An explosion set off a huge fire at Valero Energy Corp's 225,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Texas City, Texas, refinery on Thursday afternoon but the fire was quickly contained, according the City of ...

BP's Texas City plant stretches across 480 hectares and is made up of 30 refinery units. The plant processes about 435,000 barrels of crude oil per day and employs about 2,000 people.

Marathon Petroleum continued assessing damage on Friday to the shut residual hydrotreating unit (RHU) at its ...

2005 Refinery Explosion In Texas Killed 15, Injured 170. Over the past 18 months, Merritt's investigators found problems at Texas City just about everywhere they looked: antiquated equipment ...

Authorities responded to an explosion at the Valero refinery Thursday afternoon in Texas City.

The cause of the explosion at the Texas City refinery was not immediately known. Workers searched into the night through rubble for survivors or bodies, several hours after the 1.20pm blast yesterday.

Marathon's Texas City refinery [Photo: Marathon Petroleum Corporation]. Scott Higgins, a machinist and member of United Steelworkers Local 13-1 who was nearing retirement, died from his injuries ...

To remember the deadly event, the CSB has released a new report entitled “ The 20th Anniversary of the 2005 Fatal BP America Refinery Explosion in Texas City, TX - Lessons Learned and Improvements ...