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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 ...
An explosion occurred at a Taliban bomb-making class. Thirty militants (including six foreigners) were killed, and an unknown number were injured. [141] 23 February 2021 India: Chikkaballapur, Karnataka: 6 Unknown A truck loaded with blasting gelatin exploded. [142] 24 February 2021 Afghanistan: Uruzgan Province: 10 0
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]
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.
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.
By 1940, Mexico had an agreement with the American Sinclair Oil Corporation to sell crude oil to the U.S., and the full-scale war in Europe guaranteed that Mexican oil would have international customers. [8] PEMEX developed into one of the largest oil companies in the world and helped Mexico become the world's seventh-largest oil exporter. [9]
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
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]