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The McKee refinery tank explosion and fire on Sunday, July 29, 1956, was an explosion and severe fire-related mass casualty event, killing 19 firefighters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The fire is considered to have the fourth (the September 11 attacks being first) most casualties of fire fighters in the United States for a single fire event. [ 2 ]
In the early morning of June 21, 2019, a fire and multiple explosions occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A release of hydrocarbons and hydrofluoric acid in the refinery's alkylation unit caused a ground-hugging vapor cloud which rapidly ignited, leading to three separate explosions minutes apart from each other.
On April 26, 2018, an explosion and subsequent fire occurred at the Husky Energy Oil Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin.An initial explosion was reported at 10:00 AM and was extinguished close to noon, however a piece of debris had hit a storage tank containing asphalt, which ignited after spilling across the refinery, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the air.
An area estimated at 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) of the refinery was badly burned by the fire that followed the violent explosion, damaging refinery equipment worth millions of dollars. [69] The pressure wave was so powerful it blew out windows offsite up to three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) away. [67]
Ukraine was blamed for the fire, which engulfed three rail cars. [10] The oil refinery fire was detected by NASA's FIRMS on 28 August 2024. On 26 August 2024, an explosion and subsequent fire took place burning some 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft), injuring seven workers. [11]
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As oil production increased, the oil shale refiners discovered that their refining process worked just as well with petroleum, and that petroleum was a cheaper raw material than shale oil. In 1861, the existing oil shale refiners switched to petroleum feedstock, and the oil shale mines shut down.
The Ricardo Zuloaga power plant in 2013. Tanks nos. 8 and 9 were located on high ground, behind the main building. At dawn, on Sunday, December 19, 1982, the sea-going tanker Murachi belonging to Maraven, a subsidiary of PDVSA, was moored off the Ricardo Zuloaga power plant in Tacoa and about to unload 15,000 tons of fuel oil, which would be used as fuel for power production.