Big Boom...15 Dead in Texas City.

[Turn7]

I worked at that plant from '90-'92.

I hate to hear about that but, I always felt uneasy working there. Glad I got away from that stuff.

70 hospitalized.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/032305_local_txcity.html

http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/05/03/24/bp.jpg

[devilmaster]

5 bucks says some gas station in a different state immediately raised prices.....

[Wabbit]

Gas went up 6 cents since last night. Don't know if it's related to this though.

[KLang]

I work in Stafford and could see the smoke on the horizon when I left work yesterday.

According to a story at CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/plant.blast/index.html) production has not been effected much if at all. Not that they won't raise gas prices anyway.

[racer2c]

I work in Stafford and could see the smoke on the horizon when I left work yesterday.

According to a story at CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/plant.blast/index.html) production has not been effected much if at all. Not that they won't raise gas prices anyway.

I was watching the report this AM on CNN and had to roll my eyes when they said "15 dead in refinery Explosion. Production unaffected".

[Jervis Tetch 1]

Didn't Texas City suffer a huge-ass explosion back in the late 40s?

[Turn7]

Yup.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/lyt1.html

http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster3.JPG

[dando]

Windows blown out 10 miles away. :eek:

-Kevin

[Ed_Severson]

My dad works at the Marathon plant in Texas City, and was driving by the BP facility when the accident happened. He says the blast blew his truck nearly off the road, and his estimation was that the resulting fireball was 300 to 400 feet high. :eek:

Scary as hell. I worked at a refinery for a few summers as an intern before I changed my major. I saw one little fire on a heat exchanger when I was 19, and I could not get out of there fast enough. I can't (and don't want to) imagine what this would have been like.

Bottom line -- don't **** around with hydrocarbons.

[Ankf00]

I worked at that plant from '90-'92.

I hate to hear about that but, I always felt uneasy working there. Glad I got away from that stuff.

70 hospitalized.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/032305_local_txcity.html

http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/05/03/24/bp.jpg

one of my best buds was stupid enough to go there... he's ok though, he's been ranting about getting the hell out of there ever since they rejected his app for upstream ops after his 4 coop terms, hopefully he follows through this time. :saywhat:

[Ankf00]

Gas went up 6 cents since last night. Don't know if it's related to this though.

oil prices dipped today despite the fact

that BP plant is one of the handfull of "super-plants" in the US that can handle approx 500,000 barrels a day, another one of them is the Exxon plant in baton rouge where the locals shoot guns into the air on new years just across the street from the facility :saywhat:

[Jervis Tetch 1]

We have a few of these places in Los Angeles. In fact, I'm about 12 miles from one (Carson). I remember there was a fire there back in 89. Could have been worse.