Five Deadliest Onshore Oil & Gas Blasts
Posted: 08/28/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT | 2
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In the light of the recent tragic events at PDVSA's Amuay facility in Venezuela, Oil & Gas IQ looks at the
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The Norco Refinery Explosion |
Date: May 5, 1988
Location: Norco, Diamond County, Louisiana, USA
Casualties: 7 fatalities, 42 injured
Estimated cost: $ 706 million
Details: The explosion at this Shell-owned oil refinery occurred at 3:40 am on the morning of May 5th after gas escaped from a corroded pipe in one of the facility's catalytic cracking units and was ignited. The resulting major explosion hurled debris as much as eight kilometres away from the blast epicentre and was heard 40 kilometres away in the state capital, New Orleans.
Unfortunately, this was not the first deadly industrial accident centred around the Norco refinery. Some 15 years previously, a gas leak from a ruptured pipeline was ignited by a spark from a local resident's lawnmower, killing two people.
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Contributor:
Asdza Nadleehe |
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Agree some more research required to make this definintive, start by reviewing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industrial_disasters
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Interesting, but I don't understand: I was at Pasadena in 1989 23 dead; Feyzin 1966 18 killed; worst refinery accident was in India Visakhapatnam? 50+ dead etc etc
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