Talk:Murphy Oil USA refinery spill

Post on Nola.com from an Refinery Worker at Chalmette Refineries
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"I work for a refinery as an operator. Before every hurricane we fill empty tanks with water to keep them down. If a tank has less of a level than the water around it, it will float. Also, oil floats ontop of water, so an oil spill will not follow street lines. If Murphy's tank was filled with crude oil, then that oil was not seperated into the various products. Those products contain various hazards before processing i.e. H2S (which makes it sour crude), benzene (which causes cancer) etc. Some VOC's (volatile organic compounds) would evaporate with ordinary temperatures. The compounds that would be left in the soil/house would be the heavier hydrocarbons. I am not a chemical engineer. But this I know.....someone needs to consult experts on our behalf."

"The facts are I worked for a company that performed gas freeing of Vessels .We worked in refinery's and Ships. The oil that was spilled in the industry is sometime called sour crude or Bunker C.Please read the msds sheet then you will see why this product is so harmfulI Know because i cleaned tanks with this product. I know the Hazards and the prolonged enviormental issues. Murphy should have filled the tanks with water. I seen Refinery's move these tanks you know how they move themthey fill the contaiment levee with water in float them no shit thats how they move them around in the Tank Farm"

--Kunzite 08:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)