{"id":2654,"date":"2011-12-01T15:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T22:29:17","slug":"an-update-on-the-san-antonio-refinery-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/01\/an-update-on-the-san-antonio-refinery-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the San Antonio Refinery Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/30\/explosion-and-fire-reported-at-san-antonio-refinery\/\">fire yesterday at a refinery<\/a> in San Antonio was a result of vaporizing kerosene, according to owners of the plant. The company says that a contractor was installing drain tubing and dislodged a valve, &#8220;which allowed a small quantity of kerosene to spray.&#8221; That kerosene vaporized and caught fire.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The fire was completely contained within the crude unit,&#8221;\u00a0Mary Rose Brown,\u00a0Senior Vice President of Administration at NuStar Energy, which owns the refinery, said in an emailed statement. &#8220;Fortunately, we were able to begin spraying the unit with water immediately and the the San Antonio Fire Department arrived within five minutes and quickly extinguished the fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company and San Antonio Fire Department say there were no injuries. NuStar said that the refinery will remain closed for now, but that when it re-opens they&#8217;ll send an update. NuStar purchased the refinery from AGE earlier this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: NuStar released a statement this afternoon that the refinery &#8220;did not sustain significant damage&#8221; and that the refinery will resume operations tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident did not\u00a0 have a major impact to production,&#8221; the company said, and &#8220;we have invested tens of millions of dollars in improvements at the refinery<strong> <\/strong>since acquiring it in April.&#8221; The company also thanked their employees and the San Antonio Fire Department for their efforts to put out the fire safely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire yesterday at a refinery in San Antonio was a result of vaporizing kerosene, according to owners of the plant. The company says that a contractor was installing drain tubing and dislodged a valve, &#8220;which allowed a small quantity of kerosene to spray.&#8221; That kerosene vaporized and caught fire. &#8220;The fire was completely contained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[52,21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}