Cities in Texas

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.…

Title: Applying the concepts of accident and causation to an analysis of the BP Texas City 2005 explosion Introduction: On the 23rd of March 2005, a massive explosion erupted in the BP refinery in Texas City. The incident occurred when a raffinate tower over filled during the start-up of an isomerization unit releasing flammable liquid and gases from a blowdown stack. The vapour entered an engine of a pick-up truck causing it to back fire and ignite the vapour cloud. Powerful explosions killed…

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…

Texas City, Texas also known as toxic city is a booming industrial area surrounded by the most significant ports in the Galveston Bay for the shipping community, and is surrounded by oil refineries and chemical plants (Ferling, 1996, p.48). Additionally, it is a city all too familiar with industrial accidents. However, nothing will ever compare to the most devastating industrial accident the state of Texas and America has ever seen; the 1947 Texas City Explosion. An article entitled “Texas City…

On March 23rd, 2005, an explosion ripped through the BP Texas City Refinery that cost 15 hard working Americans their lives and injured another 180. In addition to the tragic human cost, financial losses due to the explosion exceeded 1.5 billion U.S. dollars and forced over 43,000 Texas City residents to shelter-in-place (CSB, 2007, p.17). The explosion occurred during the startup of an isomerization (ISOM) unit at the plant, in which a hydrocarbon-raffinate distillation tower was overfilled and…

Dane Lewis Mr. Harris English 1301 15 Oct 2014 East Ohio Gas Plant Explosion On the twentieth of October, 1944 the East Ohio Gas Plant exploded causing a devastating fire spanning from north of St. Clair on East 63rd Street, and continued to East 55th. The exact reasons for the explosion are still unknown. However, many eye witnesses claim to know what happened. At 2:30 pm white gas began to leak from one of the four tanks. After mixing with air, the vapor from the tank became combustible…

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…

The city of Beaumont, Texas is anything, but intriguing. With its mediocre food, flat landscape, and small environment of entertainment, it is not incredibly appealing to the senses. However, Austin, Texas is on the complete opposite side of the spectrum. Austin processes a hilly landscape, tremendous food, and a wonderful day life that goes hand in hand with its vivid nightlife. The scenery of Beaumont and Austin contradict each other. Beaumont holds monotonous, unchanging acres upon acres,…

BP has undergone serious problems of safety before. For instance: In 2000 there were three accidents within 13 days at the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland, and in 2005 a large explosion at their Texas plant left 15 people dead and hundreds badly injured. In 2006 an oil leak was discovered at a pipeline owned by BP Exploration, Alaska (BPXA) in Prudhoe Bay, in which 6,400 barrels of oil (267,000 US gallons) spilled over 1.9 acres of land. In 2008 there was a major blowout at a gas-injection…

The growing pains in Texas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to expansion and modernization affect everyone. The rapid changes in Texas created chaos and prosperity for the people on the land. The swift changes caused people to face economic, social, political, and demographic issues differently and some faced with more difficult issues than others were. The demographics of the state experience great change because many were created in the cities. The people had to move in…