WHOHOO!
Just in time for peak Hurricane season.
$10.00 gas, here we come!
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anyone really believe it was an accident?
seriously?
There are just too many unanticipated happenings in America.
This is what the emergency reserves are for, not for that scumbag Biden to siphon off and give to China.
Here we go. One of many “accidents” to come.
Another weird accident.
Price increases in diesel. Just in time for the harvest season.
Fires at food processing plants across the nation. Now a fire at an oil refinery. I hope that doesn't become a thing, too.
You need to ask the moderators to change the date of the article. Or, is it really 10/27/22? If so, I’ve missed a few birthdays.
This sucks. Whiting is huge.
Why does it have to be in my state (Michigan)?
Same as the Wendy’s lettuce spreading e.coli last week.
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If you buy an EV this wont be a problem. 😳😡👎
Refineries are big fat targets for robotic/remote-controlled devices carrying small charges. If not a drone that lands on top of something explody, then a small tracked vehicle which infiltrates the plant site and slowly crawls under something explody.
Refineries and other critical infrastructure will need continuous guarding by AI-powered swarms of flying and crawling robots, to defend against aggressor swarms of flying and crawling robots. And more physical barriers will be needed, including a lot of netting and mesh.
Well, yeah, what else should we have expected now that gas prices have started to drop?
Explains why gas went up 30 cents/gal here ...
Maybe this was a vaxxident. Man with a vaxxed up brain messed things up. And kaboom you get a fire and destruction of equipment.
Funnily enough, Russia has been experiencing a lot of ‘Unanticipated Shutdowns’ or smoking accidents in its power network, not to mention airbases and military dumps.
government has something to do with this
This is one of the original very large refineries in the US. It's lineage starts with Standard Oil, then Amoco after the breakup and finally BP after BP bought Amoco in about 2000.
I did a quick search and was surprised to find practically no real information about the fire. Curious. Best that I can tell, the fire was at one of the three crude oil units at the front end of the refining steps.
Reading between the lines, I'm guessing that about 20% of the crude oil handling capacity is offline pending repairs. The entire refinery tripped offline apparently. I'm sure that was quite a few hours as units would have been crashing down all over the place. I've been through this one time at a petrochemical facility several times larger than this BP refinery.
The one consistent thing stories have mentioned is an “electrical fire”. It doesn't appear that the fire was catastrophic in the sense of destroying the crude unit involved.
Fearless prediction is that the refinery will restart in a few days. Whether that particular crude unit will restart again is an open question. Engineers are working through that question already. Repair? Demo old crude unit and replace with new? Demo old unit and spend $$$ on upgrading existing crude units? Demo and downgrade existing refinery capacity?
I’ll stop the speculations here.