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On the northwestern edge of the plant, [1] in a remote utility area, [4] was a 900,000 US gal (3.4-million L) storage tank, measuring about 40 feet (12 m) tall and 62 feet (19 m) in diameter, [11] that temporarily stored wastewater from the plant's propylene oxide and styrene monomer operations. [6]
April 23, 2014 - There was an explosion followed by a fire, at the Williams Gas Plant near Opal, Wyo. The entire town of Opal was evacuated after 4 p.m., according to the natural gas company Williams. [230] September 23, 2014 - 4 men had severe burns from an explosion at a gas plant pumping station, near Opal, Wyoming. One man died later on ...
That failure caused a nearby 16 inch gas pipeline to explode and burn about 20 minutes later. The resulting fire could be seen for 35 miles. There was no injuries. [31] April 16 – An explosion & fire in a gas feeder line to an underground gas storage facility in Columbus Junction, Iowa burned down a barn, and damaged other buildings. This was ...
An explosion has triggered a large fire at a chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas, sending massive plumes of black smoke into the sky. ... By 10:30 a.m. local time, that radius was reduced to one ...
The 2017 Arkema plant explosion was an industrial disaster that took place during Hurricane Harvey in Crosby, Texas. Flooding from the hurricane disabled the refrigeration system at the plant which manufactured organic peroxides. The unrefrigerated organic peroxides decomposed and self-ignited. [1] [2] Burned containers at the Arkema site
A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of ...
At the end of an unnamed private road in Red River County, on a brisk fall day in 2019, Texas fire marshals approached the site of an explosion. Chunks of concrete littered the ground, while ...
No remotely operated fail-safe isolation valves existed in the combined plant/firefighting water system. In addition, the regular-service fire-water pumps were disabled by the fire which destroyed their electrical power cables. Of the three backup diesel-operated fire pumps, one had been taken out of service, and one ran out of fuel in about an ...