The Chevron Richmond Refinery issued a community warning as a tall plume of black smoke rose from the refinery and above the East Bay Friday afternoon.
The warning was level one, the lowest on the scale, and was issued because the smoke was visible, Chevron Richmond said in a Facebook post.
The post said the smoke was from “flaring activity due to an upset at a process unit.”
Flares are important to the refinery’s safe operations, the announcement said, and are used in refineries to relieve pressure during refining processes. There was no information immediately available about how long the flaring was expected to continue.
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And here it is a Spare the Air day… rats!
Sounds like a little O.T. this weekend.
“Flares are important to the refinery’s safe operations, the announcement said, and are used in refineries to relieve pressure during refining processes.”
Sounds more like crappy design to me. Probably just cheaper to poison the locals.
Spare the Air, can’t cook out. Flex Alert, I know no one has said can’t cook in but I consider my range to be a major appliance which is on the “no” list. What kind of wine goes with Captain Crunch?
Oh, and the Chevron flaring, lovely, just lovely. Go renewable.
“This is a level one because the smoke is visible” If there’s nothing visible they don’t tell anyone, they just let us all take it in.
And I bet all you tree huggers drive cars and heat your houses etc… lol
Caused by an “upset?” Really? That’s the sanitized jargon now?
Looking at the location of the Flare, it’s probably a Hydrogen compressor at the ISOMAX unit.
maybe at the fcc unit.