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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.
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 ...
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. [ 6 ] Illegally extracting, possessing, or safeguarding petrochemicals from pipelines, vehicles, equipment, or installations is a federal crime in Mexico and is ...
Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion: 17 April 2013 United States: West: 15 160 / 200 West Fertilizer Company explosion: 29 April 2013 Czech Republic: Prague: 0 43 2013 Prague explosion: 7 May 2013 Mexico: Ecatepec de Morelos: 27 36 2013 Ecatepec de Morelos gas tanker explosion: 25 May 2013 Pakistan: Punjab: 18 7 2013 Pakistan gas bus explosion: 31 ...
An aerial map of the Conway Bombing and Gunnery Range sites and the projects undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to identify potential risks and clean-up the WWII era range.
Target at Camp Kearny after bombardment by shrapnel; World War I era. The camp was established by the Army in 1917 on 12,721 acres (51.48 km 2) of land on a mesa north of San Diego.
Operators of sets that were sent to the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Hawaii and other strategic locations were all gathered for an air defense school at Mitchel Field, New York in April 1941. The school was the culmination of efforts begun in 1940, when the War Department created the Air Defense Command headed by Brig. Gen. James E. Chaney.
The Pemex Executive Tower (Spanish: Torre Ejecutiva Pemex) is an office skyscraper in Mexico City. The 211-metre (692 ft) international style tower was built between 1979 and 1984. Since the building's opening, it has been occupied by state-owned Pemex , one of the largest petroleum companies in the world.