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A massive fire broke out at the Petroleum refinery in Louisiana on Friday, forcing the plant, which is one of the largest oil refineries in the US, to shut down The fire broke out at the Marathon Petroleum’s Garyville refinery Friday morning, WDSU-TV in New Orleans reported. While the fire was extinguished on Monday, it still remains shut down, according to NOLA.com, the website of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The WSJ reported that the fire also led to a two-mile radius evacuation order. “Out of an abundance of caution, the facility began a shutdown process of units closest to the...

According to Lucas County Regional Dispatch, crews responded to the refinery in the 4100 block of Cedar Point Road in Oregon around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening for reports of injuries. BP Fire and the Oregon Fire Department worked to put out the fire. It’s unclear what sparked it. A statement from BP to 13abc said it is working closely with local fire crews as they respond to the fire. Per BP: The refinery can process up to 160,000 barrels of crude oil each day, providing the Midwest with gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane, asphalt, and other products

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.

Updated at 7:05 a.m. ET: A massive fire struck at the core of Chevron's large Richmond, Calif., refinery on Monday, spewing flames and a column of smoke into the air, and threatening a prolonged outage that may increase prices of U.S. gasoline. The fire was contained by 11 p.m. (2 a.m. ET), but not extinguished, according to the company. The fire has blazed for hours after it erupted at the refinery in a densely populated industrial suburb east of San Francisco. Smoke could be seen billowing over the Bay Area and four train stations were shut. Thousands of local residents...

RICHMOND -- Crews are responding to a large fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Flames and at least two large plumes of black smoke are visible from as far away as the Bay Bridge and a shelter in place warning has been issued.

SAN ANTONIO -- An 18-wheeler being loaded with fuel at a San Antonio refinery has exploded. Television stations showed footage Wednesday of an enormous black plume spewing from the AGE Refining Inc. unit on the city's southeast side. Refinery marketing director Jeff Morrow says the truck exploded late Wednesday morning at the facility that refines gas and jet fuel, but he had no other details. San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood told KENS-TV that the fire had spread to the refining facility, and authorities were trying to assess whether neighbors should be evacuated.

(Original story - posted April 27, 2007, 6:00pm CDT) Just before noon Friday, lightning struck the Wynnewood Oil Refinery in Garvin county. Officials say it hit a large storage tank holding 25,000 barrels of light oil, sparking a large explosion. KTEN's Andrea Kurys was on the scene. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials say two storms hit Wynnewood in less than an hour. Though they were small, they both produced giant lightning bolts. The explosion blew the roof of the barrel sky-high. Smoke could be seen for miles away. Luckily though, no one was injured. An emergency response team from the refinery...

The specter of $3 a gallon gasoline loomed closer Thursday as panicky buyers drove the wholesale spot market price sharply higher after a fire Wednesday damaged a key gasoline manufacturing component at the Golden Eagle refinery in Martinez. Gasoline that meets California's strict anti-pollution standards recently traded at $2.17 a gallon in the Bay Area wholesale spot market, up 13.5 cents or 6 percent from the closing price Wednesday, according to Denton Cinquegrana, an analyst for the Oil Price Information Service. A fire lasting from 4:15 p.m. to 5:05 p.m. Wednesday shut a fluid catalytic cracking unit at Golden Eagle...

Thursday, February 20, 2003 ©2003 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/02/20/national0913EST0552.DTL (02-20) 06:36 PST CORBIN, Ky. (AP) -- An explosion and fire rocked a plastics factory Thursday morning, injuring 18 workers and leaving two others unaccounted-for, authorities said. The blast at CTA Acoustics happened around 8 a.m., according to Ray Bowman, a spokesman with the state Division of Emergency Management. About 22 people were transported to hospitals, many likely burn victims, he said. The factory was burning and there was a release of an unknown chemical, he said. A low-hanging cloud was visible near the plant, and residents south of the plant...

I just turned and looked out my office window and saw a column of black smoke rising towards Union Beach/Perth Amboy NJ. I then felt the force of an explosion rattle my window.

Emeregency personnel are on the scene of a fire at the Tetraco chemical facility on the 2500 block of Francis Road in south Midland, and residences and businesses up to one-half mile away are being evacuated. CLICK HERE for a live report from the scene. CLICK HERE for residents' accounts of the fire. OPRIMA AQUI para un reporte en vivo desde el lugar de los hechos en Español.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two people were missing after a barge carrying gasoline exploded off New York's Staten Island on Friday, sending flames and huge clouds of black smoke high into the air, but officials in a city already jittery about security said it was an accident. The blast occurred at 10:10 a.m. EST at an oil terminal 16 miles southwest of Manhattan, where residents have been on edge and police on the highest security alert possible since the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks destroyed the World Trade Center. Two workers were unaccounted for and one worker was admitted to...

<p>Fire in San Deigo Oil plant (or refinery) recycling plant [AM edit] per Fox news ... breaking.</p>

This morning on Fox News there was a report of a middle eastern man being noticed by an off duty policeman photographing a Diamond Shamrock oil refinery in Texas. The man was apprehended by law enforcement. When questioned, he did not come up with any logical explanation for his photographing the refinery. The Fox video report showed the man in custody. The report also showed his late model car which was found to contain only maps of undisclosed locations.

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man who threatened to blow up a Chevron refinery unless he was paid a disability settlement was sentenced Friday to nearly four years in prison.</p> <p>Ronald Denton, 39, of Torrance, was given a 46-month term by a federal judge for interfering with interstate commerce by extortion and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction.</p>

East Chicago Amoco refinery on fire; need confirmation

<p>NEW YORK (AP) - An explosion rocked an oil refinery on the edge of Staten Island, sending black smoke and flames hundreds of feet into the air.</p> <p>"We have a preliminary report that tanker was transferring a product or was being fueled and somehow ignited," Fire Department Chief William Van Wart said.</p> <p>It wasn't immediately clear whether any of the dozens of oil tanks in the area were burning.</p>

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Fire broke out at an oil refinery on the edge of Staten Island, sending black smoke and flames hundreds of feet into the air over New York Harbor.</p> <p>An explosion was reported at Port Mobile, near the Outerbridge Crossing in the southwestern part of Staten Island, said a spokeswoman for the Staten Island borough office. The fire started at 10:10 a.m., according to a spokeswoman for the New York Fire Department.</p>

About 9:55AM, there was an explosion involving a propane barge, being fuelled at an Exxon-owned fuel storage facility on Staten Island (NY) at the edge of the Arthur Kill, which separated NY and NJ,not far from the heavily travelled Verrazano Narrows Bridge , which runs between Perth Amboy, NJ and Staten Island, NY. So far, the resulting fire involves a barge and some storage tanks. A thick pillar of plack smoke hangs over the area, and firefighters are trying to work out a means of combatting the blaze, before it spreads to other, nearby petroleum product tanks. We felt the...

I wonder if non-New Yorkers can appreciate how it feels to look up in the sky and see a vast plume of black smoke billowing into the air. A friend of mine IM'd me from a few blocks away and said, "28,000 New Yorkers are now going back into therapy." It seems that it was just an industrial accident, but when I saw it, the first thing I thought of was a story a private pilot friend of mine in Louisiana told me right after 9/11. He and his buddies were approached at their hangar in the week or two...