-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from: http://pub3.ezboard.com/fdownstreamventurespetroleummarkets.showMessage?topicI D=279.topic Click Here: <A HREF="http://pub3.ezboard.com/fdownstreamventurespetroleummarkets.showMessage? topicID=279.topic">History of Petro. Plant fires & explosions 199…</A> ----- [ Downstream Ventures ] [ Petroleum Markets ] Author Comment meg Unregistered User (1/23/00 1:43:18 am) Reply History of Petro. Plant fires & explosions 1990-2000; amazing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINALLY FROM SHERI NAKKEN SITE Many of us have been very concerned and trying to research thisissue... Finally someone compiled a list.... http://www.justpeace.org/explosions.htm FACTORY, GENERATING PLANT, PIPELINE EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES Summary - 1990 - 3 reports 1991 - 1 report 1992 - 1 report 1993 - 1 report 1994 - 1 report 1995 - 2 reports 1996 - 6 reports 1997 - 5 reports 1998 - 29 reports 1999 - 90 reports 2000 - As of TODAY there have been 64 reports since 1/1/2000!!!!!! See below for listing of EVERY report.... Pre 1998 ... 1998 ... 1999 I first started thinking about electrical generating plant explosions when one blew up in my neighborhood in February 1999. Well, it wasn't right in the neighborhood, but close by. I was involved with an urban ministry that took trucks out three nights a week to visit homeless people who were not living in shelters. There were two groups of homeless people living in pallet houses in the large open fields that surrounded this plant (which was about 3 miles from the neighborhood in which I lived). I drove by it every week on our delivery route. Late one night, the windows rattled and there was a loud boom of an explosion destroying 15% of the generating capacity of Kansas City Power and Light. I moved out of Kansas City in April, so I don't know if they've been experiencing summer blackouts as a result. More recently, this subject came up as a discussion thread on the Time Bomb/Yourdon list and I started exchanging some private email with others about this. There seems to be a feeling that beginning with the fall of 1998, there has been an increase in such incidents. So I have started doing web searches of newspaper archives, others have contributed information in the thread found on government and industry publication sites, and I have received some private email. Below is the list as of July 21, 1998. I have some info on 1998 explosions that I haven't sorted through yet to add to the list. What does this mean? Too early to tell, but what I'm concerned about is the possibility that this is the "leading edge" of year 2000 disruptions degrading the infrasructure. Explosions and fires can happen at any time, and for many different reasons, and I am not saying that all of the events listed below are y2k related. So research will continue, and others may be doing some math/probability calculations on them. This page will be updated as new information comes available. Most of the ones I have found have some info about my source and any info I had about the effects or whys of the event. The others were taken from lists compiled and posted in the time bomb 2000 forum. Problems prior to Y2K Link 1990 - 3 reports 8/13/90 California Carson Arco 8/24/90 California Shell 9/28/90 California Bakersfield San Joaquin Refinery broken seal on vacuum tower pump 1991 - 1 report 8/8/91 California Wilmington Unocal crude oil spill 1992 - 1 report 10/8/92 California Wilmington Texaco worn pipe 1993 - 1 report 9/25/93 California Santa Fe Springs 1994 - 1 report 12/1/94 California Torrance 1995 - 2 reports 6/1/95 California Rodeo Unocal 10/16/95 Pennsylvania Rouseville Pennzoil 1996 - 6 reports 1996, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Exxon Refinery explosion and chemical leak (private email) 4/11/96 Michigan Detroit Marathon 5/17/96 California Rodeo Unocal 10/19/96 Illinois Blue Island Clark Oil 11/11/96 California Los Angeles Texaco hydrotreater 1996, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Exxon Refinery explosion and chemical leak 1997 - 5 reports 1/22/97 California Martinez Tosco 5/13/97 Texas Corpus Christi 5/16/97 Minnesota St. Paul Park Ashland 6/22/97 Texas Houston Shell 11/8/97 Minnesota Rosemount Koch 1998 - 29 reports 1998 TOP March 4, 1998, Louisiana, Pitkin, Sonat