{"id":5265,"date":"2023-05-08T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2023-05-08T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:42:05","slug":"fire-burns-for-third-day-at-shell-texas-chemical-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/5265\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire burns for third day at Shell Texas chemical plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>A fire burned for a third day on Sunday at Shell Plc&#8217;s\u00a0chemical plant in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, a company spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire initially ignited on Friday afternoon in an explosion in an olefins unit, used to make plastics and rubber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire was extinguished for a few hours on Saturday morning before it reignited around 3 p.m. CDT (2000 GMT), said Shell spokesperson Curtis Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No injuries were reported from the fire. Nine people were evaluated and released at local hospitals on Friday for possible chemical exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water is being sprayed onto the fire to keep it under control until the chemicals, which were being processed at the time of the explosion, burn away, Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water may continue to be sprayed for up to 36 hours after the fire is extinguished to keep nearby equipment cool, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water runoff has exceeded the chemical plant&#8217;s wastewater capacity and is being diverted into the Houston Ship Channel, Smith said. A boom has been deployed in the channel to contain any chemicals that may be carried by the water runoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith said air monitoring in neighboring communities &#8220;has not detected any harmful levels of chemicals&#8221; from the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Hadayia, executive director of Air Alliance Houston, said Shell&#8217;s statements about risks to the community were self-serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;History has shown that these early statements are for the benefit of industry public relations and not public health,&#8221; Hadayia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olefins units are the central units in petrochemical complexes, producing ethylene, butadiene and propylene from hydrocarbon feedstocks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-05-08T12:42:05+00:00\"> 8 May 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire burned for a third day on Sunday at Shell Plc&#8217;s\u00a0chemical plant in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, a company spokesperson said. The fire initially ignited on Friday afternoon in an explosion in an olefins unit, used to make plastics and rubber. The fire was extinguished for a few hours on Saturday [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23,36,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-hse","category-lastnews","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}