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Chevron Fire Root Cause Analysis

Click here for the Root Cause Analysis of the January 15, 2007, fire at the Chevron Refinery. The County’s response is that “The County’s Hazardous Materials Program staff has followed-up on corrective action and confirms that Chevron has incorporated inherently safer substitute for the piping at that location and other locations where similar situations exist within the Crude Unit and is surveying other units where similar situations may exist to modify them appropriately.  Chevron is revising its procurement practices for new valves to ensure that they are leak tight when purchased as well as testing valves that have been serviced.”

 

What is scary is that the report fund that the “Swing out wash oil spool connected to the discharge of pump P-1165A was connected for a lengthy period of time (20+ years)” and “Management System –Standards, Policies or Administrative Controls (SPAC) Confusing or Incomplete.” How many other critical components of that refinery are over 20 years old?

 

And the report was prepared by Chevron, not by an objective expert. Is that the fox watching the henhouse, or what?

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