Posted on 04/08/2016 3:42:52 PM PDT by bananaman22
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.
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Two fires at two refineries?
What a coinky-dink.
Has terrorism been unequivocally ruled out yet?
Just in time to justify raising fuel prices for the summer.
That was my knee jerk as well
I doubt that, security is pretty tight not only by security personnel but by the workers themselves.
There are just so many things that can go wrong for a fire to start. Some of that oil is running through pipes around 800-900 degrees so a flange leak from a failed gasket can cause an instantaneous fire when it hits oxygen.
Whenever I see a story like this, my first though is, Texas City 1947.
Yeah. Right.
I bet they vet allah them as closely as they vet allah the muslim refujihadist from Syria.
“What a coinky-dink.”
Gas prices go up to $3.50 tomorrow.
Has Hillary! been unequivocally ruled out yet?
Clinton Calls for Exxon Probe After Company Cuts Off Foundation Funding
Hey, if she can claim a conspiracy in EmailGate why can't someone postulate one with her at the center of the recent rash of ExxonMobile fires?
Circa 1970 the hydrogen cracker at Exxon linden nj. It is a critical gas. The question of sabotage was never resolved to the best of my knowledge. The gov put extra security on the last site in Houston. The blast rattled windows 40 miles away.
Next up will be the completely unexpected (but totally predictable) fire/crisis at a California refinery.
how convenient
“Just in time to justify raising fuel prices for the summer.”
Ah, spring, the flowers blooming, the grass greening, and the traditional springtime refinery fires blackening the skies...
Well if you think so but I’m tellin ya, those crews are pretty tight and everyone knows one another, some times shit just happens.
LOL!!! (-}
Olbamah Akbahr.
Sometimes it does. But in a country massively infiltrated by military age male citizens of countries is it actively at war with, that may not be the way to bet.
lose the pool.
I thought for sure the first refinery fires of the spring\summer would be at the Port Arthur refinery now owned by the Saudis.
Oh ye of no knowledge...
First off, Petcoke is a solid. It's part of the "heavy ends" in petroleum processing.
Secondly, most petcoke is exported because it is typically more economical, depending on location, to export than to sell domestically because U.S. coal prices are substantially lower than international coal prices.
A Simple Guide to Oil Refining
The heaviest material in the refinery is Vacuum Tower Bottoms (VTB) or “resid.” If allowed to cool to room temperature, it would become a solid. Some resid is actually sold into the paving asphalt market as a blend component. Resid is too heavy and has too many contaminants to process in the FCC. The Delayed Coker is used to convert this heavy material into more valuable products. The delayed coker uses high temperature to break the hydro-carbon chains. Delayed coking reactions are less selective than FCC reactions. Delayed coking also produces a relatively low valued petroleum coke as a by-product.
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