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'Major incident' confirmed at Canada's largest refinery after reports of explosion
« on: October 08, 2018, 03:31:36 pm »
CNBC
Tom DiChristopher
Oct. 8, 2018

Irving Oil confirmed a "major incident" at its refinery in St. John, New Brunswick after residents reported an explosion at the facility, a critical source of fuel to the U.S. Northeast.

The explosion reportedly rocked the neighborhood around the refinery, which is Canada's largest.

The plant has the capacity to refine 320,000 barrels per day of gasoline, diesel heating oil, jet fuel and other petroleum products.

Irving Oil confirmed a "major incident" at Canada's largest refinery after area residents reported an explosion at the facility, a critical source of fuel to the U.S. Northeast market.

The explosion reportedly rocked the neighborhood around the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. It was not immediately clear what facilities at the plant were impacted.

More... https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/explosion-reported-at-irving-oils-st-john-refinery-candads-largest.html
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Re: 'Major incident' confirmed at Canada's largest refinery after reports of explosion
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2018, 03:33:42 pm »
Ruh roh.  Pray everyone is OK.
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Re: 'Major incident' confirmed at Canada's largest refinery after reports of explosion
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2018, 03:34:34 pm »
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Re: 'Major incident' confirmed at Canada's largest refinery after reports of explosion
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2018, 03:48:48 pm »
This is why you can never have too much oil.
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Re: 'Major incident' confirmed at Canada's largest refinery after reports of explosion
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2018, 03:50:07 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 08, 2018, 03:48:48 pm
This is why you can never have too much oil.

Oil is rather useless without a refinery to make the products the market desires.

Having a surplus of oil does nothing to help a refinery shortage due to outages.
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Re: 'Major incident' confirmed at Canada's largest refinery after reports of explosion
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Re: 'Major incident' confirmed at Canada's largest refinery after reports of explosion
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2018, 06:44:56 pm »

An update: https://www.yahoo.com/news/irving-oil-shuts-saint-john-canada-refinery-fire-165626259.html

No deaths, two minor injuries. Most of the facility was closed for maintenance, the unit that was still active blowed up real good.

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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2018, 06:49:31 pm »
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