 52 recipients of the company's Annual Stewardship Award. This award recognizes shippers for their safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail and supports the Chemical Manufacturers Association's Responsible Care Initiative.

The Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who successfully transported a minimum of 500 loaded tankcars of hazardous materials during the 2000 calendar year and who worked with their customers to ensure no non-accident releases (NARs) occurred during the entire transportation cycle. This is the fourth consecutive year that BNSF has given these awards.

The 52 award-winning companies that successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under Responsible Care were recognized this morning during a special presentation at BNSF's corporate headquarters in Fort Worth.

BNSF transported 4 percent more hazardous shipments in 2000 than in 1999 - yet NARs decreased by 11 percent. This decrease was a direct result of shippers properly securing tank cars prior to releasing them to the railroad.

The honorees are:

• Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc
• Andrews Petroleum, Inc.
• Bayer Corporation
• Big West Oil
• BOC Gases
• Bonneville Transloaders, Inc
• BP Amoco Chemicals (Whiting Plant)
• BP Amoco Chemicals (Pasadena Plant)
• BP Amoco Chemicals (Texas City Plant)
• CENEX, Inc.
• CF Industries
• Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
• Chevron Products Company
• Chief Ethanol Fuels, Inc.
• Coastal Refining & Marketing
• Conoco Canada Limited
• Diversified CPC International
• Eka Chemicals, Inc.
• Enterprise Products
• Ferrellgas
• Golden Bear Oil Specialties
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
• Huntsman Corporation
• Husky Oil Limited
• Kennecott Utah Copper
• Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC
• Kinetic Resources
• Koch Materials Company
• Lodgepole Energy Marketing LP
• Paramount Petroleum
• Minnesota Corn Processors, LLC
• Murphy Oil USA, Inc.
• Navajo Refining Company
• Nebraska Energy LLC
• Nexen Chemicals
• Nova Chemicals, Inc.
• Olin Corporation
• Oxy Vinyls
• Pioneer America
• Reagent Chemical
• Shell Canada Limited
• Solar Gas, Inc.
• Sterling Chemicals
• Tesoro Northwest Company
• Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc.
• Texaco Natural Gas, Inc.
• Texas Petrochemicals LP
• TexPar Energy, Inc.
• The Premcor Refining Group (Hartford Refinery)
• Ultramar Diamond Shamrock
• Vopak Terminals North America, Inc.
• Wynnewood Refining Company.

Headquartered in Fort Worth, BNSF operates one of the largest rail networks in North America, with 33,500 route miles of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces.

BNSF Headquarters
BNSF Railway Company
2650 Lou Menk Dr. 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 961057
Fort Worth, TX 76161-0057
Phone: (817) 352-1000