oil separation facility March 27, 1998 Louisiana, Hanville, Union Carbide plant April 8, 1998, New Jersey, Paterson, Morton Specialty Chemical company, explosion July 2, 1998, Alaska, Homer, ammonia leak and explosion at a seafood processing plant, 7/4/98 Illinois Roxana airborne oil spray release 7/13/98 Oklahoma Ardmore fluid catalytic cracking unit fire July 15, 1998, Illinois, Commonwealth Edison, fire in coal fired electrical plant 7/23/98 Texas Texas City out of service rpu explosion July 28, 1998 Indiana Hammond Southern Energy generating plant (allegedly coal dust) 7/29/98 California Martinez smoky fire, crude oil unit 8/3/98 California Rodeo gas leak forced shut down August 19, 1998, California, Carson, Arco Oil Refinery, (explosion during welding) August 21, 1998, Ohio, Ironton, Allied Signal coal tar plant, one dead 8/24/98 Minnesota St. Paul Park Marathon-Ashland oil refinery 8/25/98 California Martinez Tosco oil refinery August 27, 1998, Missouri, Joplin, incinerator explosion, 1 killed, 2 injured, September 3, 1998, Oklahoma, Springer, two men are killed while repairing a pipeline (frozen to death by liquid nitrogen) September 25, 1998 Australia Victoria, Esso Longford, gas plant explosions September 28, 1998, Sioux Falls, SD, Woods Equipment Manufacturer, paint thinner reclaiming machine explodes when turned on, one killed 10/8/98 California Carson corp explosion & fire October 13, 1998, Maryland, Baltimore, Condea Vista Company, chemical plant explosion, benzene and hydrochloric acid released, nearby residents ordered to stay indoors 10/16/98 Pennsylvania Trainer Tosco jet fuel tank 10/18/98 Montana Laurel pipeline carrying diesel in oil refinery ruptures, explosion & fire 10/23/98 North Dakota Mandan crude oil unit fire October 24, 1998, gas well explosion kills 7, Louisiana, Bryceland, Sonat Exploration Company, (close to Shreveport) 11/23/98 Texas Pasadena 11/25/98 Washington Anacortes Equilon Puget Sound "coker" 12/11/98 Pennsylvania Trainer Tosco burning truck spread to oil pipeline 12/15/98 Texas Corpus Christi 1999 - 90 reports January 2, 1999, Pennsylvania, West Chester, fire and explosions at Sartomer Co. chemical plant forces evacuations, January 3, 1999, Virginia, Wytheville, explosion at natural gas substation, 1500 customers lose service, visible 20 miles away, house and business destroyed. Roanoke times. 1/4/99 Ohio Oregon fire 1/5/99 Illinois Chicago HS release January 5 1999, Minnesota, transformer explosion at Prairie Island nuclear power station affects plant operations, caused one reactor to shut down. 1/9/99 California Southgate fire & explosion January 10, 1999, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, ABERDEEN AMERICAN NEWS, natural gas explosion in the base's environmental plant. January 12, 1999, Florida, Marieville, explosion at bolt-making plant kills 2 workers, THE MIAMI HERALD, Infasco corp. 1/13/99 Arkansas Smackover Cross Oil Naptha Valve, 3 deaths January 14, 1999 Duluth, Potlatch Corp strandboard plant, propane-fired pollution control device exploision, DULUTH NEWS-TRIBUNE January 21, 1999, state ? Columbus, machine explodes, kills worker, East Central Wax Co. LEDGER-ENQUIRER January 22 (?) 1999, Alabama, Bridgeport, natural gas line explosion, 3 killed, dozens of businesses damaged. LEDGER-ENQUIRER January 26, 1999, California, Long Beach, "plant explosion," PRESS-TELEGRAM, "gas may have ignited boxes". January 27, 1999 Canada, British Columbia, Taylor, Solex Gas Liquids Plant Explosion (caused by accidental gas leak) February 1, 1999 Michigan, Dearborn, power plant at Ford Rouge plant explodes, several workers killed, Ford manufacturing system thrown into disarray. February 7, 1999, Canada, Alberta, natural gas pipeline explosion, creates mushroom cloud seen 62 miles away. The Arizona Republic. 02/09/99, California, Dixon, liquid fertilizer tank explosion, one killed, two injured, CONTRA COSTA TIMES February 11, 1999, California, Hollister, explosion at explosive manufacturer, 1 death Published on 03/05/99, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS February 17, 1999, Missouri, Kansas City, power plant explodes. 