I remember that day. The explosion was huge. It felt like a small earthquake. I live like a 5 miles radius from CAPECO. The place was on fire like 2 or 3 days. I was waiting for this CSB report. I like to share CSB videos on my safety training clases. I knew it was from an overflow. But 200K gallons…? Wow! The tanks looked like if they were made of plastic melted. Thanks for this video. Impressive!
A similar explosion in 2005, hemel, England bruned for a week and a near by motorway had to be closed at one point. The place was called bunfield and I felt the explosion in bed from another town.
It seems to me like equipment from 50s-60s. Manual valves not controlled by central operations or predefined program, no backup fuel level probe. In those days you dont need a physical contact to measure fuel level. No flow control, no alarms. How is this facility even allowed to provide a storage for gasoline? They basically threat hazardous and very expensive material like water on garden.
Check out the 2005 hemel oil depot explosion, it was was measured at 2.4 the depot was called bunfield and I felt the explosion in my bed from another town
This happened in the uk in 2005, i live next to buncefield, the terminal is right on the edge of town, the explosion was so big it blew all the windows out, ripped roofs off of buildings, and it burnt for 5 days, the smoke could be seen from space!
This all could have been avoided if they would have had high level alarms 🚨with a 1000 bbls safe fill. And so much for LEL readings and emergency stops...
Yeah well from what I've gathered of how industry operates. Making suggested improvements like fitting high level alarms would have been deemed too costly and likely brushed off by management of the tank overflowing as an unlikely event.
They use radar now to more accurately measure tank level and scada to shut the system down if it gets to within a few inches of the vents to ensure this doesn't happen. There are 'floating roofs' , just large steel sheets with pontoons, floating on the liquid to minimize air in contact with hydrocarbons for fire control.
Yep remember buncefield going up on that Sunday. For the last 4 days I was running out of there. Sunday was coryton. Never forget that day. Still on the Tankers on sainsbury's.
The first two questions are: Why would anybody try filling a tank that had a faulty level gauge, and, who in their right mind would live anywhere near such a tank farm?
In addition to existing level sensors ..They should have a float on the outside of all those holding tanks with feet graduation marks ...so workers can walk to each tank and see the level ...not bad to have back up way to verify how much room is in each tank
CAPECO was totally negligent .....absolutely zero or idiotic industry safety procedures used for these massive above ground petroleum storage tanks.......
*Oops* Glad they can't afford to maybe hire one extra person or maybe spend a hundred dollars to fix a gauge. Seems like losing 200 million of product would deter them but I guess they make so much money it doesn't matter.
ok? and? you want a fucking cookie? OMG! you just happen to live in the area where this happened, along with millions of others that lived in the "area" no one fucking cares . NO JOKE
Why everything is controlled and monitored in a control room in oil refinery industry? But in the storage facilities, people have to check the liquid level with an unreliable measuring device by standing next to the container.
process safety management FAILURE! Poor maintenance of "electronic transmitter card". It was an avoidable accident. Complacency to safety = accident wait to happen.
Some solutions to things that went wrong require more complex understanding of the system ..this one is on the easier side ...just knowing how much room is remaining to not over fill ... others more complex chemical reactions thk you good day
They should've climbed the tank and manually checked it from the sample hatch on the top of the tank to be 100% sure of level. Supervisor should've known that.
This sounds like the fault of the employees more so than the procedure itself. Yes the measurements were broken but the fact they let it run for hours and dumped nearly 20 full tanker truck sized gas into the area means no one was watching or paying attention at all. The thing is the operator on the other end was monitoring the radio and as soon as he heard it was overflowing he stopped. So that means he was doing his job but the other folks weren't. It would be totally forgivable had they dumped a few 1000 gallons of gas but to wait until nearly 200,000 gallons dumped before catching on really screams incompetent.
You would think these industries that handle flammable fuels and liquids would have the most stringent protocols and procedures you wouldn't think there would be any guessing or doubt about any procedure at all no wonder there's so many of these accidents throughout the world you got billion dollar companies that don't want to reinvest in their own company it's profit profit profit
I'm surprised their wasn't any underground tanks these can spill into and massive monitoring and alarms if gas spilled into them or some kind of burn off stack miles away
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Suprising that such a large facility didn't have automatic overfill inlet valve cutoff, overflow pipe leading to slump/controlled burn facility, redundant gauges and overall material balance system to know quantities of oil in tanks which can be cross verified with level gauges. Looks like an amateur outfit running the place with no knowledge of chemical engineering 101.
