Hyperion to open Elk Point office Friday
Posted: Thursday, February 07, 2008
ELK POINT, S.D. -- Hyperion Resources will open its long-planned office in downtown Elk Point on Friday.
The office, at 109 Main St., will be staffed by company officials as it develops its proposed oil refinery and energy center on about 4,000 acres in southern Union County.
Hyperion said in a statement that the office will serve as both a public information center and provide a central location for employees and consultants who come to Union County for the project.
It will not serve as a construction office, the company said. Those offices would be located on the proposed refinery site, should the project proceed. It is currently in the preliminary stages of the zoning and environmental permitting processes.
The Dallas-based company said in a news release that the office will be open to anyone interested in learning more about the company and the oil refinery and "energy center" it is proposing to build.
"It has always been a priority for us to provide answers to the public and this office is another way for us to do just that," said Preston Phillips, project executive. "It also helps demonstrate our commitment to investing in Union County and the surrounding area as we move forward in our site selection process."
Phillips said the company is inviting everyone to stop in, whether it's to voice support for the project, to ask questions about it or any of the environmental and other permits it must secure, or to gather information and sign up for mailings.
The office will have copies of the air permit Hyperion has already submitted to the state and of the rezoning application now pending with the county, as well as the information it presented during three public forums held earlier this year throughout the county and in other public settings.
The office will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, with the exception of Tuesdays, when hours will be from 1 to 7 p.m.
If the project goes to construction, it will be the first oil refinery built from scratch in the United States since 1976.
-- Michele Linck
The office, at 109 Main St., will be staffed by company officials as it develops its proposed oil refinery and energy center on about 4,000 acres in southern Union County.
Hyperion said in a statement that the office will serve as both a public information center and provide a central location for employees and consultants who come to Union County for the project.
It will not serve as a construction office, the company said. Those offices would be located on the proposed refinery site, should the project proceed. It is currently in the preliminary stages of the zoning and environmental permitting processes.
The Dallas-based company said in a news release that the office will be open to anyone interested in learning more about the company and the oil refinery and "energy center" it is proposing to build.
"It has always been a priority for us to provide answers to the public and this office is another way for us to do just that," said Preston Phillips, project executive. "It also helps demonstrate our commitment to investing in Union County and the surrounding area as we move forward in our site selection process."
Phillips said the company is inviting everyone to stop in, whether it's to voice support for the project, to ask questions about it or any of the environmental and other permits it must secure, or to gather information and sign up for mailings.
The office will have copies of the air permit Hyperion has already submitted to the state and of the rezoning application now pending with the county, as well as the information it presented during three public forums held earlier this year throughout the county and in other public settings.
The office will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, with the exception of Tuesdays, when hours will be from 1 to 7 p.m.
If the project goes to construction, it will be the first oil refinery built from scratch in the United States since 1976.
-- Michele Linck
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