Q1: The Texas City Refinery of British Petroleum
Question: All of the calls to action, promises made and changes in process safety since the explosion boil down to one overarching question - is this a safer place to work today than 5 years ago? What has happened to improve the environment, to change the culture and to follow through in executing the promises made?
Jim Lefton
Sub Director, Sub District 1
District 13
USW International Union
BPTC is the 3rd largest refinery in the US, with a production capacity of 475,000 bpd.
Has an economic impact of over $20 billion on the Texas economy and is the largest employer/tax payer in Galveston County.
Let me highlight some of the changes made at the refinery since March 23,2005;
Over $1 billion invested and over 60 million work hours to accomplish the following:
Question: All of the calls to action, promises made and changes in process safety since the explosion boil down to one overarching question - is this a safer place to work today than 5 years ago? What has happened to improve the environment, to change the culture and to follow through in executing the promises made?
Jim Lefton
Sub Director, Sub District 1
District 13
USW International Union
BPTC is the 3rd largest refinery in the US, with a production capacity of 475,000 bpd.
Has an economic impact of over $20 billion on the Texas economy and is the largest employer/tax payer in Galveston County.
Let me highlight some of the changes made at the refinery since March 23,2005;
Over $1 billion invested and over 60 million work hours to accomplish the following:
- Entire 27 miles of steam system renovated
- Isolated or removed all blowdown stacks in light hydrocarbon service (11 removed)
- Constructed and installed new flare systems (4 new installed, with 441 relief valves connected to the new systems)
- Removed more than 200 temporary structures
- Inspected and repaired more than 275,000 linear feet of piping
- Conducted more than 44,000 radiographs
- Installed wet gas scrubber on cat cracking unit and new frac tower on Cat 3
- Complete rebuild of PS3B, Cat 1 and repositioning of Alky units
- New site wide transportation system reducing the total number of vehicles allowed in the refinery
- Opened Texas City office, which moved 400 workers offsite
- Built new Employee Services Building with lockers, medical, training and USW offices
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