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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 ...
A cake bomb exploded inside of a house. [255] [256] 7 January 2025 Cuba: Melones, Holguín Province: 13 Unknown Explosion at an ammunition depot that killed soldiers and displaced 1,200 residents. [257] 11 January 2025 Yemen: Az Zahir District, Al Bayda Governorate: 40 74 Al-Bayda gas station explosion: Explosion at a petrol station. [258] 11 ...
The bomb is discovered by security guard Richard Jewell who raises an alert. One person is killed and 111 others are wounded in the explosion. Rudolph escapes and becomes a fugitive for 10 years. Rudolph's bomb is intended to force the cancellation of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia due to his outrage over legal abortion. Eric ...
Attack on Pearl Harbor; Part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II: Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia.
Pemex was blamed for a series of 1992 gas explosions in Guadalajara. [52] On September 19, 2012, an explosion at the Pemex gas plant in Reynosa, Tamaulipas killed 30 and injured 46 people. Pemex Director Juan Jose Suarez said that there was "no evidence that it was a deliberate incident, or some kind of attack". [53] [54] [55]
Throughout 2010, drug-related conflicts had killed 12,456 people. In 2008, Pemex reported 9.3 billion pesos ($750 million USD) of oil lost to thieves. [1] Previously, close to sixty illegal tapping incidents occurred near the explosion site due to thieves stealing the oil. Much of the stolen oil is often trafficked to the United States. [6]
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 ...
Investigators suspect that several officials within Pemex are involved in facilitating the operations of these criminal groups. [5] Complicity includes activities such as employees sharing the exact time when the fuel will flow through the pipelines, the maps of the pipelines, and how to successfully perforate them.