A massive fire has caused explosions of oil tanks at a storage facility near Kiev, killing several firefighters. The inferno is out of control, setting 17 huge tanks ablaze. There are gas storage tanks on the site at risk of detonation.
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A huge oil refinery tank fire on Sicily sent hundreds of panicked residents fleeing the area, fearing the fire could spread to residential buildings. The fire was reportedly seen miles away.
Panicking residents, sicilian oil refinery tank fire
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A huge fuel tank blaze engulfing Libya’s biggest fuel storage facility in the capital, Tripoli, has spread to a second tank.
Fuel Tank Blaze Near Tripoli Airport Out of Control
Method for comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies – Part 5. How do we determine the foam blanket thickness that is necessary for the successful extinguishment in two minutes?
Part 5. The foam blanket thickness
Method for comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies – Part 4. To understand, why the increased foam application rate is so important, for the first we must understand the mechanism that makes the foam moving on the hydrocarbon surface. Let us take a model, where the foam is flowing down […]
Part 4. Why does the increased foam application rate shorten ...
Method for comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies – Part 3. How can we improve the success rate of the Storage Tank fire fighting? We have good news for the Fire Experts: we have the opportunity for positive influence on the measured efficiency by changing the parameters of the tank fire […]
Part 3. How can we improve the success rate of ...
Method for comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies – Part 2. Introducing the Foam Application Efficiency: proposal for the industry for comparison method of fire fighting technologies for Storage Tank Fires. The R&d Department of FoamFatale International Inc. suggests to use the FOAM APPLICATION EFFICIENCY (η) as the numerical […]
Part 2. Foam Application Efficiency
Method for comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies – Part 1. Sometimes the management of a Storage Site has to face with the problem of comparison and choosing the possibly best tank fire extinguishing strategy and technology to protect their tanks. The comparison usually happens when new tanks are intended […]
Part 1. Comparison of different fire extinguishing technologies
Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 8/8. Fire protection: how an environmental aware system works In the case of fire in any of the A, B or C storage tanks, its fire detector sends an alarm signal to the pneumatically operated foam valve control […]
Fire protection: description of operation. Part 8/8.
1 Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 7/8. Extinguishing tank fire – outline of the task In the northern provinces of Canada, oil pipelines run in a length of several thousands of kilometers in uninhabited areas. The pump stations that convey the oil operate without an […]
Extinguishing tank fire without water supply – a case study. ...
Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 6/8. What are the main features of the latest tank fire extinguishing systems? The amount of foaming agent necessary for extinguishing is less than 10% of the amount used by former techniques The foam is not produced at […]
Today’s tank fire extinguishing: the main technical features. Part 6/8.
Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 5/8. Tank fire protection development: the main research task is to eliminate the drawbacks. Research covered three key areas: elaboration of a strategy improving the success ratio of fire fighting determination of new technical parameters for extinguishing development of […]
Tank fire protection development: the latest direction. Part 5/8.
Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 4/8. Tank fire fighting development at U.S. companies is based on the assumption that in the case of fire, because of the long preparation time, fire will inevitably destroy the devices necessary to conduct the built-in or semi-stable extinguishing procedure, […]
Tank fire fighting: development trends. Part 4/8.
1 Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 3/8. Experiences unambiguously show that the combustion of over 60,000 m3 tanks cannot be extinguished with the most of applied extinguishing methods. What now? At the present time, the fire prevention strategy used by oil and chemical companies is […]
Known extinguishing methods, problem identification. Part 3/8.
27 Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – part 2/8. Impact on the environment can no longer be ignored when using technological equipment in the chemical and oil industry. Guidelines are provided and obligations are laid down by law with regard to the permissible extent of environmental impacts; soil, […]
Need to introduce environmental awareness in fire fighting. Part 2/8.
The laws intended to safeguard our environment prescribe only indirectly that those provisions related to the use of the environment should be respected also during disaster recovery. ISO 14001 sets out the criteria for an environmental management system. It does not state requirements for environmental performance, but maps out […]
Introduction of the ISO 14001 to the disaster recovery – ...
A boilover type of fire refers to an extremely hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil or petrochemical fueled fire with water. The hazard results due to the difference in density between oil and water. Boilover is also common in the home as a chip […]
Boilover
Blaze hits Marathon Texas City refinery storage tank. A fire broke out on Thursday afternoon on a storage tank pump at Marathon Petroleum Corp’s 451,000 barrel per day Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, which was owned by BP Plc. Bruce Clawson, Texas City emergency management coordinator, confirmed there was a blaze and storage […]
Blaze hits Marathon Texas City refinery storage tank
Amuay refinery blast: at the refinery (in the Venezuela’s largest) spread to a third storage tank as firefighters try to contain flames burning since an Aug. 25 gas explosion killed at least 48 people. Gasoline prices rallied in New York. Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said two of the fires at tanks holding naphtha […]
Amuay refinery blast: 48 killed
1 Jakarta storage depot fire: a fire broke out in a storage tank at Indonesia’s state oil and gas company PT Pertamina on Sunday 18 January. In the Jakarta storage depot fire the fire consumed 1,300 kilolitres (kl) of petrol stored in a 3,000-kl tank until it was doused on Monday […]