Huge Fire Erupts at ExxonMobil Refinery Near Houston

Oilprice.com ^ | Oh Lord It's A Fire

[bananaman22]

An enormous fire erupted an ExxonMobil refinery in Texas on Thursday. The Baytown refinery caught fire, leading to huge black plumes of smoke into the air, visible from downtown Houston.

Almost as soon as the fire in the ExxonMobil refinery was extinguished, we got reports of a fire in a refinery belonging to LyondellBasell Industries. CNBC reported that the fire occured in the coker unit of the refinery that can process over 263.000 barrels per day.

[null and void]

Glad to hear you never worry about terrorists.

[bigbob]

Some refineries are interconnected by pipes e.g ethylene, hydrogen -

[philman_36]

Glad to hear you never worry about terrorists.

Twisting my words is beneath you.

[wally_bert]

Pretty much the future in terms of hiring policies, especially for sensitive and critical slots I’d wager.

[Hoodat]

Which Lyondell refinery?

[PAR35]

One way to raise gas prices as the oil glut drives down prices.

[PAR35]

Oh, ye of little knowledge that think that the area impacted by a refinery fire has anything to do with the decision to raise prices.

[null and void]

No it isn't!

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[PAR35]

The Texas City 1947 blast was Ammonium Nitrate, not an oil refinery (although an oil storage facility was later involved).

[philman_36]

Oh, ye of little knowledge that think that the area impacted by a refinery fire has anything to do with the decision to raise prices.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Educate me, please! Show me!

[philman_36]

Smart ass!
{;^)

[null and void]

Moi???

~.~

[PAR35]

Gas prices have been trending down all week. Let’s see what the next week looks like.

[combat_boots]

Don’t the Saudis now own Exxon?

[X-spurt]

Like The Antiyuppie says these are almost a ritual along the Ship Channel.

[Axenolith]

Anyone who took a job previously held by someone who’d paid their dues for a past crime and lost it due to that program is no different that any other government welfare receiver...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bump for reference. Thanks for posting.

[T-Bone Texan]

$1.67 cash here for regular unleaded, up from a recent all time low of $1.49 cash a few weeks ago.

It may never get that low again in my lifetime.

[353FMG]

Either terrorism or just poor maintenance or operation. Remember that thousands of oil workers (white collar and blue collar) have been laid off since March of this year.