But BP said Monday that its Texas City refinery was operating normally, according to TradeTheNews.
Valero's Houston and Texas City refineries were shut down for the storm as well.
The organization will use most of the Texas City royalties to buy more habitat.
One is that the disasters at Texas City and Prudhoe Bay occurred before he took over.
The explosion and fire at BP's Texas City refinery killed 15 people and injured 180 staff.
In 2005, an explosion at a Texas City refinery killed 15 workers and injured hundreds more.
The barbecue rig now at San Antonio would be dispatched to Texas City.
As well as the sale of its TNK-BP stake, BP also sold its Texas City refinery in the first quarter.
Its safety record is stained with numerous instances of cost-cutting negligence, in Alaska, in Texas City, and in Texas City again.
That year an explosion at the company's Texas City refinery killed 15 people and injured 180, as well as causing huge damage.
An explosion at its Texas City refinery last year killed 15.
When Hayward, a geologist, took over in 2007--after the Texas City refinery explosion and Alaska pipeline spill--he emphasized safety with a far greater sense of urgency.
Browne has a similar explanation for the Texas City explosion, saying the company erred by focusing on individual safety records instead of the possibility of systemic failure.
What is even more worrisome is that while the national average has decreased by 8 percent since 2007, the average balance in this Texas city has remained steady.
On 16 April, 1947, a fire on a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate set off a series of explosions in the port of Texas City, and fires that burned for days.
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The Houston and Texas City refineries had plenty of gasoline in storage, but with terminals and truck racks down, there was no way to load it for distribution to filling stations.
Ironically Hayward came into his job three years ago promising to focus on safety after a series of accidents, including the 2005 Texas City, Tex. refinery explosion that killed 15 people.
At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent floods had knocked out power to about 12, 000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in the Texas city and the surrounding county, authorities said.
Emergency director Marcogliese asked terminal managers to line up fuel trucks that could be sent to resupply a gas station near the Texas City refinery so workers at least would have fuel to get around.
But BP critics on the Gulf Coast and Capitol Hill have pointed to similar promises to improve safety after the blast at its Texas City refinery in 2005, which killed 15 people and injured 170.
Most notably, BP's Whiting and Texas City plants were running at half capacity, as was Valero Energy's McKee refinery in West Texas, keeping off the market some 500, 000 barrels per day of fuels, about 3% of total U.S. demand.
Hayward who was vaulted into his new job three years ago after promising to focus on safety following a series of accidents including the 2005 Texas City, Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 people, has clearly failed on the job.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster followed other failures including a leak from a pipeline in Alaska in 2006 and the Texas City refinery explosion in 2005, which killed 15 people in one of the US's worst industrial accidents of recent years.
One of the worst disasters in U.S. history involving a form of ammonia occurred in April 1947 when a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate -- a solid fertlizer composed of ammonia and nitrogen -- caught fire while docked in Texas City, Texas, in April 1947.
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His final years were marred by a succession of devastating accidents an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others, and an oil spill a year later that dumped 4, 800 barrels of oil at Prudhoe Bay, on the coast of Alaska.
Most notably, BP's Whiting and Texas City plants were running at half capacity, as was Valero Energy (nyse: VLO - news - people )'s McKee refinery in West Texas, keeping off the market some 500, 000 barrels per day of fuels, about 3% of total U.S. demand.
Another change was that the importance of process safety -- focusing on an operation as a whole, rather than small individual accidents -- was one of the lessons of the Texas City disaster and has now been emphasised in the drilling operations as well as BP's refineries, Mr Morrison said.
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