I remember that day. The explosion was huge. It felt like a small earthquake. I live like a 5 miles radius from CAPECO. The place was on fire like 2 or 3 days. I was waiting for this CSB report. I like to share CSB videos on my safety training clases. I knew it was from an overflow. But 200K gallons…? Wow! The tanks looked like if they were made of plastic melted. Thanks for this video. Impressive!
A similar explosion in 2005, hemel, England bruned for a week and a near by motorway had to be closed at one point. The place was called bunfield and I felt the explosion in bed from another town.
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It seems to me like equipment from 50s-60s. Manual valves not controlled by central operations or predefined program, no backup fuel level probe. In those days you dont need a physical contact to measure fuel level. No flow control, no alarms. How is this facility even allowed to provide a storage for gasoline? They basically threat hazardous and very expensive material like water on garden.
Woowww! That surveillance video! - That was everything I was expecting it to be from the description of the incident leading up to that.
Check out the 2005 hemel oil depot explosion, it was was measured at 2.4 the depot was called bunfield and I felt the explosion in my bed from another town
you stated key words...."COST" , "FOREMAN" and "ESTIMATING" seems like these three go hand n hand
This happened in the uk in 2005, i live next to buncefield, the terminal is right on the edge of town, the explosion was so big it blew all the windows out, ripped roofs off of buildings, and it burnt for 5 days, the smoke could be seen from space!
Unbelievable, there was no monitoring of the transfer process only at 1 hour intervals ?
What could go wrong in an hour? Its not like hundreds of thousands of gallons could leak ou- *kaboom*
@@renaminginprogress6903 You should listen and read more than type and talk.
That was an excellent little video. I am very happy that noone was hurt or killed. 🙏
This all could have been avoided if they would have had high level alarms 🚨with a 1000 bbls safe fill. And so much for LEL readings and emergency stops...
Yeah well from what I've gathered of how industry operates. Making suggested improvements like fitting high level alarms would have been deemed too costly and likely brushed off by management of the tank overflowing as an unlikely event.
Can't wait to see the full video as well as a animation of West, TX
unbelievable how easy this was to prevent
These things almost always are. It's people being lazy or idiots that cause most of these.
They use radar now to more accurately measure tank level and scada to shut the system down if it gets to within a few inches of the vents to ensure this doesn't happen.
There are 'floating roofs' , just large steel sheets with pontoons, floating on the liquid to minimize air in contact with hydrocarbons for fire control.
Echoes of Buncefield for sure - seems the lessons were not learnt!!. As a former Terminal Manager, this was always one of my greatest fears!
Yep remember buncefield going up on that Sunday. For the last 4 days I was running out of there. Sunday was coryton. Never forget that day. Still on the Tankers on sainsbury's.
And gas goes up in flame, the customers are charged for it in the form of higher prices for what if any is left.
The first two questions are: Why would anybody try filling a tank that had a faulty level gauge, and, who in their right mind would live anywhere near such a tank farm?
Any body can reveal that what software was used - really amazing
Chilling, yet informative. Excellent video.
In addition to existing level sensors ..They should have a float on the outside of all those holding tanks with feet graduation marks ...so workers can walk to each tank and see the level ...not bad to have back up way to verify how much room is in each tank
CAPECO was totally negligent .....absolutely zero or idiotic industry safety procedures used for these massive above ground petroleum storage tanks.......
This is almost a carbon copy of the Buncefield incident that happened in the UK in 2005 - has nobody learned from that?
Steve Forster Excellent comment, and it has happened at other facilities.
www.hse.gov.uk/comah/buncefield/buncefield-report.pdf
Steve Forster Excellent comment. Those who don't learn from history are likely to repeat it.
*Oops* Glad they can't afford to maybe hire one extra person or maybe spend a hundred dollars to fix a gauge. Seems like losing 200 million of product would deter them but I guess they make so much money it doesn't matter.
