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Literary work copyright pending # 1-693297794 Bp Texas City Explosion: Author Enrique Gonzales
This literary writing is about the British Petroleum Texas City Explosion that occurred on March 23, 2005 in Texas City, Texas. A Gasoline refinery was in the process of an especially dangerous procedure: re-starting a unit that had been down for repairs. Fifteen workers within fifty yards of the blast were returning from lunch after celebrating one hundred days of no accidents, returning to work and Unaware that eleven of the group would die shortly in one instant, from a sheer shock wave with a tremendous blunt force that would shatter their bones completely. Welding inspector Arthur Ramos noticed a terrible malfunction nearby. And immediately called a co-worker on his phone leaving a message stating (This is Art Critical, Critical) the last words he ever spoke. I Enrique Gonzales heard this message on Arts telephone, which was found in the debris after the tragedy and returned to his wife. It was a shocking, large vapor cloud the size of a football field Arturo had seen. Deep inside the blast proof control room engineers quietly proceeded to restart the refinery. With out warning fuel from a blowdown stack erupted like a volcano and created a large vapor cloud. A truck parked nearby with the engine running malfunction because of the vapors in the air and backfired, igniting the cloud of dangerous gas. The hydrocarbon isomerisation Unit., used to produce high octane fuel was the source of the explosion. The existing safety equipment did not work and the control room operators were not aware of the boiling fuel about to explode and instantly kill eleven construction workers employed by a company contracted by Jacobs Engineering. My story comes from a forklift driver who was working very near the explosion. His wife Sandra Ibarra was also there, she was working in the Jacobs work trailer 50 yards from the center of the blast. Joes height sitting on the forklift tractor was his a blessing for life to continue because the shockwave traveled low to the ground at speed of sound. Sandra survived the blast because she stood behind a metal cabinet in the work trailer. She would lay in critical condition for two weeks at a Galveston hospital her body torn and crippled from the blast. A hero was born that unforgettable day. Fearless and no concern for his own safety, or burning alive from the fires that raged before his eyes. He instinctively knocked fire balls out of the sky with his arms, and moved burning vehicles from the area before they exploded. Joe Ibarra gave me that testimony in tears at the Galveston hospital, as my mother in-law and wife visited him to pray for his wife. Five years later after the state of Texas fined and imposed modifications and changes to the refinery. BP continues to be negligent when it comes to safety within their refineries, and most of there other endeavors as well. For example the accident in the Gulf Coast of Mexico off shore oil well, that leaked thousands of barrels of oil, killed eleven oil workers. British Petroleum should be reprimanded, because they were not willing to make changes ordered by the courts. I have access to 1000's of public documents from the United States Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board, and will release all this information in my book BP Texas City Explosion written by Enrique Cabecera Gonzales. Again BP is unwilling to make expensive modifications to its many industries, this multibillion dollar company destroyed the Gulf of Mexicos. ecological, economic and environmental beauty. I'm obligated to tell the public that many problems existed. In the

investigation that followed for example, some monitoring stations within the control room were not being used and not optimizing the control rooms capability to detect danger and alarm personal. What baffled survivors of the victims and the public were why didnt engineers evacuate all personal from the area before restarting the refinery? It is unjustifiable to believe that the construction workers were not informed that the plant was being refueled and quietly began the process. There is a big chance that charges may be filed against BP for its negligence. The workers were doomed the instant the refueling process began.