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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 .
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 ...
Texas City explosion may refer to: Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire
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 ...
Police dash camera video captured the moment a house in Texas exploded after a car had hit a gas line on the property. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Texas house explosion caught on camera ...
The about 14,000 residents of Port Neches 95 miles (153 km) east of Houston were told to flee late on Wednesday when air monitors detected high levels of cancer causing petrochemicals butane and ...
The fatal explosion involved at most a few tonnes of explosive. A larger explosion of about 80 tonnes of ammonium nitrate emulsion, ANE, an emulsion of ammonium nitrate, fuel and water, UN 3375) was caused by fires under storage facilities at the site at 11:02 AM. There were no fatalities in the second explosion because the site had been evacuated.
Texas City disaster: Texas City, Texas, United States 16 April 1947: Ammonium nitrate: 0.73–0.86 kt (3.1–3.6 TJ); some sources suggest 3.2 kt [110] 0.79 kt (3.3 TJ) N1 launch explosion: Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 110, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union: 3 July 1969: Rocket propellant (kerosene and liquid oxygen)