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Explosion at Exxon Refinery In Southern California - Live Feed
It's not been a good week for oil safety in America. Following the derailment earlier in the week, CBS now reports an explosion at Exxon Mobil's Torrance, California refinery occured at 850amPT...
- *TORRANCE FIRE DEPT RESPONDING TO EXXON MOBIL REFINERY: CB
- *EXXON SAYS EMERGENCY PROCEDURES ACTIVATED AT TORRANCE REFINERY
- *EXXON TORRANCE SAID TO HAVE EXPLOSION IN FCC
While dismissed as 'normal flaring' to begin with, Exxon has confirmed it is not and evacuations have been ordered as ash is falling up to 3 miles away.
The Torrance Refinery covers 750 acres, employs approximately 650 employees and 550 contractors, processes an average of 155,000 barrels of crude oil per day and produces 1.8 billion gallons of gasoline per year.
As Reuters reports,
Students in about 30 schools were told to shelter in place after a possible incident at Exxon Mobil Corp's (XOM.N) Torrance, California, refinery on Wednesday, a report on the CBC Los Angeles news website said.
A separate report with ktla.com said residents reported hearing an explosion from the direction of the refinery and that the refinery was working to control a petroleum leak.
In a filing with state pollution regulator, the 149,500 barrel-per-day Torrance refinery reported "an incident" that caused flaring at the refinery.
The company was not immediately available for comment.
Furthermore, the refinery suffered structural damage as can be seen in the photos below.
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RT @ABC7 TORRANCE UPDATE: Exxon Mobil Refinery suffered some structural damage following blast http://t.co/TEB5qBhfYt pic.twitter.com/neD3hQ43jP
— MsMNaomi (@MissMNaomi) February 18, 2015
UPDATE:Petroleum leak prompted activation of #Exxon's flare system. 'That's normal'-Capt Deuel pic.twitter.com/4dxsdSFkCi http://t.co/CZSszHQBNt
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) February 18, 2015
@PVReiki explosion reported at #Exxon plant in Torrance. Im near beach 3+ miles away. Ash covering vehicles now. pic.twitter.com/ylI3ZEff36
— William C Albert (@WilliamC_Albert) February 18, 2015
ExxonMobil Torrance, CA refinery has direct pipeline link to LAX International Airport, so it supplies fuel there $XOM (via @NickDunnCNBC)
— Dominic Chu (@TheDomino) February 18, 2015
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This is not the first incident at The Torrance refinery...
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Warren Buffett got out just in time!
Yep.. Classic "Who is John Galt?" result here.
ISIS in California? Or just Saudi Arabia destroying competition?
terrorism not possible with our terrorist friendly admin / s
at least not in the headlines
it is not explosion...it is snow, russian missile to control the weather..they must have misstarget some clouds...
we misscloudtargeted some folks....?
It is funny how the California refineries always have an explsion or fire when gas prices drop.
Union workers strike at the refinery, literally?
Texas refineries usually start blowing up too when oil goes too low, so I would say keep an eye out for Texas to follow suit.
TPTB call it creative destruction.
Nope,,, just normal cheap out corporate maintenance.
Actually its the Greenies that wont let the refiners fix or improve anything that has to do with refining or oil and gas.....its bad bad bad.....try to get a permit to build a refinery in California...lol....NEVER
So in pic 5 it looks like a building or garage collapsed rather crookedly.
Isn't it supposed to collapse straight down into its' own footprint?
i live just down the freeway from there...
yep. "cheap out" is my guess too, and you should see the Edison plant down the road, crumbling/rusting in place.
Infrastructure
traffic jam of lawyers on the way
Surely there's some way they could blame BP? Usually works.
Check for gasoline on his shoes.....
Gotta do something to get that price up.
Short term: Bullish for gasoline and oil prices, or no big deal, depending on the damage.
Medium to long term: Either this will be fixed quickly, or it will be bullish for gasoline prices and bearish for crude oil prices.
This will increase the price of gasoline but decrease the price of oil. This is one less refinery bidding for crude oil deliveries. That's bearish.
But that doesn't mean that a short term panic won't happen before traders realize this.
Ha, refineries don't have anything to do with setting the price of oil. They account for what .5% of the traded contract volume.
Goldman Sachs trades more oil contracts in a day than all US refineries have traded in the past 50 years.
It will definitely be the twilight zone when gas is 2.00 a gallon, and yet every pump in Cali is dry.....
+1
Stockpiles depleted. .. check.
Well, I paid $2.47 last week and 2.81 this morning. They're on the right trajectory. This should finish the job.
Miffed
Crack spread just got wider.
BTFRD where R=Refinery ?
Meats back on the menu boys!
Krugman's wetting his pants in excitement.
wall street got to think twice before messing up with Texas ...
The economy is so strong that it exploded!
hahahaha
From the ktla article: "The refinery covers roughly 750 acres, according to Exxon Mobil Corporation. It processes an average of 155,000 barrels of crude oil per day and produces 1.8 million gallons of gasoline each year."
Something wrong with that math, how does a facility that processes 155K X 42 = 6 million gallons of crude a day, produce only 1.8 million gallons of gas a YEAR? It can't all go to make Jet A.
It says 1.8 billion gallons.
BILLIONS.
Not millions.
edit: ktla article in the link does say '1.8 million' although the above ZH undelined section says '1.8 billion'...
???
Someone beat me to it..
Exxon? California? With any luck the entire state will burn to the ground.
If that happened, China would have no one to sell trinkets to, and all of India would be unemployed.
California is a pretty state, it just has too many Californians living in and governing it.
"The problem with California is it's filled with Californians."
Well, that and the earthquakes.
too much californication and mexanization
CA was fine when it was just filled with Californians. The problems started after WWII when the rest of the Country moved there.
