The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) today called on the oil industry to eliminate the type of atmospheric vent that caused a release of flammable hydrocarbons at BP's Texas City, ...

GALVESTON — BP refining executive Pat Gower told jurors Friday he didn't know the safety culture at the company's Texas City refinery had lapsed after he stopped working there in 2000, but he stopped ...

Safety recommendations for petroleum refineries, triggered by a fatal accident in March 2005 at a Texas City, Texas, BP refinery, were issued by the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) ...

The unsafe placement of mobile trailers which may have contributed to the deaths of 15 workers in a March 23 BP refinery blast is one of six safety issues identified in a preliminary report to be ...

GALVESTON — An air pollution expert testifying on behalf of 10 workers suing BP for injuries they blame on the the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion said the oil company deceived regulators about the ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 28-- Investigators from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) Oct. 27 identified six key safety issues underlying the Mar. 23 explosions and fire at BP PLC's ...

A crisis in "corporate cultural behavior" created conditions that led to the deaths of 15 workers and injuries to 180 more at BP's Texas City, Texas, refinery, says the head of the Chemical Safety & ...

HOUSTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The American Petroleum Institute said in new safety recommendations issued to U.S. refiners Wednesday that blowdown drums, like one at the center of the deadly 2005 BP ...

On Dec. 9, 2005, BP Products North America Inc. released its final incident investigation report on the Mar. 23 Texas City, Tex., refinery explosion and fire (OGJ, Dec. 19, 2005, p. 5). As a follow-up ...

HOUSTON - An investigative board Tuesday urged the petroleum industry and federal regulators to eliminate from all U.S. refineries the type of atmospheric vent that caused last year's deadly explosion ...

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) chairwoman Carolyn Merritt blamed the explosion, which killed 15 people and injured 180 others, on "aging infrastructure, overzealous cost cutting, ...

HOUSTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Tuesday blamed a fatal explosion at BP's Texas City refinery on cost-cutting and poor risk management and called for tougher standards for ...