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Pressure started to build up in the system as the hydrocarbon vapors and the nitrogen remaining in the tower and associated pipework from when it had been put back in service became compressed with the increasing volume of raffinate. The operations crew thought that the pressure rise was a result of overheating in the tower bottoms as this was ...
Marathon Oil Tower is a skyscraper in Uptown Houston. The building rises 562 feet (171 m) in height. [1] It contains 41 floors, and was completed in 1983 and construction only took 22 months. [2] First City Tower currently stands as the 20th-tallest building in the city.
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 ExxonMobil Building (also known as Exxon Tower, and formerly as Humble Oil Building) at 800 Bell Street in Houston, Texas is a 45-story, 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m 2) skyscraper built in 1963, designed by Welton Becket & Associates. [1]
Texas Tower 2; note tropospheric scatter dish antennae on edge of platform. Each tower consisted of a triangular platform, 200 feet (61 m) on each side, standing on three caisson legs. [3] [4] The structures were constructed on land, towed to site, and jacked up to clear the sea surface by 67 feet (20 m). [3]
The TC Energy Center is a highrise that represents one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture construction in downtown Houston, Texas.The building has been formerly known as the RepublicBank Center, the NCNB Center, the NationsBank Center, and the Bank of America Center.
A 1924 issue of Concrete magazine said that the operation at 1000 La Brea Ave. appeared to be "the pioneer mixing plant in the West," the first of its kind offering "ready-mixed Portland cement ...
The Petroleum Building in 1951. The Petroleum Building also became a hub of social life for the oil and business magnates and their families. From 1929 until 1973, the Tejas Club hosted meetings on the top floor, which had originally been a cafeteria for The Texas Company.