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Required fields Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA on Thursday reported a storage tank overpressure event while working to restart its refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, after a major storm forced a shutdown. While preparing to restart the refinery following the winter storm, Storage Tank 948 received flush from Vacuum Distillation Unit 2 and experienced an overpressure event which resulted in VOCs [volatile organic compounds] being released to atmosphere, the refinery said in a statement to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It said the emissions happened Wednesday. The refinery increased nitrogen flow to the tank, and maintained a nitrogen blanket following the event, it added.
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Local Hawke s Bay woman captures image of anticrepuscular rays off Marine Parade, Napier. Photo / Averil Mucalo
Local Hawke s Bay woman captures image of anticrepuscular rays off Marine Parade, Napier. Photo / Averil Mucalo
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After Thursday evening s thunderstorms had swept across Hawke s Bay and the North Island Averil Mucalo took this image of a weird light on Marine Parade.
According to MetService meteorologist Angus Hines this scene is of anticrepuscular rays. Essentially, the sun is directly behind the camera or the person standing there. The reason it looks like they re all converging to a single point is more of a perspective thing, and in fact, they are parallel rays, but as they go towards the horizon they look like they all converge.
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