Posted on 07/31/2019 12:55:11 PM PDT by robowombat
Major Fire Engulfs Oil Refinery in Houston, 37 Injured
22:47 31.07.2019(updated 22:51 31.07.2019)
A fire broke out Wednesday at an ExxonMobil plant in Houston, Texas. Video footage from the scene showed a large plume of smoke coming from the oil refinery. ExxonMobil has urged local residents to shelter as a precaution, ABC News reported.
Look which way the flag is blowing, and then run the other way....
More than mildly disturbing to me that, here on FR where we have a history of both KNOWING and BEING better, there’ve been more comments fraught with concern over possible jumps in the price of pump gas than there have been expressing concern about the 37 reported injured.
That is NOT a good “look” for us, here.
It seems that this plant manufactures polyethylene and polypropylene feedstocks for plastics industry. Not fuels.
Just when gas prices were starting to drop.
How convenient.
It was ...
Tragic and expensive for EOM.. no hazard to their neighbors.
No, it was in their ethylene plant.. BOPX
Which means more work for E&C companies. OK with me.
The US refineries have very good security. The problems arise because the refineries are all very old. The Mobil plant in Beaumont and the Shell plant outside of New Orleans were supplying petro products during WW 1.
No matter how much oil is or isn't available they can ALWAYS find a reason to escalate those pump prices.
As several posters have said, this SHOULD have no effect whatever on supply. But that won't matter. The price will still go up. Why? Because it can.
Why don't you explain the economics behind your theory?
Economics, hell. How about experience? Every time there's one of these "refinery fires," which happen with an astounding frequency (and regularity), the price of gasoline goes up.
It’s one chemical tower burning, a very small part of the complex.
Could it be..The Devil?
Oh, no....not another one! Prayers for the ones injured in this fire.
*Ping*
It must be. Cuz heaven knows an oil company would never rip anyone off.
Apparently, what they teach in "journalism" school s nowadays is,
"If you don't have a story, go hyperbolic and EXAGGERATE!!!!!!"
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That is one small processing unit in a polypropylene ("plastics raw material", for journalism and education majors) in a PLASTICS plant, not a "REFINERY"!
Nothing was "engulfed" -- aside from that one minor vertical tower...
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Need I say that I despise today's ignoramuslibtardmedia?
I know. Can’t get an honest non-dramatic answer from them. They are also capitalizing on the really BIG fire that they had in the area a couple of months ago. LOL! Sorry all those people were injured, though.
My source says that most injuries were small spatters of hot material; no hospitalization needed...
(FWIW, I worked my way thru college, working summers in the plants along the Houston Ship Channel...)
You did sound like you knew something about plants vs refineries. My brother has lived in Houston since graduating college and taught 5th grade in the Pasadena/Deer Park area.
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