Apocalyptic hell fire at petroleum plant in Texas!
Explosions and fire erupted from a large gas plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas Tuesday afternoon. The plant is 30 miles southeast of Houston near the Houston ship channel. It's owned by Enterprise Products Partners and is part of one of the largest gas Fractionators complexes in the world!
The fires created a plume of smoke stretching for 30 miles, very close to downtown Houston and visible on doppler radar.
The cause was “a failure of some kind” on one of the pipelines that feeds liquids into the dome. Another source says the explosions occurred in an iso-octane unit.
The facility takes a mixed stream of natural gas liquids and process it into pure products like ethane, propane and butane.
The Enterprise plant sits on a giant hollowed out salt dome which is used to store more than 100 million barrels of NGLs and feed the nation’s biggest NGL pipelines.
The late billionaire Dan Duncan built Enterprise into the nation’s largest gas processor and pipeline operator. In 2001 he acquired the Mont Belvieu assets, which reportedly include 30 salt dome caverns, the biggest NGL storage center in the world.
Enterprise added a fourth fractionator at Mont Belvieu late last year to handle supply growth from the Eagle Ford FRACKING opp in South Texas.
Raw video of trucks catching fire at Mont Belvieu plant
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