Everyday tens of thousands of workers across Houston and around Texas go to work in the oil and gas industry. The jobs pay well but there is also risk that goes along with working in the industry, including injury as a result of an oil rig accident. In Oklahoma, Dianna Waldridge is coping with that […]
Read MoreFive workers killed when gas well in Oklahoma explodes. Another worker flown by life flight to hospital. Initial reports of a blowout at the well followed by an uncontrolled release of gas. A massive fireball and thick black smoke erupted from a gas well in Pittsburg County in eastern Oklahoma on Monday. ABC News reports […]
Read MoreWith 27 serious accidents in Alaska this year, BP still raises questions on its safety record in Houston and around America. The world was horrified on April 20, 2010 when the Deep Water Horizon drilling rig exploded and later sank, killing eleven crew members and spewing 200 million of barrels of oil into the Gulf […]
Read MoreA tragic week in the oil and gas industry reminds of how dangerous it is to work in that industry. In one of the incidents, a Houston area man lost his life. It was a disturbing week in the oil and gas business as three separate accidents in Texas and Louisiana resulted in seven injured […]
Read MoreIn a natural disaster, dangerous pollutants can be released from Houston area refineries. Government agencies shut down sensors during Hurricane Harvey, trusting refineries to report releases of chemicals. Residents of Manchester, a “fence line” community adjacent to oil refineries, complained of a noxious smell during the rains of the hurricane. No flood, but an irritating […]
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