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   Spills·NOAAORR-62521979-09-01 00:00Z → cancelled 1979-09-15 00:00Z
   Deer park, texas
   Chevron Hawaii; Deer Park, Texas · Gulf of Mexico

   Chevron Hawaii; Deer Park, Texas.
   Deer Park, Texas.
   1. On September 1, 1979, at 1412, the SS Chevron Hawaii exploded, burned, and sank while discharging cargo at the Deer Park Shell Oil Company terminal on the south side of the Houston ship channel. The cargo of catalytic cracker feedstock and Santa Maria crude oil spilled into the sea as the fire burned for ten hours. Lightning apparently ignited accumulated cargo vapors on the deck of the vessel. None of the cargo tanks had been gas-freed. The explosion was so powerful that a 5 foot by 7 foot hull fragment from the burning vessel penetrated the roof of a Shell Oil Company petroleum product shore tank located 600 feet inland from the vessel. The contents of that shore tank, approximately 26,000 barrels of ethyl alcohol, ignited and burned as well. As the fire spread into a nearby barge slip, four barges that were discharging cargo caught fire. Three of these barges exploded and sank. No [...]
   2. COMMODITY: SANTA MARIA CRUDE OIL, CATALYTIC CRACKER FEEDSTOCK.
   3. POSITION 29.700N 095.133W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6252: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6252