02/19/99, Indiana, FORT WAYNE, rail car explosion at cement plant, Journal Gazette February 19, 1999 Pennsylvania, Allentown, Concept Sciences plant, explosion during distillation of hydroxylamine, 5 killed, 14 injured February 23, 1999, Ohio, Dayton, Miami Valley Paper Company, explosion, fire, orange die leak (3 incidents in one day) 2/24/99 California Martinez Tosco refinery 2/24/99 Indiana Lamont crude oil unit fire February 24, 1999, Miami Florida, Transformer fire (near I595 and US 441) February 26, 1999, California, San Bernardino County, STORAGE TANK BLAZE CAUSES EVACUATION OF POWER PLANT: SOLAR FACILITY: LIQUID EXPLODES; AIR TRAFFIC HAS TO BE RE-ROUTED. February 26, 1999, Massachusetts, Springfield, Jahn Foundry, one killed, 11 injured. 3/4/99 Washington Anacortes explosion in polymerization unit Published on 03/08/99, Michigan, Plainwell, natural gas line explosion THE JOURNAL GAZETTE GAS PIPELINE BLAST LIGHTS MICHIGAN SKY PLAINWELL, Mich. -- March 25, 1999, Boston Globe, analysts say the Ukraine is so broke it has stopped funding most nuclear reactor safety maintenance. 3/25/99 California Richmond Chevron refinery; due to a glitch, warning phone calls relating to the explosion went to Martinez instead of the nearer neighbors in Richmond. March 27, 1999, explosion in magnesium dust collection system, Olney Bicycle parts plant, Evansville Courier and Pres (Illinois), Weinmann Inc. March 29, 1999, Michigan, Osseo, Professional Fireworks Company, 4 dead (had a previous explosion 12-98, 7 deaths, business closed down after this last explosion)(. 4/2/99 California Torrance isobutane leak April 6, 1999, Ohio, East Akron, Forest Technical Corp, tank explosion (wax vat) April 8, 1999, Tampa, Florida, TECO Energy Company power plant explosion (hydrogen leak), 3 killed, 49 injured, 39 hospitalized (Miami Herald, eventually blamed on worker) On April 9, 1999, article appeared in the Bradenton (Florida) Herald, stating that almost all power plants use hydrogen to cool their generators. . . "It must be used in a closed system." I amreminded of the Hindenburg (not an explosion story, just a reminder.) April 13, 1999, South Carolina, Orangeburg, chemical plant explosion, 1 killed, 1 seriously injured, The State April 14, 1999, Arizona, Tempe, Heraeus Amersil, hydrogen supply line explosion, Arizona Republic April 14, 1999, Tampa, Florida, power plant explosion (hydrogen leak), 2 killed (? same as April 8 above?) 4/14/99 Washington Anacortes Equilon Puget Sound acid leak April 15, 1999, Indiana, Notre Dame, fire and explosion in power plant of Notre Dame University, 2 injured. April 15, 1999, Tennessee, Toone, Kilgore Operations Plant explosion (munitions) 4/19/99 Indiana Whiting jet fuel cracking unit April 20, 1999, Indiana, Gary, BP Amoco explosion and fire, leaking jet fuel in crude refining unit, Post Tribune April 21, 1999, Schuykill County, Pennsylvania, Copperhead Chemical Co., explosion in mixing and packing section, pharmaceutical manufacturer, 2 killed April 23, 1999, Illinois, Evansville (?), Rubber shredding facility explosion, 100 firefighters summoned, Evansville Courier Press 4/25/99 Oklahoma Tulsa coker restart April-May 1999 (date uncertain), Holly Power Plant, Austin, Texas, fire. 5/7/99 Texas Pasadena Lyondell-Citgo coker May 12, 1999, Alabama, Decatur, Daikin America chemical plant explosion, 3 dead, Ledger Enquirer May 13, 1999 Korea Ulsan refinery fire (world's largest refinery) May 14, 1999, Coastal Corp refinery explosion, 10 injured, Greensboro News Record, location ? 5/14/99 Texas Corpus Christi Coast gasoline production unit May 18, 1999, South Carolina, Cardenal Chemical Company, fire, The State May 24, 1999, Ahaz, Iran, gas pipeline explosion (during a repair), 70 injured, San Jose Mercury June 1, 1999, Pennsylvania, Conway (and elsewhere) rail problems/congestion/missing late loads, unknown destinations begin as a result of computer problems incident to the merger of Conrail and Norfolk Southern railroads. June 10, 1999. Washington, Bellingham, 250,000 gallons gasoline leak into creek, explode, kill 3 young people, could have been much worse, computer failure 6/14/99 Tennessee Memphis leak from storage tank 6/23/99 California Torrance Mobil 6/24/99 Texas Houston July 1, 1999, Missouri, Jackson County (KC), Missouri Public Service substation explodes. July ? 