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2. Texas City refinery explosion - Wikipedia

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   Costs. Approximately $2.5 billion of liabilities for BP. The Texas City refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a flammable hydrocarbon vapor cloud ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery.

3. Galveston Bay Refinery - Wikipedia

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   Complexity index. 15.2. No. of employees. 1550. The Galveston Bay Refinery is an oil refinery located in the Texas City, Texas Industrial Complex on the edge of Galveston Bay. It is the largest oil refinery in North America with a capacity 631,000 barrels per day [1] and has been owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum Corporation since 2013.

4. Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia

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   June. June 1 – Oil began washing up on the beaches of Gulf Islands National Seashore. [88] June 4 – Tar balls arrive on beaches in Pensacola, Florida. [89] June 5 – Obama makes third trip to Louisiana since the disaster began, visits Grand Isle, Louisiana for the second time in two weeks.

5. BP Oil Spill Creates a Wave of New Jobs, Takes Others Under - AOL

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   Those parishes provide 14,980 tourism-related jobs that add up to a payroll of $238 million, according to Jim Hutchinson, assistant secretary of the Louisiana Tourism & Cultural Department.

6. Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia

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   Most are owned locally, under contract to buy BP fuel. [ 62] The Deepwater Horizon oil spill inspired new protests against all off-shore oil drilling, including the Greenpeace protest where activists painted "No Arctic Drilling" with spilled BP oil on the side of a ship in the Gulf en route to drill in the Arctic.

7. Half a million Houston-area homes and businesses still won't ...

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   July 11, 2024 at 6:12 PM. HOUSTON (AP) — About half a million Houston-area homes and businesses will still be without electricity next week, the city's largest utility said Thursday, stoking the ...