{"id":55,"date":"2005-12-11T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2005-12-11T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T08:37:03","slug":"uk-fuel-depot-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/55\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Fuel Depot Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/4517962.stm\">Reports<\/a> have been coming in about an enormous explosion at a fuel depot in Hemel Hempstead, north of London:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three large explosions have rocked a fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire shooting flames hundreds of feet into the sky. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Buncefield depot is a major distribution terminal operated by Total and part-owned by Texaco, storing oil, petrol and well as kerosene which supplies Luton airport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a risk engineer in the oil and gas business and all that, here&#8217;s my take on it:  the root cause is a human error (most probably someone not following procedures) made during a non-routine operation (most probably maintenance).  In short, somebody did something he was not supposed to when trying to fix something.  Let&#8217;s see if I&#8217;m right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports have been coming in about an enormous explosion at a fuel depot in Hemel Hempstead, north of London: Three large explosions have rocked a fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire shooting flames hundreds of feet into the sky. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/55\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}