NEED STATS ON REFINERY CLOSURES

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Some time ago, I saw stats posted here on worldwide oil refinery accidents/closures for the past several years. These stats showed a MASSIVE increase in such occurrances in 1999/early 2000, when in prior years you could count the incidents on one hand.

Since I've NEVER been able to search the archives properly (Grrrr...), could someone please repost this info. Any updates or additional stats would also be deeply appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), February 21, 2000

Answers

have a look at gary north's site, there is a link to some stats behind one of his posts under shipping and transportation

yes GN's site is still there

-- sir richard (richard.dale @unum,co.uk), February 21, 2000.


Hope this is what you are looking for. You can get an updated version for the site below. Diane

This from humanitarian.net: U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Note: The following incidents have not been necessarily ruled as direct results of Y2K problems, yet the seriousness risks associated with high hazard chemical plants presents a need for community & family preparedness.

2/7/2000 - Toulon, France Tunnel Fire in southern France Injures 17

2/6/2000 - 2:00 PM - Springfield, VT Spill at Electroplating Company Causes Evacuation, Closure of Main Street

2/6/2000 - 10:30 AM - Montville, CT Oil Truck Spills Load, Highway Closed 2/4/2000 - Belem, Brazil Barge with Nearly 500,000 Gallons of Oil Sinks in northern Brazil

2/4/2000 - 8:00 PM - Minneapolis, MN Hydrochloric Acid Spill at Printing Plant, Building Evacuated; 3-Alarm Haz Mat Response Declared

2/4/2000 - 10:00 AM - Sydney, Australia Fire Burns at Qenos Chemical Plant; Ethylene Producer Just Cooling and Protecting From Exposures

2/3/2000 - 11:00 AM - Washington, DC Hazardous Materials Scare Prompts Police To Close Part of U.S. Capitol

2/2/2000 - Buffalo, NY More Than 50 Sickened From Carbon Monoxide Leak at Bowling Alley

2/2/2000 - Brownsville, TX Toxic Spill Prompts Warning That Fish May be Unsafe to Eat

2/1/2000 - 10:45 AM - Bethel, NC Large Evacuation Area Reduced as Train Crews Begin Rebuilding Tracks

2/1/2000 - 11:04 AM - Salt Lake City, UT Two Unrelated Chemical Spills Prompt Evacuations, Road Closures

2/31/2000: - Baia Mare, Romania Hungary Blames Romania for Major Cyanide Spill; Municipal Water Systems Shut, Wildlife Killed

1/30/2000 - Desaguadero River, Bolivia Oil Spill in Andean River Killing Wildlife, Harming Indian Farmers

1/30/2000 - 10:40 PM - Fuji, Japan Acrylic Acid Spill Closes Japanese Expressway

1/29/2000 - 7:05 PM - Blue Island, IL Fire at Refinery is Second Accident Since Christmas Eve Explosion

1/29/2000 - 5:30 PM - Flora Vista, NM Gasoline Storage Tank Explodes; Kills One Teen, Injures Another

1/28/2000 - 7:15 PM - Lowell, MA Almost 12,000 Gallons of Gasoline Spilled When Tanker Overturns On Highway

1/28/2000: - 1:23 PM - Battle Creek, MI Teacher, Four Students Seriously Injured During Classroom Chemistry Experiment; 11 Others Hurt

1/27/2000: 5:15 AM - Sowa, Japan Chemical Factory Worker Killed, Another Injured When Acid Drum Explodes

1/27/2000: - Winchester, KY 24-inch Crude Oil Pipeline Ruptures in Kentucky; Cleanup Could Take Days or Weeks

1/26/2000 - Reno, NV Investigators Seek Clues Into Dumping of Several Gallons of Mercury

1/25/2000: - 12:00 PM - Saugus, MA Natural Gas Pipeline Fire Started by Downed Electrical Line

1/25/2000: - Minden, LA Explosion at Ammunition Plant Badly Burns Employee

1/24/2000: - 5:30 PM - East Helena, MT Fire at Lead Smelter Declared Out; Shelter-in-Place Order Lifted

1/24/2000 - 7:00 PM - Lock heath, United Kingdom Chemical Spill Threatens River and Spurs Major Alert

1/24/2000 - Stony Creek, Ontario, Canada Fire, Explosion at Lamination Plant Causes Evacuations of Homes, Businesses

