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Explosion, Fire At Texas Refinery Plant
MIKE MORRIS and TOM FOWLER
Houston Chronicle
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Mont Belvieu and Chambers County emergency personnel have responded to an explosion and large fire at Enterprise Products oil and gas facility near Mont Belvieu, a small city 35 miles east of Houston.
Houston-based Enterprise is one of the country's largest shippers and processors of natural gas in, including 49,100 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines. (KHOU video/Chronicle image)
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No deaths or injuries are being reported after the explosion and fire which occurred shortly after noon. More than two hours later the fire was still burning.
Company spokesman Rick Rainey has not returned calls, but he told CNN that all the workers have been accounted for, except for one contractor who was seen leaving the area before the blast. The son of a supervisor at the facility told KTRK Houston that his father said all workers were accounted for.
The facility in Chambers County is a natural gas fractionation facility, where natural gas liquids are separated into different components before being put into storage or injected into pipelines. It has a capacity of about 305,000 barrels of natural gas liquids per day. Recently, it has become an important hub to oil and gas producers in South Texas’ Eagle Ford shale formation, where large quantities of natural gas liquids are being extracted and processed for usage by Gulf Coast petrochemical plants and other customers.
A preliminary search of Occupational Safety and Health Administration data does not find any incidents reported on this Enterprise facility. In June 2005 a worker was killed at an Enterprise facility in Mirando City in South Texas near Nuevo Laredo when there was an unexpected release of pressurized flammable material from a production compressor.
Houston-based Enterprise is one of the country's largest shippers and processors of natural gas in, including 49,100 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines.
Houston Chronicle
Reprinted with Permission
Mont Belvieu and Chambers County emergency personnel have responded to an explosion and large fire at Enterprise Products oil and gas facility near Mont Belvieu, a small city 35 miles east of Houston.
Houston-based Enterprise is one of the country's largest shippers and processors of natural gas in, including 49,100 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines. (KHOU video/Chronicle image)
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No deaths or injuries are being reported after the explosion and fire which occurred shortly after noon. More than two hours later the fire was still burning.
Company spokesman Rick Rainey has not returned calls, but he told CNN that all the workers have been accounted for, except for one contractor who was seen leaving the area before the blast. The son of a supervisor at the facility told KTRK Houston that his father said all workers were accounted for.
The facility in Chambers County is a natural gas fractionation facility, where natural gas liquids are separated into different components before being put into storage or injected into pipelines. It has a capacity of about 305,000 barrels of natural gas liquids per day. Recently, it has become an important hub to oil and gas producers in South Texas’ Eagle Ford shale formation, where large quantities of natural gas liquids are being extracted and processed for usage by Gulf Coast petrochemical plants and other customers.
A preliminary search of Occupational Safety and Health Administration data does not find any incidents reported on this Enterprise facility. In June 2005 a worker was killed at an Enterprise facility in Mirando City in South Texas near Nuevo Laredo when there was an unexpected release of pressurized flammable material from a production compressor.
Houston-based Enterprise is one of the country's largest shippers and processors of natural gas in, including 49,100 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines.
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At the height of the fire, the flame column was shooting from 700' to 1000' high. A pilot from another station had been within 1/2 mile of the flames before the FAA imposed a flight restriction, said he could feel the heat from the fire radiating inside the cockpit.
Amazingly, no reported injuries or deaths have been reported, although 1 contract worker is unaccounted for, but it is not known whether he was even on site.
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