1999, Louisiana, Convent, Zeno chemical plant fire and explosion (private email) July 5, 1999 Louisiana, Grammercy alumina plant explosion (24 workers injured) Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company July 6, 1999, California, Los Angeles, produce district warehouse explosion, 1 killed July 7, 1999, DC, Washington, Office of Pipeline Safety issues advisory to pipeline operators advising them to check computer systems in the wake of the computer problems that caused the Bellingham explosion. July 6-7, 1999, blackouts in New York City, (not explosion related, just a footnote.) July 7, 1999, Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces that 1/3 of active nuclear power plants in the US are not y2k compliant at this time. July 9, 1999, Texas, Panola County, near Beckville, 30 inch natural gas pipeline explosion and fire (reported in Shreveport media, fire was 400 yards long and hundreds of feet in the air) 7/10/99 California Chevron July 11, 1999, Alaska, whistleblowers report that the Alaskan Pipeline is in imminent danger of an explosion or other accident causing damage "much worse" than the Exxon Valdez incident. July 12, 1999, Rio Rancho NM y2k sewer problem July 12, 99 Japan, Fukui Prefecture, radiation leak (250X safety limit) July 13, 1999, North Sea, Britannia gas field, production is halted due to a gas leak. July 14, 1999, President Clinton establishes National Infrastructure Assurance Council, July 14, 1999, Chemical reaction container overheats, sends 25 to hospital, Azusa, California July 15, 1999, CNN reports "somber faces" and bad news at aSenate hearing on y2k readiness of cities. July 16, 1999, 100,000 phone lines knocked out by fire in Toronto, has domino effect as far away as Vancouver. July 16(?), 99, California Richmond Chevron (2nd at 03-25-99 plant incident) July 16, 1999, Maryland, Baltimore, Bethlehem Steel (explosion during a spraying/coating operation) (Baltimore Sun) July 17, 1999, Phone service lost in parts of Canada due to fire. July 17, 1999, Pennsylvania, Harleysville, metal manufacturing facility, Philadelphia Inquirer July 20, 1999, Chemical spill, Iowa City, Iowa Sometime around July 19-20, explosion in Oolagah, Oklahoma, perhaps a transformer fire at a generating plant (still accumulating details on this one). Sometime around "week before July 29th", 1999, Board of Public Utilities Nearman Power Plant in Kansas City, Kansas, conveyor fire takes plant out of operation. July 25, 1999, Cartagena, Colombia, transformer/generator explosion, six killed, "during routine maintenance." July 26, 1999 Sibbald crude oil production valley, Arcadia Valley, Alberta, Canada, explosion and fire, one worker killed July 28, 1999, Mobile Oil Company refinery explosion, Torrance, California August 5, 1999, Bulgarian power plant "unexpectedly" shuts down, blackout throughout Kosovo. August 9, 1999, Hub Oil Company, Alberta, Canada, oil recycling plant, explosion and fire. August 9, 1999, Citgo Refinery, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1 worker killed, August 10, 1999, Chevron Gas Plant, Wortham, Texas August 10, 1999, gas pipeline explosion, Austin, Texas *****2000 - 64 REPORTS TO DATE****** Problems in the Petroleum Industry This list was created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] based on data availableon the web. Wherever possible I've tried to reference the data source so it can be verified.It will be maintained on a best-effort basis, time permitting. If this data was helpful and you wish to make a contribution to help maintain this website, please send it to: Marcia Peters, 712 Lochgarton Ln., Raleigh, NC 27614. Patrons are very much appreciated. Copyright (C) 2000 Marcia L. Peters, all rights reserved. Feel free tolink this page. -------------------------------------------------------------------- marc1a Global user (1/23/00 9:55:42 am) Reply Re: added link ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's a link to my table of Petroleum Industry Problems http://www.nckodokan.com/charts/crude.html Unfortunately, Glitch Central has my list categorized as "Nuclear Plant Outages" which it isn't. I wrote to their web master and asked him to correct it, but 12 hours later no correction has been made. ilander Unregistered User (1/23/00 2:04:37 pm) Reply History of Petro. Plant fires & explosions 1990-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Totally outstanding job! I have been hoping someone would do this to see if there is a real correlation between