1/23/2000: Masury, OH Propane Tanks Explode at Industrial Complex, Worker Seriously Injured; Damage Up to $500,000

1/23/2000: - 5:00 PM - Stroudsburg, PA Gas Leak Suspected Cause of Explosion That Extensively Damages Store, Showers Street with Debris

1/23/2000 - 11:30 AM - Cambridge, MA More Than 1,300 Harvard University Students Evacuated Due to Carbon Monoxide Fumes

1/23/2000 - Moscow, Russia Oxygen Tanks at Construction Site Explode, Two Injured

1/23/2000 - Platte City, MO Ten Killed in Fiery 24-Vehicle Pileup North of Kansas City; Fire Fueled by Hydrochloric Acid Leak

1/22/2000: - 7:00 PM - Long Beach, MS Chemical Drums Explode at Hot Tub, Spa Manufacturer; Factory Destroyed

1/22/2000 - 3:00 PM - Flemington, NJ Fire Chief and Patrolman Injured As Building Explodes

1/22/2000 - 3:00 AM - Claremont, CA Car Strikes Fuel Tanker, One Killed - Interstate Closed

1/21/2000 - Campeche Bay, Mexico Fire at Major Mexican Oil Field, Sixth Largest in World, But Production Not Affected

1/21/2000 - 3:45 AM - Flint, MI Propane Rail Tank Car Fire Burns Out; Major Explosion Averted

1/21/2000 - 1:00 AM - Fountain Valley, CA Fast-moving Fire in Plastics Factory Apparently Started by Chemical Reaction

1/21/2000 - Los Alamos, NM Hundreds of Gallons of Contaminated Water Spills from DoE Lab

1/21/2000 - 3:45 AM - Flint, MI Propane Rail Tank Car Burning; 1-mile Area Evacuated, 500,000 Gallons of Fuel Moved Out of Danger

1/21/2000 - Breckenridge, MN Spontaneous Combustion from Chemical Reaction Damages Movie Theater

1/20/2000 - Clermont-Ferrand, France French Firefighters Extinguish Huge Blaze at Tire Factory

1/19/2000 - 2:30 PM - Temple, TX Texas Plastics Plant Destroyed; Four Workers Injured

1/19/2000 - Garrison, ND Plumber Working in Hospital Injured When Welding Tank Explodes

1/19/2000 - Darien, WI More than 300 Evacuated After Natural Gas Leak

1/18/2000 - 1:30 PM - Chikkalsandra, India Blast at Indian Movie Studio Kills Three

1/18/2000 - 7:20 AM - Sulphur, LA Five Burned by Flash Fire at Gas Well

1/18/2000 - Shreveport, LA Two Injured, One Critically, After Chemical Explosion at Refinery

1/17/2000 - 8:30 AM - St. Paul, MN Dozen People Treated for Exposure to Industrial Liquid

1/16/2000 - 8:50 PM - Kiel, WI Several Hundred Evacuated After Train Derails, Leaks Methanol

1/16/2000 - Springfield, MO Man Killed, Two Auto Businesses Destroyed in Explosion

1/15/2000 - 5:30 PM - Kansas City, KS Federal Investigators Think Fireworks, Chemicals Caused Fatal Blast

1/15/2000 - Balatonfuzfo, Hungary Explosion Destroys Hungarian Gunpowder Plant, One Dies

1/14/2000 - 9:00 AM - Durham, NH Tractor-Trailer Overturns, but Sodium Hydroxide Cargo Remains Contained

1/14/2000 - Albany, NY State Workers Sent Home Following Chemical Spill

1/14/2000 - Dearborn, MI Spectacular, not Destructive Fire; Fifth Recent Incident at Dearborn Company

1/13/2000: - La Guaira, Venezuela Mudslides Cause Toxic Chemical Spill; Evacuations Ordered as International Cleanup Effort Starts

1/13/2000: - Lynn, MA Natural Gas Explosion at Potato Chip Factory Forces Evacuations

1/13/2000: - 10:00 PM - York, United Kingdom Forty-foot Fireball in Residential Street After Natural Gas Explosion

1/13/2000: - Bayport, TX Chemical Reaction at Plant Prompts Evacuation, Road Closure 1/13/2000: 10:45 AM - Tokyo, Japan Sodium Hydroxide Leaks at Japanese Chemical Plant