Not in my case. Although my mother was conceived there during the end of WWII, grandfather had enough wisdom to move back South. I might say it was worse during the Depression which preceeded the War.
Didn't Warren Buffett dump his shares in Exxon yesterday?
No, between oct 1st and dec 31st 2014.
I doubt the U.S. could even build a new refinery today, much less in CA.
Probably take 10 years and they'd have to have it funded by the FED.
It would take 5 years just to cut through all of the regulatory bureaucratic red tape.
"The company was not immediately available for comment."
well now...
Yeah, they're on the phone with the insurance company.
And about 30 attornies as well.
Something had to be done to get the price of gas back up.
Nice fucking timing Exxon!!!
Shit, we need an expert on site stat!
Quick: call Hunter Biden!
didn't know they had jewish lightning in the oil business
Yes..this is how Exxon will be able to build a new refinery...California would never let them do it before.....now they can..this refined the special mix for Californias special regulations....they are so Special in California you know...I hope the price of their gas doubles....they deserve to pay more...they vote for this crap....should be good for ELON though...and his green toy....
Collect the insurance AND drive up the price. Win/win for Exxon. Same old story.
"Exxon Mobil Refinery suffered some structural damage"
It's what you get with a shutdown turnaround when no one can read, or speak english.
If you live near any plant, you should move, or prepare and have a plan in place, this is just the beginning.
IT STARTS. Notice what oil and oil stocks have been doing the past two weeks? Goldman and the TBTFs have been touting $20 oil while they have been loading up. Now the annual spring refinery fires, Nigerian rebels, barge collisions, oil train derailments, Middle East rhetoric, Ukraine war rhetoric, switch to summer formula, OPEC to cut production headlines, US production to decline headlines, etc -- will be coming out in force. Get ready for $3.00 gas on the Fourth of July!
Plus there's a strike going on.
It's obvious that the union boyz will be sucking hind tit on this one.
Right. Its the illegals' fault. Idjit
Well, shit.
"Whatever it takes." A couple more or so of these "accidents" just might get the price of oil heading up again, eh? Buy, buy!
It's no better than Big Oil's excuse of rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and the shoreline refineries each summer when a tropical storm or hurricane threatens the region and they shut down. It becomes a pasttime, tracking this stuff. Give me 'da $$!
Oh noes, the Niger Delta scuba divers from Africa came to invade Exxon plant with blowpipe darts using Gibson tactical guitar wood armament. The irony.
http://www.cabelas.com/category/Blowguns/104223780.uts
Here comes the daily propaganda on refinery hiccups to drive up oil prices. We already watched this movie in 2009
Could Exxon concievably have blown up its own facility to increase the price of oil?
No that would be stupid. More likely the saefety officer is a guatamalen asylum seeker on a 90 hour week for $4.40/hour minus the hire of his work boots.
Forget high altitude EMP bursts from the NK's or ebola laden ISIS crossing the Mexican border. As it continually shaves its cost base to the bone and then some Western Capitalism is doing a great job of destroying itself from within.
Insurance matters. Don't probe in this matter.
/sarc
Right down my street!
What's in a barrel of crude? <Lot's of Arab blood!!!>
http://www.energyalmanac.ca.gov/gasoline/whats_in_barrel_oil.html
Crude Oil Refining Process-- Note: home heating/ deisel fuel has an additive of kerosine in winter months which totals 23%. WOW!
http://www.oil-press.net/images/Crude-Oil-Refining-process.jpg
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I think that there is cost cutting (corner cutting) going on in the refinery space.
Here in Philly, Sunoco sold their big Girard Point refinery to a company called "Philadelphia Energy Solutions". It's a complex refinery (capable of refining all crude oil products), not a "starter kit". And now there are all sorts of "anomolies" happening on a pretty regular basis; hydrogen sulfide leaks, fires,.... These things were very, very rare (although not unheard of) back when Sun Oil Co was running the joint.
There is no "work around" for the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Perhaps. Drive the investigation upstairs. Then you can fiqure out the rat bastard controlling interest. It's all quite transparent, the two party system is filtering. Egging one person after the other with one collective goal in mind.
Not the first time for the Torrance Refinery. Check back in the late 80's to early 90's when this very same refinery blew up. Decrepit, run down, nasty, blackened foul place to begin with. Head out south on PCH out of Torrance towards Long Beach, and all those refineries are all the same dilapidated condition, ready to blow at any time.
Unpossible! I get my news from CNBC and CNBC mentioned only that an incident had accured (they carefully stopped short of using the word explosion)...BULLISH!!!
Of course it is possile some home grown "christian survivalist" group committed this atrocity against the state.
If Exxon Torrance is one of the refineries struck by USWA, it is unlikely that it will be repaired before the strike is settled.
We used to live in Torrance and the Mobil refinery blew up so frequently, that it became a matter of routine. We would say, "There goes the refinery again."
It was an interesting physics lesson though, you could here the explosion and the shockwave would ripple right through the front wall of our house and out the back wall. We were about a mile and a half from the refinery.
Refinery looks like a Primark in Bangladesh.
Putin did it. Russky HKAARP.
Marvin Gaye ~ What's Going On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67ETkOzAck
Just some light entertainment for all those boats waiting to unload.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I may be mistaken but I think the Torrence facility is the only US refinery capable of refining Venezuelan heavy, high sulpher crude oil. Coincidence?
I sometimes work at Syncrude in northern Alberta, and ever since Exxon took over operations of the plant the maintenance has become reacitve rather than preventitive. We "low-maintenanced" a few folks... I am certain the idea is to run Syncrude's upgrader right into the ground and instead pipe the raw bitumen to Texas where labour costs are cheaper... Hence the need for Keystone and the other 80 or so pipelines currently in various stages of approval with the government of Alberta.