BP/Amoco Explosion in Texas City

[INSANEDADDY 0]

My condolences go out to the friends and family of the victims out in Texas city. I work in a refinery here in Deer Park and always play the "what if?" game. Its been 15 years since the Phillips tragedy. If you work in a refinery long enough, your bound to see some sort of catastrophic event. We are definitely not making ice cream out here.



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[Slappie 9]

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

I made it a clicky... I'm with you in my sorrow for the lost and the injured. Being burnt over 99% of your body is nothing nice.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[Rebecca 0]

Right there with you. My heartfelt condolences to those grieving.

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[lawrocket 3]

Jeez. I'm shaking here. My ex-girlfriend works in a unit there. I haven't talked to her in four years, but Christ...

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[INSANEDADDY 0]

Does anyone on here know anyone that works at the BP/Amoco Refinery? I spoke with some co-workers this morning that are on emergency response teams. When Refinery's have catostrophic incidents all the other plants come together for aid. They said the damage is pretty substantial. Very tragic indeed.

You dont't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when.......You can only decide how you're going to live........NOW.
-BASE 1605 Night BASE 227

[RevJim 0]

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records indicate the one unaccounted-for worker checked out and left the refinery, but no one has heard from him,

Ruh roh.

Condolences to family and friends, but I smell a rat...

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Karma
RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1

[lawrocket 3]

Is there any casualty list whatsoever? The phone number I had for her doesn't work anymore.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[DrunkMonkey 0]

Cannot wait for them to use this as an excuse to further hike gas prices...

[Slappie 9]

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Cannot wait for them to use this as an excuse to further hike gas prices...

It will come. The plant produced 3% of the gasoline for this country.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[sum1mom 0]

My company does a great deal of consulting with the BP TX City folks. One of my guys was leaving to go out there right before this happened.

It is my understanding that the unit was in a "turnaround" and the people that died were from a contractor J.E. Merrit, who I believe is an affiliate of Jacobs.

This tragedy has affected so many. Condelences and prayers to all.

[Rebecca 0]

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Cannot wait for them to use this as an excuse to further hike gas prices...

It will come. The plant produced 3% of the gasoline for this country.

Oh crap. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Any news on the victims yet?

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[RevJim 0]

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Cannot wait for them to use this as an excuse to further hike gas prices...

It will come. The plant produced 3% of the gasoline for this country.

But the whole plant isn't down:

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About 433,000 barrels of crude oil are processed a day at the plant, producing 3 percent of the U.S. supply. Other than the unit affected by the blast, the rest of the refinery was running normally, said BP spokesman Hugh Depland

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Karma
RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1

[Beerlight 0]

I was watching all the EMS helos flying in and out plus ALL the F-16's that were overhead during the afternoon. It was eerie. I'm only about 15 air miles from the site..... My girlfriends school she teaches at in Galveston was rocked by the blast.

[sum1mom 0]

I work in Clear Lake. I could see the smoke from my office window.

I was expecting a great deal of black billowing smoke, but because the explosion was related to higher end (hydrocarbon) product, the affect didn't "appear" as bad as it actually was..

I agree.......it is absolutely eerie.

[Brains 2]

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Does anyone on here know anyone that works at the BP/Amoco Refinery? I spoke with some co-workers this morning that are on emergency response teams. When Refinery's have catostrophic incidents all the other plants come together for aid. They said the damage is pretty substantial. Very tragic indeed.

Prayers to all those affected. I also have friends that work at Exxon and at Lyondell PC. Three of them are on a part of the emergency response unit. Scary stuff.

Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you.

[lawrocket 3]

Does anyone know whether alky-2 went up?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[DrunkMonkey 0]

Having spent 2 months in Beaumont in August, I can say that part of TX is like Satan's steamroom. I was in MOPP 4 in the friggin 90º swamp... Lost 20# on that TDY...

[lawrocket 3]

Yeah, I remember spending 3 weeks at Ft. Hood in the middle of August. I got to MOPP up, too.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[sum1mom 0]

I believe it was only the isomerization unit, which is upstream of the alky unit. I will keep you posted as I find out more details - they are coming out pretty slowly.

[lawrocket 3]

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I believe it was only the isomerization unit, which is upstream of the alky unit. I will keep you posted as I find out more details - they are coming out pretty slowly.

Thank you. She told me long ago that "when this place goes up, sue them, because it will." I asked her why there was an alky-2 and alky-3 but no alky-1. She said, "there used to be one."

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[INSANEDADDY 0]

I work in an Alky unit here in Deer Park. When I hired in, I can remember the process specialist asking me if I had ever worked in an Alky plant before. He told me they dont catch on fire and burn. They explode and leave large holes in the ground. The control room I am sitting in right now is 40 feet from an Alky unit that has the potential to wipe Deer Park off the map.
I just read where they confirmed another body. It is a very sad day in the Petrochemical industry.

You dont't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when.......You can only decide how you're going to live........NOW.
-BASE 1605 Night BASE 227

[JohnRich 4]

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I was watching... ALL the F-16's that were overhead during the afternoon.

Up to this point, I had presumed that this was just another refinery accident - these things happen quite a bit here in oil country.

However, your comment about F-16's make me think of the possibility of... terrorism!

[Beerlight 0]

I left work at 3 to go to play golf... F-16's were making orbits down toward Texas City. At first I thought they were just shooting high overhead patterns at Ellington Field (I work next door to it), but that definitely wasn't the case. They were overhead ORBITING.....

[JohnRich 4]

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F-16's were making orbits down toward Texas City.

Let's hope it's just a precautionary thing.

It's often been said that the concentrated area of refineries down there would make a good target for terrorists, out to make a point about our oil dependence.

[DrunkMonkey 0]

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F-16's were making orbits down toward Texas City.

Let's hope it's just a precautionary thing.

It's often been said that the concentrated area of refineries down there would make a good target for terrorists, out to make a point about our oil dependence.

Refineries are considered soft targets, and post-9/11 policy is to provide air cover to potential terrorist events.