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On 31 January 2013 in Mexico City, an explosion caused by a gas leak occurred beneath Building B-2 at the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex (Pemex Executive Tower), a skyscraper complex that is the headquarters of Pemex, the Mexican state oil company. [1]
Liquefied gas Horton tanks similar to the six spherical tanks involved in the San Juanico disaster LPG bullet tanks. There were 48 tanks of this type in the Pemex plant. Note how this modern installation incorporates some of the lessons learned from San Juanico: an uncongested, well ventilated area, with the horizontal tanks in a parallel cluster configuration, which minimizes the effects of ...
A 911 call to local police reported the leak at 17:04 hours, and the explosion occurred at 19:10 hours. [22] When first informed of the leak, Pemex did not initially close the valve because they did not consider the leak "important". [23] It took four hours to extinguish the explosion's fire. [4] [17] Residents from the surrounding areas were ...
At least 13 people died in an explosion that rocked a major petrochemical facility of Mexican national oil company Pemex in the Gulf state of Veracruz.
At least one person was killed and over a dozen were injured when a pipeline of state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) exploded in the central Mexican state of Puebla after it was breached by ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least one contractor was killed after a fire struck an offshore platform operated by Mexico's national oil company Pemex, the firm said in a statement on Sunday, adding ...
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The 2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion was a large oil pipeline explosion that occurred at 5:50 am CST [1] on December 19, 2010, in the city of San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla, Mexico. The pipeline, running from Tabasco to Hidalgo , [ 1 ] was owned by the Pemex petroleum company, and exploded after thieves from the Los Zetas drug ...