Port Arthur Refineries and chemicals plants whent into shutdown mode after Hurricane Humberto made land fall on the thirteenth of September 2007 time it came ashore 3:45 AM this was a thursday Port Arthur TX lost electrical power through out the town and the refineries and chemical plants had to burn their product.
1st well bitch stop complaining and go live some where else you choose to live there they didnt put a gun in ur shit face and told you u have to live in p.a. ....2nd those flares dont burn any product they are transfering the product to tanks and burning the vapors.3 hahahahahahahahahahaha...4 hahahahaha........................
lucho15 9 months ago
Why compain about the emissions heading towards the residential area? The (Currently named Valero) refinery has been there since 1901.... Those house were built around the refinery. Not the other way around. Those residents CHOSE to move right there next to this place....
sawituptx 10 months ago
The product is not burned. Instead it is slopped back to the holding tanks where it can later be re-ran through the process.
gcrebel2008 1 year ago
This reminds me of the old saying, "kiss her where it stinks - Port Arthur Texas".
woodwired1 1 year ago
hell yah look at that money
railfelton 2 years ago
while it is true that flaring does negitivly affect the environment, it nessisary to prevent equipment damage from unit overpressure. also, liquid product (such as gasoline and diesel) is never burned in a flare. the reason for this is that if a liquid is sent up the flare stack it will begin to fall as soon as it exits the flare tip. this "beltching" is extreemly hazerdous as it often causes very large fires. flare systems are designed to catch and hold liquids while letting the vapors excape.
Xenoku 2 years ago
don't double post, you jerk!
nothingsquare 3 years ago
Those are vapor flares,they don't burn product.They are most likely burning because the plant has begun transferring product and when this is done, vapor must be burned off to release pressure.They raise gas prices because they CAN.If you think a refinery is burning product, you are out of your mind, because no amount of gas price raising would pay for that kind of loss.
jancar2012 4 years ago
Those are vapor flares.VAPOR flares. They are not designed to,nor do they burn product.When a refinery goes into shutdown mode, all product is transferred to shore tanks and all pipelines are pushed into those shoretanks. Empty tanks have product put into them,full tanks have some taken out and everything is evened out so as to prevent tank collapse.
jancar2012 4 years ago