re: TPC Plant in Port Neches Explosion: Port Neches, Groves, and parts of Nederland Evacuated

Motiva is only 7 miles up the road I'm sure they're watching and praying just the same as all the other facilities in the area.

Events like this really put me on edge. Most of the time they pass with little significant damage outside of the gates. Theres always the chance of it leveling an entire city/industrial area and starting off a chain reaction of hellish proportions. Real tense.

This is a video from the initial explosion. Taken ~2 miles or less from the site. Coffee shops is gonna need new glass

Video from initial explosion

Those are butediene spheres. That's the area of the plant where they store the butediene.

Hopefully they are empty or isolated.
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Our plant in sulphur has shut down as of 9 this morning as tpc is where we get our nitrogen and butediene from.

Hope this shite gets fixed quickly. Still cant beleive no casualties or major injuries

If that is from 2 miles away how is everyone that was in the plant not deaf and concussed? frick working in those things.

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that is from 2 miles away how is everyone that was in the plant not deaf and concussed

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Got to wear that ppe baw

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The local government just said that the air is perfectly fine. That seems hard to believe when looking at how much smoke is billowing out of that place

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Winds blowing 20 out of the north so if anything, it’s being carried out to the gulf. Just watched the news conference and they said they have many air monitoring stations around the area.

We're so grateful for our chemical processing and petroleum based economy down here aren't we folks?

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Theres always the chance of it leveling an entire city/industrial area

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That would have to be a bizarre chain of events to cause that type of damage from a US refinery or chemical plant. US plants follow API recommended practices which include sections on blast radius design, relief valve / depressuring design requirements, mechanical integrity inspection practices / frequencies, etc. Environmental permits are tied to the requirement to adopt and comply with API design practices. As part of that compliance, plants maintain blast zone maps which dictate which buildings in the plant have to be blast resistant. It would be a design or compliance oversight for such a catastrophic series of events to occur that would result in a neighborhood being destroyed. The main concern after an event such as this is air quality. Just to note, not all types of industry fall under API design practices, just petro chemical plants and refineries.

A blast like that would have sent anyone within a 100 yard radius or so flying.

10 day evacuation? You have got to be kidding. Where did you hear that?