Posted on 08/28/2012 6:10:36 AM PDT by thackney
All fires have been extinguished at Venezuela's biggest oil refinery after raging for more than three days following a deadly explosion, officials said Tuesday.
State television reported that the flames had been put out in the three fuel tanks that had been ablaze, and showed images of one tank smoldering. The smoke rising from the Amuay refinery had diminished markedly by dawn on Tuesday.
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Venezuela crude refinery burns a fourth day after 48 killed
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/08/28/venezuela-crude-refinery-burns-a-fourth-day-after-48-killed/
Fire spreads at Venezuela refinery, 41 dead
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/08/25/20120825PNI0825-wir-venezuela-oil-refinery-explosion-fire.html
A fire at a Venezuelan refinery spread to a third fuel tank on Monday nearly three days after a powerful explosion that killed 41 people and ignited the blaze, Vice President Elias Jaua said.
Jaua said in a message on Twitter that a third tank had just ignited at the Amuay refinery. The refinery has been in flames since Saturday, and officials had previously said they hoped to blaze to keep diminishing until it could be extinguished.
Falcon state Gov. Stella Lugo told the Venezuelan radio station Union Radio that the death toll had risen to 48, but later said the correct number was 41 and that some victims’ names had been mistakenly included twice on a list.
About 150 people were injured in the disaster, 33 of whom remain in hospitals, Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega said at a news conference at the refinery complex. “We still don’t have facts to determine the causes of the accident,” she said.
Uh, replacing trained refinery workers with Chavista communist cronies ?
I just started reading Red Storm Rising again. Weird timing.
I read that 20 square kilometers of refinery complex was destroyed. I know squat about refineries, but that sounds seriously huge. How long will it take to rebuild what has been lost?
That sounds really too large to be believable. I don't think the largest refinery in the US comes to that size for the entire facility.
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