1/12/2000 - Govandi, India Four Killed As Balloon Seller's Gas Cylinder Explodes; 27 Injured. Official Response Criticized

1/12/2000 - 12:00 PM - Niles, IL Seven Workers Hurt in Blast at Metal Recycling Company; FourWorkers Critically Burned

1/12/2000 - 10:00 AM - Grand Chute, WI 30 Sent to Hospital When Ammonia Line Breaks at Food Plant

1/12/2000 - 9:00 AM - Akron, OH Evacuation Ends As Butadiene Spill Contained at Chemical Plant 1/12/2000 - 6:55 AM - Canton Township, MI Ammonia Line Leaks as Explosion and Fire Follow at Food Plant; Two Injured

1/11/2000 - 7:30 PM - Rangely, CO Natural Gas Line Explosion Forces Closure of State Highway

1/11/2000 - 2:40 PM - Compton, CA Explosion, Fire at Food Company Injures four

1/11/2000 - 6:45 AM - Mosier, OR Interstate 84 Closed After Wreck Causes Spill of Acid and Chlorine

1/10/2000 - 10:00 PM - London, United Kingdom Gas Explosion in London Store Injures Three

1/10/2000 - 9:30 AM - Richmond County, GA Non-Toxic Liquid Glass Spilled After Tanker Truck Overturns

1/10/2000 - Mantova, Italy Gas Explosion Collapses Two-Story Building in Italy, Four Killed

1/8/2000 - 1:00 PM - Cincinnati, OH Much of 365,000 Gallons of Liquid Nitrogen Released into Ohio River

1/8/2000 - 9:20 AM - Ventura, CA Man Killed, Two Injured at Oil Tool Plant Explosion

1/8/2000 - Buffalo, NY Three Homes Catch Fire After Gas Truck Pumps Load into a Kerosene Tank;

1/8/2000 - Wrightstown, WI Freight Train Strikes Truck Carrying Propane, Driver Killed, Residents Evacuated

1/7/2000 - 5:30 AM - Dearborn, MI Another Accident at Ford Rouge Facility (explosion,fire)

1/7/2000 - Portland, ME High School Evacuated When Unstable Chemicals Discovered in Classroom Lab

1/7/2000 - Anderson, IN Indiana's White River Again Contaminated, This Time by "Mysterious Foam"

1/6/2000 - 1:45 PM - Pasadena, TX, 2,800 Students, Faculty Evacuated as Construction Crew Hits Natural Gas Line

1/6/2000 - 11:30 AM - Amherst, NY Cleaning Solvent Spill at Hotel Creates Chlorine Gas, Three Sent to Hospital

1/6/2000 - 9:20 AM - Naples, FL Gasket Failure Causes Chlorine Leak at Water Plant

1/6/2000 - 9:10 AM - Corby, United Kingdom Forty Factory Workers Sent to Hospital When Cleaning Fluids Mistakenly Mixed

1/6/2000 - Point Comfort, TX Caustic Soda Spills from Pipeline into Gulf of Mexico

1/5/2000 - 3:00 PM - Columbus, OH Hundreds Evacuate VA Medical Clinic, Seven Taken to Hospital Due to Carbon Monoxide Leak

1/5/2000 - Davey, FL Anhydrous Ammonia Leak at Ice Plant; Nearby Resident Dies, Eight Workers Exposed

1/5/2000 - Upper Darby, PA Fire Destroys Chemical Plant; Firefighters Unsure of Chemicals Involved 1/2/2000 - 9:00 AM - Diamond Springs, CA Thermostat Apparently Malfunctions at Gold-Plating Facility; Fire, Evacuation Result 1/2/2000 - White Hall, AR, Worker Suffers Serious Burns from White Phosphorus Handling Accident at Army 1/1/2000 - Umatilla, OR - Trace Amount of Nerve Gas Discovered Leaking from Army Weapons

-- Diane (cptlauthor@aol.com), February 21, 2000.


http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=energy_news.ht&nicat=refout&tit le=Refinery%20Outages

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-- Helium (HeliumAvid@yahoo.com), February 21, 2000.


The best site I've found is

Marcia's Charts

Although she states that she won't update any more they were recently updated, although there was one more refinery closing this morning (the Exxon refinery in Benicia, Calif)

-- rocky (rknolls@no.spam), February 21, 2000.


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