BP's Texas City refinery, with a refining capacity of more than 460,000 barrels per day, is the third largest petroleum refinery in the United States. On March 23, 2005, a series of fires and explosions at the refinery claimed the lives of 15 workers and injured more than 170 people. "these failures (to contain, control, mitigate, plan, and clean-up) appear to be deeply rooted in a multi-decade history of organizational malfunction This disaster also has eerie similarities to the BP Texas City refinery disaster.3 These similarities include: a) multiple system operator malfunctions Corrosion?Related Accidents in Petroleum Refineries. Petroleum refining is also a high hazard industry with most sites processing thousands of tonnes of oil into various product lines each year many of which are flammable, toxic to human health or toxic to the environment. Failure to Learn also analyses the similarities between this event and the Longford Gas Plant explosion in Victoria in 1998, featured in his earlier Recent events including the global financial crisis and the BP Texas City refinery disaster have been linked to such incentives, with commentators 5 System Description: The BP Texas City Refinery is the third largest refinery in the United States Many critical incidents were not reported over the years, therefore there were no lessons learned to BP, Fatal Accident Investigation Report, Isomerization Unit Explosion Final Report, Texas City The Texas City Refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a hydrocarbon vapour cloud exploded at the ISOM isomerization process unit at BP's Texas The troubled Texas City refinery, for example, had five managers in six years. Revisiting Texas City in 2009, inspectors from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found more than 700 safety violations and proposed a record fine of $87.4 million — topping the earlier record set by BP in the Watchdog imposes its largest-ever penalty on oil giant for failing to protect workers following refinery disaster in 2005. The panel did not investigate the Texas City incident or any other past event. ¦ Appropriate adjustments to its performance contract system are recommended along with greater continuity of refinery plant managers and other refinery-level managers having significant process safety How the cultural failure of learning from mistakes can lead to huge consequences. Порекомендовал(а) ROBIN LAL. Andrew Hopkins: Failure to Learn the BP Texas City Refinery Disaster, CCH Australia, Sydney 2008, ISBN 1-921322-44-6. ^ a b Maryam Kalantarnia, Faisal Khan, Kelly Hawboldt: Modelling of BP Texas City refinery accident using dynamic risk assessment approach. On March 23, 2005, an explosion occurred at the isomerization process unit of the BP's Texas City Refinery located in Texas City, Texas. The explosion killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. The Texas City Oil Refinery was built in 1934 and purchased by BP in 1999. On March 23, 2005, an explosion occurred at the isomerization process unit of the BP's Texas City Refinery located in Texas City, Texas. The explosion killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. The Texas City Oil Refinery was built in 1934 and purchased by BP in 1999. Location: texas city, texas. Event: oil refinery explosion. Texas City's emergency services crews began rolling moments after