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Houston, TX: BP is facing a lawsuit brought by residents of Texas who allege that one of the company's oil refineries located in Texas City released 500,000 pounds of chemicals, including some 17,000 pounds of the carcinogen benzene, into the air between April 6 and May 16. The leak resulted from a malfunction in the hydrocracking unit called an ultracracker.

The incident happened just before the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 people.

The Texas City refinery incident reportedly spewed chemicals into the atmosphere for 40 days without public discloser. People who live in the surrounding areas are reporting illness.

This is not the first significant indicent at the plant. In 2005 it was the site of a deadly explosion that killed 15 people.

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UPDATE 1-Texas AG asked to probe BP refinery pollution

Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:17pm EDT

 * Probe stems from Texas refinery unit breakdown

 * Malfunction released 500,000 pounds of excess pollution

 * Texas AG already looking at previous Texas City plant

 (Updates with further comment from TCEQ)

 By Erwin Seba

 HOUSTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Texas pollution regulators
have asked the Texas attorney general's office to probe a
40-day period of excess pollution in April and May at BP Plc's
(BP.L)(BP.N) giant Texas City, Texas, refinery, a spokesman
said on Tuesday.

 "We referred it to the attorney general on the 23rd," said
Terry Clawson, a spokesman for the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.

 A spokesman for Texas Attorney Greg Abbott said he had no
information immediately available about the matter.

 The unusual referral stems from a 40-day breakdown in April
and May of a portion of a hydrocracker at BP's 437,080 barrel
per day (bpd) Texas City refinery, which was the site of a
deadly explosion in 2005, which killed 15 workers and injured
180 other people.

 According to a report in the Galveston County Daily News,
the 40-day malfunction led to the release of 500,000 pounds of
chemicals such as benzene into the air, exceeding permitted
levels for the refinery.

 The Texas probe has come at the same time BP faces federal
criminal and Congressional investigations into April's
Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.

 A BP spokesman said he was not familiar with the Texas City
refinery probe.

 "If there is an investigation, we're cooperating fully,"
said BP spokesman John Barnes. Abbott is already in talks with BP to settle a lawsuit filed last year for excess pollution from the refinery between 2005 and 2008. When Abbott filed that case against BP, he said the company was liable for more than $100 million in fines for pollution at the refinery. "The case was referred to the attorney general's office because there is a pending case against BP at the AG's office,"Clawson added.
  (Reporting by Erwin Seba; editing by Andre Grenon)



 
    
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UPDATE 1-Texas AG asked to probe BP refinery pollution