It's almost as if anytime fuel prices drop these accidents occur, like they wait for errors and ignorance to complete a pre-known event
Thank you for sharing!
when will he whole safety video will be released? ps. i remember this day i was in the bathroom when it happen no joke
Luis G Luna Seems like the place to be all right!
ok? and? you want a fucking cookie? OMG! you just happen to live in the area where this happened, along with millions of others that lived in the "area" no one fucking cares . NO JOKE
Thank god they had a smart supervisor.
There was a big tank farm fire that killed 2, in Doraville GA, in 1972, caused by overfilling a tank.
th-cam.com/video/g08iOj0Tr-A/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Why everything is controlled and monitored in a control room in oil refinery industry? But in the storage facilities, people have to check the liquid level with an unreliable measuring device by standing next to the container.
Huh, so thats what a literal ocean of gasoline looks like
process safety management FAILURE! Poor maintenance of "electronic transmitter card". It was an avoidable accident. Complacency to safety = accident wait to happen.
Some solutions to things that went wrong require more complex understanding of the system ..this one is on the easier side ...just knowing how much room is remaining to not over fill ... others more complex chemical reactions thk you good day
Could be necesary to improve the storage of inflammable liquids for huge quantities.
Never saw this in the news.
They should've climbed the tank and manually checked it from the sample hatch on the top of the tank to be 100% sure of level. Supervisor should've known that.
No one was killed, the only good news in this video.
Strangely, I find that if a couple people responsible for this would have died, we would be better off as a species.
Think of how much money they saved by not replacing the transmitter.
And I assume by not installing an overflow detector
I geuss a video camara to monitor each tank would be much to costly.
Employee: "Sooo I know I like kinda blew up the entire company site but do I still have a job?"
Common Sense says...DON'T USE THAT TANK UNTIL IT IS REPAIRED. PLUS... USE 24 HOUR MONITORING WITH VIDEO EQUIPMENT TO PREVENT THIS FROM EVER HAPPENING.
This sounds like the fault of the employees more so than the procedure itself. Yes the measurements were broken but the fact they let it run for hours and dumped nearly 20 full tanker truck sized gas into the area means no one was watching or paying attention at all. The thing is the operator on the other end was monitoring the radio and as soon as he heard it was overflowing he stopped. So that means he was doing his job but the other folks weren't. It would be totally forgivable had they dumped a few 1000 gallons of gas but to wait until nearly 200,000 gallons dumped before catching on really screams incompetent.
... and who absorbed the price of their bad judgement?
this is why insurance is a good idea...these are great videos by the way
Did the employees got fired? Hope so.
Yeah they should of not filled it fast enough to overflow in twice the frequency its level was monitored.
Can I use this video for education?
NO, especially not for education.
Maybe stay on hand instead of leaving for a full hour.
An employee should have been on site at all times but, that would have cut into profits.
There was an employee on site at all times. Were you not paying attention?
What went wrong? Where is your usually detailed analysis?
Yeah, let's just keep filling up in this tank that we cannot monitor. Stupid.
Can we get the Arabic translation
You would think these industries that handle flammable fuels and liquids would have the most stringent protocols and procedures you wouldn't think there would be any guessing or doubt about any procedure at all no wonder there's so many of these accidents throughout the world you got billion dollar companies that don't want to reinvest in their own company it's profit profit profit
Those workers felt like they were in a action movie when they saw they flame 🔥 🥵
I'm surprised their wasn't any underground tanks these can spill into and massive monitoring and alarms if gas spilled into them or some kind of burn off stack miles away
Man, what a waste of gasoline. I coulda used that! ALL of it!
Pobre de nuestro planeta. Toda esa gasolina se quemo en un instante. De otro modo se hubiera quemado en el motor de nuestros vehículos. De todos modos el daño a nuestro ambiente es prácticamente el mismo. Espero que continúe el progreso hacia formas mas limpias de energía.
Suprising that such a large facility didn't have automatic overfill inlet valve cutoff, overflow pipe leading to slump/controlled burn facility, redundant gauges and overall material balance system to know quantities of oil in tanks which can be cross verified with level gauges.
Looks like an amateur outfit running the place with no knowledge of chemical engineering 101.
Disaster.
Somebody is no good at basic math
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Gasoline needs to be banned. I hope they were fied millions for negligence and damages.
are you a troll or do you genuinely think that
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