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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 ...
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 incident started at approximately 1:05 PM local time on October 23, 1989, at 1400 Jefferson Road, Pasadena, Texas. A powerful and devastating explosion and fire ripped through the HCC, killing 23 people—all working at the facility—and injuring 314 others (185 Phillips Petroleum Company employees and 129 contract employees). In addition ...
An investigation is underway into the fatal chemical leak at a Houston area oil refinery owned by Mexico's state oil firm Pemex, the company's top executive said on Friday. Pemex, as Petroleos ...
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 ...
March 23, 2005 – The Texas City refinery explosion; 15 dead, 180 injured [162] February 16, 2007, a propane fire erupted at the Valero McKee Refinery in Sunray, north of Amarillo. Three workers suffered serious burns, and the refinery was forced to shut down.
A fiery explosion Thursday inside an ExxonMobil plant in Texas, one of the largest refining and petrochemical facilities in the nation, has left at least four people injured.
Texas City, Texas: 15 170 Texas City refinery explosion: 2 October 2005 Tajikistan: 21 Unknown A bus running on liquefied gas exploded when it collided with another bus. [30] 13 November 2005 China: Jilin: 6 Unknown 2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions: 11 December 2005 United Kingdom: Hemel Hempstead: 0 43 Buncefield fire: 8 February 2006 ...