More on a Trial Related to the BP Texas City Explosion: Suggestions for flare at BP plant date to 1977
From the Houston Chronicle…
GALVESTON — Plant managers, both before and after BP acquired the Texas City refinery in 1998, thought a flare to burn off excess flammable vapors should have been added to a unit involved in the deadly March 2005 blast.
For the rest of the story see:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5127531.html
Also, for more info see a Forbes article:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/11/ap4105419.html