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Fire crews have contained a large fire at a refinery storage tank in Garyville, Louisiana, about 40 miles west of New Orleans, authorities said.
A massive fire erupted following a chemical leak at a Marathon Petroleum Corporation refinery in Louisiana. Marathon personnel and fire authorities responded to the scene of a naphtha spill and ...
A review of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) records show the Marathon refinery in St. John the Baptist Parish has reported 14 emergency incidents since 2019.
An 8-day long fire then consumed at least 45 acres of storage tanks and damaged nearby homes and businesses. In addition to a boy killed in his home, one Standard Oil workman died of a heart attack, another 40 were injured, and 1,500 evacuated. [49] On Nov 23, 1957, 2 workers were killed in a Whiting Standard of Indiana refinery fire. [49]
1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster; 1990 ARCO explosion; 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster; 2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster; 2018 Husky Energy Refinery explosion; 2019 Philadelphia refinery explosion; 2023 LaSalle chemical plant fire; 2023 Texas dairy farm explosion
1963 – Paraná forest fire, 20,000 square kilometres destroyed, killing at least 110, with 5,000 houses burned in September. 1966 – Serra de Sintra forest fire, outskirt of Lisbon, Portugal, 26.6 square kilometres (6,600 acres) destroyed, killing 26. 1967 – 1967 Tasmanian fires in Tasmania, Australia, 62 killed and over 900 injured.
The fire was visible from miles away, as the plumes of smoke were rising up hundreds of feet into the air. Massive fire breaks out at Marathon refinery near Los Angeles [Video] Skip to main content
This is a list of oil refineries. The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.