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Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...
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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
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 ...
Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire This page was last edited on 29 January 2024, at 03:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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 ...
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: BP Lawsuits Over Refinery Air Pollution A second BP disaster continues to produce expensive lawsuits. Nearly a quarter of Texas City's residents ...
December 14, 1940 - A tank farm fire I Texas City killed one person, and injured 18 others. [156] May 16, 1952 - A massive tank farm fire hit a Corpus Christi terminal. [155] April 11, 1965 - A gas well blew out in Parker County, causing a massive fire. Firefighter Red Adair had to be called in to control the well, which was capped on April 17 ...