One missing after fire at Texas natural gas plant
Mont Belvieu, TX, United States (AHN) – One worker remains missing after a natural gas processing plant in eastern Texas exploded on Tuesday.
The massive blast happened at a storage facility in Mont Belvieu owned by Enterprise Products Partners, the nation’s largest provider of crude oil, natural gas and petrochemicals.
Flames continued burning at the complex 35 miles east of Houston until early evening. Enterprise said it allowed the fire to burn out and that the blaze posed no danger to the community.
There were no injuries reported.
Homes near the plant were not evacuated but Highway 146 was closed.
The cause of the explosion is still unknown. The main facilities in the complex such as delivery terminals on the Houston Ship Channel and natural gas liquids fractionators were not damaged.
Fractionation is the separation of mixed natural gas liquids into ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane and natural gasoline, which Enterprise delivers in more than 49,000 miles of pipeline. The company operates a total of 19 fractionation plants.
The Mont Belvieu complex contains 25 salt dome storage caverns and was purchased by Enterprise in 2002. The company began constructing new facilities in the complex last summer to accommodate growing production from the Eagle Ford Shale.
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