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The Tulsa Fire Department responded to an explosion at the statewide manufacturing plant earlier today. Smoke is still visible. Crews battle large fire in Tulsa after explosion near petroleum tank ...
As of 11:20 a.m. local time, the Tulsa Fire Department was asking people to avoid the area. Fire spokesperson Andrew Little said the fire is located at Royal, a manufacturing business, ...
The first petroleum refinery in Tulsa, built by Texaco, went onstream in 1910 in West Tulsa, across the Arkansas River from Tulsa. Texaco continued to operate the plant until 1983, when the facility was sold to Sinclair Oil Company. At the time the refinery was sold to Sinclair, the refinery capacity was rated at 50,000 barrels (7,900 m 3) per day.
On June 21, 2019, a damaging fire occurred at a 30,000 bpcd alkylation unit in Philadelphia. [33] The explosion of the alkylation unit triggered a massive fireball and caused nearby homes to shake. [34] A few days later, on June 26 the refinery complex announced it would cease operations and shut down. [35]
Two oil refineries operate in West Tulsa. Sunoco's Tulsa refinery opened in 1913, and is located adjacent to I-244 at the Arkansas River. A sale of this refinery to Holly Corp. of Dallas, Texas was announced, with a planned closing date of June 1, 2009. [2] The Sinclair Refinery (built in 1910 by Texaco) is located on Southwest Boulevard. [3]
Smoke was seen rising from a Louisiana refinery after a massive fire broke out in a crude oil tank. A three-mile-wide shelter-in-place order was issued on Saturday evening (June 3), after a crude ...
On April 26, 2018, an explosion and subsequent fire occurred at the Husky Energy Oil Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin.An initial explosion was reported at 10:00 AM and was extinguished close to noon, however a piece of debris had hit a storage tank containing asphalt, which ignited after spilling across the refinery, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the air.
Two workers died and another was injured after a fire broke out over the weekend at the biggest domestic refinery owned and operated by Mexico's state oil company Pemex, a company official said on ...