Texas City Refinery

The Texas City explosion that occurred, killing 15 employees was a large news item at the time, though quickly fading from the headlines, BP was fined $21 million for the numerous violations that contributed to the Texas City explosion. Also occurring in the same year as the Alaska pipeline leak, these issues should have shown BP leadership that something was developing within the large corporation that needed attention. Browne at the helm earlier had ruthlessly implemented cost cutting and risk taking which spelled out imminent danger on the horizon for BP. The accidents that should have been the wake-up call to BP went unheeded. During Mr. Hayward’s tenure, BP had been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 760 safety violations in its refineries. The pledge that BP would address the safety problems that created the Texas and Alaska accidents never materialized. Instead four years went by and the company’s risk taking became worse. Just a year after the BP refinery explosion in Texas City, Tex., killing 15 workers and injured hundreds more the ‘Deepwater Horizon” oil well exploded in April 2010, resulting in death, fire, widespread environmental and economic damage along the Gulf coastline and is still felt today.…

The Texas City disaster was an accident in April 16, 1947, in the Port of Texas City, it’s was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, and one of the largest non-nuclear explosions. Fire started on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp her goods of roughly 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate ignated, with the initial blast and with chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities killing at least 581 people, including all but one…

Representatives of the I-75 Express Lanes Project Construction team met with the Evy Garcia (EG) to discuss her concerns regarding the increase presence of bugs, insects, snakes and iguanas in the back of her property. EG stated the insect and reptile problem has occurred due to construction activities in the area, and that because of this infestation she has not been able to watch her grandson. EG demanded to know what the department planned to do about this problem. Ed Perez (EP) advised EG…

low-sulfur gasoline (Reformate Splitter Unit: RSU) released into the Hall burned continuously recycled as fuel in the production process, which started July 2015. (2) Utilizing Hydrocracking: Product Fractionatorsfors released by flare stack as fuel in the production process, which started June 2015. (3) Installing the flare stack mounted on the floor (Ground Flare Stack) will be available in 2020 to reduce pollution to the environment because the combustion efficiency is higher than the…

Woodside energy is Australian oil and gas producer. The company was founded a year after Australia’s first oil discovery, 1953, in a place called Rough Range near Exmouth in Western Australia. Woodside energy was incorporated on 26 July as Woodside Oil Co NL. The company took the name from the small town called Woodside in Victoria. In 2014 Woodside celebrated the company’s 60th anniversary. In a relatively short period of time the company made huge successes in domestic gas production and…

BP and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill (case analysis) BP is a multinational oil and gas company. This company is headquartered in London, UK. Not so long ago, this company has faced one of the world’s worst environmental tragedies. After its explosion in April 20th, 2010, the company’s situation had kept on getting worse and worse. The communication problem is that the crisis team that Tony Hayward (the CEO of BP) prepared to find solutions to the issue isn’t making much progress. Each month…

organizations oil sales, it is able to bring in somewhere from $500 million USD to $2 billion USD in oil sales. Although this was a major contributing factor to the financing of the group, it has been in decline since the US-led coalition against the group started the airstrikes against the organization. During these airstrikes, through analyzing the contributing factors to the group’s financial section, the US has been able to destroy multiple oil fields the group relied on. In 2007, it was…

As of 2013, various Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) companies have applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish an LNG refinery and export center in Brownsville, Texas. Throughout the process, several citizens – as well as business entities and city councils, have voiced their opposition or support of the facility. Statement of the Problem Inadequate representation The FERC is responsible for providing public hearing meeting for each new facility application received,…

1.2.1 Refinery Processes It is impertinent to overlook at the refinery chemistry before describing the refinery processes. The chemistry is part of the refinery’s conversion section, which gets affected when the upgrading is considered. The conversion section purpose is to enhance the liquid fuels. There are two types of techniques under the section: a. Hydrogen addition technologies: Processes using this technology react hydrogen with the oil heavy products to enhance the H/C such that the…

heavier than ethanol. The percent of ethanol decreased as the experiment progressed while the water percentage increased. To increase the purity of the ethanol in the first fraction the temperature should be kept at a constant temperature that boils the ethanol yet does not boil the water. The Temperature at which the mixture began to boil was at 79 oC. This experiment shows how theoretically fractional distillation could work in an industrial setting. The fractions found in this experiment…