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Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...
Here, a concrete transport truck is feeding concrete to a concrete pumper, which is pumping it to where a slab is being poured. Pumping concrete into aluminium concrete formwork in Mexico. A concrete pump is a machine used for transferring liquid concrete by pumping. There are different types of concrete pumps.
Texas City is home to the Texas City Dike, a man-made breakwater built of tumbled granite blocks in the 1930s, that was originally designed to protect the lower Houston Ship Channel from silting. The dike, famous among locals as being "the world's longest man-made fishing pier ", extends roughly 5.2 mi (8 km) to the southeast into the mouth of ...
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
The Davison Home is a Victorian structure built between 1895 and 1897 by Frank B. Davison (1855-1935), a pioneer of Texas City, Texas, and his wife Florence Grace Haven.It is currently operated as a museum by the Texas City Museum with the help of the Texas City Historical Association in the city originally known as Shoal Point.
Arcoaire were made by ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company.) Both Comfortmaker and Arcoaire were parts of the SnyderGeneral Corporation (which was based in Dallas, Texas but had its residential and light commercial operations in Red Bud, Illinois and Hutchins, Texas) until in 1991 they sold their Residential Operations to Inter-City Products ...
Texas City explosion may refer to: Texas City disaster (1947), an industrial accident; Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire
Putzmeister was founded by Karl Schlecht in 1958. [3] Schlecht designed a mortar machine based on his diploma thesis at the University of Stuttgart. [4]In 1986, Putzmeister 52Z's were used in the Chernobyl nuclear accident, pumping over 300,000 m 3 (390,000 cu yd) of concrete to entomb reactor number 4, setting a world record at the time for volume pumping.