News Release

BNSF Honors 45 Safe Hazardous Materials Shippers At Fifth Annual Product Stewardship Awards Program

Fort Worth, Texas, April 11, 2002:

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 45 recipients of the company's Annual Product Stewardship Award. This award recognizes shippers for their safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail and supports the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® Initiative.

The 45 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. Eight companies - Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc; Eka Chemicals, Inc.; Husky Energy; Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC; Nexen Chemicals; Nova Chemicals Corporation; Olin Corporation; and PPG Industries, Inc.- have won the honor each of the last five years.

The Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who successfully transported a minimum of 500 loaded tankcars of hazardous materials during the 2001 calendar year and who worked with their customers to ensure no non-accident releases (NARs) occurred during the entire transportation cycle. This is the fifth consecutive year that BNSF has given these awards.

While BNSF shipments of hazardous material in 2001 remained basically the same as the previous year, NARs decreased by 27 percent. This decrease was a direct result of shippers properly securing tank cars prior to releasing them to the railroad.

The honorees are:

AGP Corn Processing, Inc.

Agrium

Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc.

Andrews Petroleum, Inc.

Bayer Corporation

Bad Water Railway

Big West Oil, LLC

BP Amoco Chemicals

BP Products North America

Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives.

CF Industries, Inc.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., LP

Chevron Products Company

Diversified CPC International, Inc.

The Dow Chemical Company

Eastman Chemical Company

Eka Chemicals, Inc

Frontier Oil and Refining Company

Georgia Gulf Chemicals and Vinyls, LLC

High Plains Corporation

Honeywell

Husky Energy

Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC

KeySpan Energy Canada

Kinetic Resources (LPG)

Minnesota Corn Processors

Murphy Oil USA, Inc.

Navajo Refining Company

Nebraska Energy LLC

Nexen Chemicals

Nova Chemicals Corporation

Occidental Chemical Corporation

Olin Corporation

PCS Sales (USA), Inc.

Pioneer Americas, LLC

PPG Industries, Inc.

Reagent Chemical & Research, Inc.

Solar Gas, Inc.

Sterling Chemicals, Inc.

Suncor Energy, Inc.

Sunoco, Inc.

Teck Cominco American Incorporated

Texas Petrochemicals LP

Vulcan Chemicals

Western Gas Resources

A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF operates one of the largest rail networks in North America, with 33,000 route miles of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a wide variety of customer transactions. The railway moves more intermodal traffic than any other rail system in the world, is America’s largest grain-hauling railroad, and hauls enough coal to generate more than 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States.

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