Isn’t it strange that many of these oil related businesses, refineries, etc. all seem to “explode” for some unknown cause? I’ll leave that to your imagination but I suspect some foul play.
Not really all that strange at all.
“According to their website, DrillChem is an oil industry supply company that creates sealants, shale inhibitors, and lubricants.”
I.e. volatile chemicals.
Where I work, a few weeks ago we started smelling a strong chemical odor in the ladies room and in the hallway outside of recently renovated area of the plant that our sister company recently moved some of their operations into. Long story short it was coming from a spray booth, not for paint but for some sort of chemical treatment they apply to the industrial rollers they manufacture. The stuff is both volatile and toxic in high or over long term exposure.
What our safety department found was that the spray booth was vented to the outside but that the stack the contractor installed was too short and given the right wind conditions, fumes were getting sucked back into the building’s air handling unit, plus it didn’t have the proper filters/scrubber on it. Our safety manager made them stop operations of the spray booth until the venting issues could be corrected.
In dealing with volatile chemicals, stuff can and does happen. Sometimes it is because of improper handling, one stupid mistake, an accident spill, an equipment malfunction, or any combination of things.
Handling Hazardous Materials tends to have hazardous.