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An explosion and fire at an Exxon Mobil oil refinery in Texas on Wednesday left 37 people with minor injuries, in the latest of a series of petrochemical industry blazes this year in the Houston area.
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Two people were killed in a chemical release at Pemex's 312,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Deer Park oil refinery in Texas, the county sheriff said. Up to 35 people at the refinery ...
July 12, 1951 - A tank farm fire in Wilmington injured 3. [11] September 1, 1968 - Lightning struck an oil storage surface reservoir, at the Standard Oil Company of California refinery in El Segundo, igniting the wooden roof, and started a fire on the 7.25-acre surface of bunker oil that burned for 13 days.
The board convened in September of that year in Houston, in part because the Houston area had been home to large-scale disasters like the one in 1990. [22] Since then, the next biggest industrial disaster to occur in the Greater Houston area was the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion , [ 23 ] which killed 15 people and injured 180.
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An area estimated at 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) of the refinery was badly burned by the fire that followed the violent explosion, damaging refinery equipment worth millions of dollars. [69] The pressure wave was so powerful it blew out windows offsite up to three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) away. [67]
Free Press Houston was a free monthly newsprint publication focusing on arts, entertainment, culture and politics. Founded in March 2003 by Omar and Andrea Afra, Free Press Houston was distributed throughout the greater Houston area with particularly strong distribution in inner city neighborhoods such as Montrose, Heights, and the Houston Warehouse District.
For the record: 11:46 a.m. Jan. 21, 2024: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that the spill took place at a Valero refinery.It occurred at the Warren Resources facility on ...