date/time and the current oil crisis. This studdy definately shows a trend. If by chance this trend has a symetric beginning-peak and peak-ending, then we are certainly in for an extended period of oil related problems, expecially since a peak in the problems is not yet apparent. James Unregistered User (1/24/00 11:21:58 am) Reply Reporting Rules ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meg, Nice summary. Quick question: Have the reporting rules changed any during this time frame (1990-1997 show single digits, 1998-1999 show a vast increase). What I'm wondering is that perhaps there has been a change in how incidents are reported, which could change the numbers of incidents being reported. I actually hope this is the case, but somehow I doubt it. James Meatloaf Unregistered User (1/24/00 11:58:18 am) Reply I've worked at power plants since the 70's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't know how many plants there are in the US but it is a large number. I'm sure there are a lot more instances than have been listed. Because of the rotational speed of the generator, water can not be used for cooling because the added mass of the water would destroy the rotor. Instead hydrogen gas is commonly used. It's not unknown for a hydrogen leak to result in an explosion. It's not Y2K related. Transformers as well, especially the large ones, require a cooling medium. An oil is used that when an internal fault occurs causes an explosion and fire. Large "main" transformers at power plants are surrounded by a fire suppression system. Again there's no Y2K effect here simply a potentially hazardous situation that's addressed by safety measures. At this point, I doubt that the evidence definitely points to emerging Y2K problems simply because I doubt that the compilation is anywhere near complete based on my knowledge of actual events. JGolter Unregistered User (1/24/00 12:33:37 pm) Reply Let's divide up the remaining work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Marcia, I saw your site with the incident table when I logged on to the net late last night and was impressed with the work you have done so far. Today, I am getting an access denied message when I try logging on again. Your email address was on the site, and I had planned on sending you a message about the data table. Since I didn't copy your address, I'll have to post it here in public. I have started compiling a similar table of incidents. My list however is restricted to refinery outages and to reports on the Bloomberg database. I chose these restrictions in order to try to maintain the best possible consistency across time. The objections that other posters have raised about the validity of the conclusion drawn so far are valid. We don't know if the increase in recent accidents in our tables is because there are more accidents or because we are better able to find recent accident reports. That is why I felt that sticking to one database that keeps its historical files (forever?) would be a more valid approach. The Bloomberg data on a dedicated Bloomberg terminal goes back to September of 1997, so that should be enough time to determine if anomalies are now taking place. The drawback with using the Bloomberg terminal is that it is a dedicated system, so I can only handwrite the data and later enter it into a spreadsheet. It takes me about one hour for every month, and so far I have only worked backwards from the present to September '99. Tough sledding. What I would like to do, if you are still building up the table, is divide the remaining months between us and anyone else who is able to assist so that we are not duplicating each other's work. If this interests you, please send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your phone number. I can then call you on Tuesday so that we can agree on what data elements to collect and which months each of us should tackle. I look forward to hearing from you. Jay Golter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email this to a friend Topic Commands (Moderator only) Jump to: - Downstream Ventures - Petroleum Markets - CREATE YOUR OWN FREE MESSAGE BOARD CREATE A FREE POLL NOW ezboard™ Ver. 5.071 © Copyright 1998, 1999 ezboard, Inc. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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