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Washington D.C. March 23, 2020 - The US Chemical Safety Board is releasing an updated animation detailing the tragic events which occurred 15 years ago today at the BP America Refinery in Texas City, TX, when a massive hydrocarbon release and ensuing explosion and fire killed 15 and injured 180 others. The massive explosion was a landmark ...
- Refinery Explosion
Accident Type: Oil and Refining - Fire and Explosion....
- Refinery Explosion
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.
- “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...
Jun 25, 2024 · The obvious target for retaliatory strikes on refineries would be the Ukrainian refining sector, but it was already weak before the beginning of the war, and the only refinery that was running when the war started—Kremenchug—was attacked soon after the war began and then again in February 2024, shortly after the first drone attacks on Russian refining.
May 8, 2024 · The Ukrainian strikes have dealt a significant blow to Russia’s refining capacity, knocking out up to 900,000 barrels per day. Repairs will be slow and expensive, in part because refinery stacks—where oil is distilled into its constituent parts—are huge and complex pieces of equipment that take years to design and build, and in part because Western sanctions are hampering Russian firms ...
- Michael Liebreich
Mar 16, 2024 · Drone attacks on oil sites in Russia have caused... This screengrab from social media purports to show the aftermath of a drone strike on an oil facility in Syzran, Samara region, at March 16, 2024.
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