Montana oil refinery explosion

[ksokie]

ExxonMobil oil refinery in Montana rocked by explosion

A large explosion rocked an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Montana on Saturday night, sparking a massive blaze at the site, reports said. The blast happened

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[Maggot]

ExxonMobil oil refinery in Montana rocked by explosion

A large explosion rocked an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Montana on Saturday night, sparking a massive blaze at the site, reports said. The blast happened

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Trump did it.

Gas goes up $00.37p/gal.

 

[Eli17L]

Odds Rusian hackers caused it?

 

[10ring'r]

It just keeps getting better and better. Mac

 

[camocorvette]

 

[Jgunner]

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[EddieNFL]

ELF

 

[Hobo Hilton]

The term used frequently in the XOM world is :.... "Run to failure".... You can go into any American oil refinery (regardless of who owns it) and it will not take an experienced hand long to identify pipe, valves, fittings and process equipment that has been running 24 hours a day for the past 50 years...
The "environmentalist" have worked hard to bring the USA to it's knees.... The infrastructure is crumbling... Nothing new...

 

[chevy_man]

They've needed to shut down and fully rebuild that refinery for a long time now. They're constantly having minor maintenance shut-downs already.

 

[david walter]

It’ll be on CNN tonight as a Russian missile strike in “the heart of a city in Ukraine.”

 

[7.62willdo]

The term used frequently in the XOM world is :.... "Run to failure".... You can go into any American oil refinery (regardless of who owns it) and it will not take an experienced hand long to identify pipe, valves, fittings and process equipment that has been running 24 hours a day for the past 50 years...
The "environmentalist" have worked hard to bring the USA to it's knees.... The infrastructure is crumbling... Nothing new...

We had a charge pump on our DCU that had a swastika on it, it had been running since 1940 with a few very short breaks,

 

[acudaowner]

shit happens

 

[Hobo Hilton]

Good video. This is one of the reasons LNG Terminials are no longer located on inland waterways.... Although the ships probably occasionally get into the river's in other parts of the world.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

shit happens

If that top one was the oxidizer plant outside of Henderson.... that was a hell of a blast. The forensics afterwards were pretty amazing, too.

Sirhr

 

[UKDslayer]

It’ll be on CNN tonight as a Russian missile strike in “the heart of a city in Ukraine.”

I just saw Newsmaxx calling a clip of the Montana refinery fire as "Chernobyl exclusion zone" fire.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

The term used frequently in the XOM world is :.... "Run to failure".... You can go into any American oil refinery (regardless of who owns it) and it will not take an experienced hand long to identify pipe, valves, fittings and process equipment that has been running 24 hours a day for the past 50 years...
The "environmentalist" have worked hard to bring the USA to it's knees.... The infrastructure is crumbling... Nothing new...

Also have to accept the fact that managers come along and are not willing to make any repairs that will marginalize the plants end of year profits. It is all about stock value, profit based bonuses, etc. The managers just have to keep it running at max profit until they retire. Then it is the next managers problem.
I worked at a refinery starting about 2000. They had done a turnaround shortly before I got there. Co workers talked about valves that were replaced during the turn around that literally had Nazi Swastikas stamped on them. I assume they had been in service prior to WWII. That was in a refinery that at the time was perceived as the safest oil company to be employed by.
Later I went to research. Research did some very dangerous projects, but the equipment was always brand new and budgets were huge if not open ended.