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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.
The explosion was heard 5 miles away from the Valero refinery and rocked buildings within a mile of the plant, according to local media reports. Valero's Texas City refinery hit by explosion, fire ...
Valero is ranked No. 31 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue as of 2018. [33] For 2023, the company reported earnings of US$9.149 billion, with an annual revenue of US$144.766 billion. Valero Energy's shares traded at $130 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$44 billion ...
Valero Energy: 2,181,300 13 CA, LA, OK, TN, TX 3 ExxonMobil: ... the 1975 Philadelphia Gulf refinery fire and 2005 Texas City refinery explosion. References
Oil supermajor BP PLC (NYSE: BP) has been seeking a buyer for its massive Texas City, Tex., refinery for nearly a year. The sale is part of the company's effort to shed $38 billion in assets to ...
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) announced this morning that it has purchased the 451,000 barrel per day Texas City refinery from BP PLC (NYSE: BP) for $598 million. Included in the sale are ...
March 23, 2005 – The Texas City refinery explosion; 15 dead, 180 injured [162] February 16, 2007, a propane fire erupted at the Valero McKee Refinery in Sunray, north of Amarillo. Three workers suffered serious burns, and the refinery was forced to shut down.
Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire This page was last edited on 29 ...