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Costs. Approximately $2.5 billion of liabilities for BP. The Texas City refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a flammable hydrocarbon vapor cloud ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Texas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century) "News: Newspapers: Regional: United States: Texas". DMOZ.
Texas City disaster. 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 explosion was triggered by a mid-morning fire ...
March 5, 2024 at 6:01 PM. A Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died Tuesday while fighting a house fire ...
July 9, 2024 at 7:49 AM. At least eight people have died after Hurricane Beryl slammed into south-east Texas and Louisiana, knocking out power for nearly three million people. Beryl hit the ...
Homes flooding in Texas as severe storms ramp up across the South, including a threat of strong tornadoes Robert Shackelford, Dalia Faheid and Mary Gilbert, CNN April 10, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Capacity. 631,000 bbl/d (100,300 m 3 /d) Complexity index. 15.2. No. of employees. 1550. The Galveston Bay Refinery is an oil refinery located in the Texas City, Texas Industrial Complex on the edge of Galveston Bay. It is the largest oil refinery in North America with a capacity 631,000 barrels per day [1] and has been owned and operated by ...
November 8, 2023 at 2:44 PM. An explosion has triggered a large fire at a chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas, sending massive plumes of black smoke into the sky. The "plant explosion" and following ...