Posted on 05/05/2010 10:57:54 AM PDT by TXnMA
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.
BTTT
The equipment for tanker ops is provided with failsafe, see #61. The ignition source must be provided by someone deliberatly.
In a consumer filling station... The hose and nozzle are grounded. If the person does not connect the nozzle to the car by first touching the car with the other hand at any point other than the metal fill port; there's a possibility that a spark will occur that can ignite any vapors that might be exiting the fill port.
The nozzle should never be placed in the fill port, w/o first touching the car at a point adjacent to the fill port while holding the nozzle.
Ah. Now your post makes sense. Thanks.
Fairly uncommon, but it does happen. If they all made the news and people read about each one they would think it’s a huge number. You just don’t hear about them it’s not news.
The driver of this 18-wheeler is MISSING. Just like the 11 oil rig workers are “MISSING”. What’cha gonna say now you anti-coincidence people? I’ve got my shiney new TIN FOIL HAT ON AND I’M PROUD!
The driver left the scene prior to the explosion. But the cover-up will be that he was incinerated in the explosion.
Makes me wonder about the oil rig explosion.
Add to this, a refinery outside of Memphis had a major fire last week.
I suspect you are right, but the problem is we have such a strange and secretive president. It’s easy to suspect him of anything. He’s divisive, calling us ‘teabaggers’ and ‘bitter clingers’. He’s friends with a bomb terrist and his nutty ‘religious’ leaders are even more wacko than Ayers is.
Coincidence. Coal mines, oil rigs, refineries.. See post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2504127/posts (I might have missed the mark a bit regarding the oil rig sinking.. It was a floating oil rig, but.. You can’t rule out the “art of coincidence”.
Refinery fires are hardly rare occurrences.
By the way, we are under attack.. As we have been since the Clinton era.. Not enough people are stepping back at seeing what’s happening.
In another life, I ran at least 15 FPs a day, both OC and CC. Today, I work in the petroleum liquids handling industry.
The reason I say FP is non sequitor is that the ambient temperature relative to the FP temp is simply an indication of what happens at the ignition source. In the right concentration, vapors don’t need to be at FP-temp to ignite - if there is an ignition source (LEL).
What I speculate happened here is that vapors from the loading event moved to an ingnition source. The flame followed the vapor trail back to the loading point and “boom”.
Lots of specific things could have been the cause, including improper loading operations. Only extensive forensics will pin-point the cause.
“By the way, were the “11 missing” oil rig workers ever found?”
Is that bothering you too?
Funny how there’s no photos of the dead, or even list of their names out there.
The Øbozo regime has been on this since The Day Before Day One...
As I said in an earlier post to Commish, the United Steelworkers Untion website appears to be basing their articles on this administration’s Dept of Energy statistics. I remember reading not long ago that the USW is heavy involved in wind technology
So, given all that, I’d sleep a little better with outside independent studies confirming these numbers.
Funny how there’s no photos of the dead, or even list of their names out there.
Happy now?
Remembering those lost on Deepwater Horizon
Jason Anderson
Aaron Dale Burkeen
Donald Clark
Stephen Curtis
Roy Wyatt Kemp
Karl Kleppinger
Gordon Jones (M-I SWACO)
Blair Manuel (M-I SWACO)
Dewey Revette
Shane Roshto
Adam Weise
http://www.deepwaterhorizoncondolences.com/
It is not unusual for people to not be recovered from sea based disasters.
Oh good.
Fer a moment there, I thought I read that the terrorists had blown up a San Antonio brewery.
(Then again, ....)
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