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March 8, 2012 - Lightning caused an oil tank battery fire in southwest Oklahoma City. [121] April 18, 2013 - A Lightning strike caused a tank battery fire in NE Oklahoma City. [122] December 17, 2014 – Coal County, 2 dead, 3 injured [123] [124] February 16, 2016 – One person was injured in an explosion, at a Pittsburg County oil field.
A large fire is burning just outside downtown Tulsa, the Tulsa Fire Department reported on Nov. 19, 2024. According to the business' website, Royal is a "leading manufacturer and marketer of ...
January 20 – The "Big Inch" gas pipeline exploded and burned, near Caldwell, Ohio, causing 500 foot high flames, and damaging farm buildings. There were no injuries. [1] March 13 – An overhead pipeline at a refinery in Martinez, California leaked, causing flammable fumes to spread onto a highway. An automobile ignited the fumes, killing a ...
August 24 – 2012 Venezuela Refinery Explosion. An explosion and fire at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex killed 48 and injured 151. September 11 – 2012 Pakistan garment factory fires. A fire in a Karachi garment factory killed at least 312 workers. [247] [248] September 11 – 2012 Pakistan garment factory fires. A fire in a Lahore shoe ...
A fire Saturday at an Oklahoma facility that handles natural gas prompted mandatory evacuations for a wide swath of homes and businesses near the Medford plant.
In August BP plc (NYSE: BP) announced that it would sell its Carson, California, refinery to Tesoro Corp. (NYSE: TSO) for $2.5 billion. The sale was part of BP's effort to shed $38 billion in assets.
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 ]
Deals on vehicles and jewelry through a U.S. government auction website were a steal in more ways than one: An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty to hacking a website to buy the items for $1 each ...