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  1. Nov 8, 2024 · November 8, 20245:22 AM PSTUpdated 5 days ago. MOSCOW, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A overnight Ukrainian drone attack struck an oil refinery in the Russian city of Saratov but caused no significant damage ...

  2. Jan 31, 2024 · Among the recent spate of drone attacks on Russian refineries linked to Ukraine was a strike on a St. Petersburg oil terminal on January 18, which was the first on Putin's home region, Leningrad ...

    • “Vulnerable to Catastrophe”
    • Tragedies Continue
    • Bp Pulls Back
    • Texas City Hasn’T Forgotten

    All 15 contractors killed that warm afternoon were working with Leining and other BP employees in or near the group of office trailers that BP had placed on refinery grounds to house workers during a turnaround — industry lingo for shutdowns, maintenance and startups — the most dangerous time at a refinery. Most had just returned from a safety lunc...

    In the decade since the Texas City disaster, the problems that triggered it continue to pop up in probes of subsequent accidents, said Daniel M. Horowitz, a longtime top CSB official. Tesoro’s Puget Sound refinery, just north of Seattle, saw the deadliest accident of the past decade. On April 2, 2010, a damaged heat exchanger ruptured, spewing 500-...

    In the decade before the Texas City disaster, BP had already reported more fatalities nationwide than any other major U.S. refining company, records show. The company has since reduced its refinery footprint, selling off facilities in Carson, Calif., and Texas City. Between 2005 and 2011, seven additional workers died at BP refineries, including fo...

    BP no longer runs the Texas City refinery. Marathon Petroleum Co. bought the sprawling complex for $2.5 billion in 2012. The company initially continued BP’s policy on makeshift offices and eventually developed its own, said Tommy Garland, a United Steelworkers health and safety representative who has worked at the site since 2008. But a decade aft...

  3. Approximately $2.5 billion of liabilities for BP. The Texas City refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a flammable hydrocarbon vapor cloud ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery.

  4. Jan 29, 2024 · * Russian air defences thwarted a drone attack on Jan. 29 on the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev said.

  5. Mar 13, 2024 · Ukraine launched overnight drone attacks on three Russian oil refineries, a Ukrainian defense source told CNN on Wednesday, as Kyiv intensifies its cross-border strikes days before Vladimir Putin ...

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  7. Jan 19, 2024 · Russian media say four oil tanks caught alight and the fire then spread over an area of 1,000 sq m (10,763sq ft). Russian authorities in the Bryansk region say no-one was hurt.

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