Explosions followed by fire ripped through a fuel storage depot in Buncefield, England, located just 40 km north of London. The facility was storing 150,000 t of fuel (petrol, diesel fuel and kerosene) at the time of the accident. The[...]
In a storage area of a refinery, a tank buckled at 6:35 pm, causing 37,000 m³ of crude oil to pour out like a wave. In less than 15 min, the site's 4-hectare retention basin was covered 1 m deep[...]
In a plant operating 6 metal surface treatment lines (total bath volume: 196 m³), an operator observed around 8:15 pm that 1,000 liters of cyanide alkaline copper had spilled into a concrete retention basin after an output pipe detachment on[...]
In a refinery, 10 to 20 t of gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons were released in 5 minutes starting at 4.46 pm by 3 of the 5 valves of the atmospheric distillation unit during restart operations.At 6 pm, the firemen notified[...]
A leak detected late on a pipeline (10'', 2 bar) serving a port petrochemical site along the Juliana canal was the caused 3 000 m³ (2500 tonnes) of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) to be released thus polluting soil and[...]
In the bitumen storage and loading/unloading unit at a refinery, a 12-m high tank installed on the site for 30 years featuring a floating roof, a capacity of 1,200 m3 and a heating coil, suddenly ruptured at the level of[...]
Analyses carried out on the residual water at the discharge point of a waste water treatment plant at a chemical plant manufacturing a basic organic product revealed that the thresholds of the standards stipulated by prefectural order had been significantly[...]
A spill of 328 metric tons of heavy fuel oil happened in an Oil Terminal during the discharge of the product from a ship vessel to a storage tank. At 10.30 p.m. the discharge to storage tank No 375 was[...]
During efforts since the previous day to locate the source of a pressure drop on the cyclohexane supply line of an olone production facility, a leak of this substance was discovered at a chemical site. The substance, used in large[...]
At a chemical plant, a tank containing a mix of toluene-2,6-diisocyanate (TDI) / tars with a high boiling point increased in pressure and exploded around 7:40 pm. The cloud ignited 5 min later; afterwards, the fire was fed by 20[...]
