MOSCOW (MRC) -- Investigations are continuing into an explosion that injured three people at an ExxonMobil-operated oilfield in North Texas over the weekend, according to Upstreamonline.
The explosion occurred in Gregg County, east of Dallas, at around 12:50pm on Saturday, according to local reports.
Details were unclear, but the Tyler Morning Telegraph quoted local law enforcement officials as saying the explosion was triggered when workers were welding a pipe that was thought to be clear of hydrocarbons.
Kenneth Shahan, 54, Brent Ellison, 26, and 25-year-old Antonio Exner were injured in the blast, according to the newspaper.
The Gregg County Fire Department and the Operational Safety & Health Administration are investigating.
As MRC wrote earlier, on 5 October 2012, ExxonMobil Corp. confined a fire that broke out at its Baytown, Texas refinery to a process unit. The complex has a 584,000 bbl/day refinery and two chemical plants that make butyl rubber and polypropylene (PP), making it the largest operating refinery in the US and one of the largest in the world.
ExxonMobil is the largest non-government owned company in the energy industry and produces about 3% of the world's oil and about 2% of the world's energy.
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