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Liquefied gas Horton tanks similar to the six spherical tanks involved in the San Juanico disaster LPG bullet tanks. There were 48 tanks of this type in the Pemex plant. Note how this modern installation incorporates some of the lessons learned from San Juanico: an uncongested, well ventilated area, with the horizontal tanks in a parallel cluster configuration, which minimizes the effects of ...
Site after explosion. An evacuation of the area had been begun in the minutes following the explosion. [6] In the hours after the blast, about 30 people were reported to be trapped in debris, [6] and searches continued into the next day, as Pemex CEO Emilio Lozoya said there were indications that some people remained under the rubble.
Location Dead Injured Details 7 February 2000 Nigeria: Ogwe, Abia State: 17 Unknown A pipeline explosion killed 17. [18] 11 March 2000 Ukraine: Luhansk: 81 8 Methane gas explosion at a coal mine. [19] 13 March 2000 China: Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province: 33 10 Explosion at a fireworks factory. [19] 20 March 2000 Nigeria: Isioma, Abia State: 50 Unknown
The bomb failed to explode and the transmission line was not badly damaged. [75] [76] The Hanford Engineer Works was the only U.S. nuclear facility to come under enemy attack. [77] Hanford provided the plutonium for the bomb used in the 1945 Trinity nuclear test. [78] Throughout this period, the Manhattan Project maintained a top-secret ...
Fuel theft from pipelines owned by Pemex, the state oil company, has been a long-term problem in Mexico. [2] [3] The problem worsened in the 2010s as organized crime groups in Mexico began including gasoline theft as part of their main streams of revenue.
Those killed in the bombing were 46-year-old Leonard Hsu of Lomita, 64-year-old Harper Glass of Inglewood, and 53-year-old Robert Moncur of New Zealand. [6] [7] Kurbegovic was nicknamed "The Alphabet Bomber" because of his alleged plan to attack places in an order that would make an anagram of Aliens of America. He later disputed this and ...
Kab 101 is a Sea Pony-type minimum-facilities light-production oil platform operated by Mexican state-owned oil company PEMEX, and installed about 26 kilometres (16 mi) off the coast of Tabasco, near the port of Dos Bocas [], in 1994.
A series of ten explosions took place on April 22, 1992, in the downtown district of Analco Colonia Atlas in Guadalajara city, Jalisco state, Mexico. Numerous gasoline explosions in the sewer system and fires over four hours destroyed 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) of streets. [1]