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To: croesus1111 who wrote (29291)	3/24/2005 1:43:40 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 110194

I think the only role the maintenance workers play in the BP explosion was as victims, as the isomerization technicians would have been in an underground control room. These maintenance workers, who are usually contract workers from outside the refinery, are watched suspiciously by refinery engineers who fear damage to their precious refinery equipment. While working on the adjacent coker and cracker, according to BP, they would be close enough to die if the isomerization unit blew up, but not close enough to have any affect on it themselves. It will be interesting to see what they discover, but I think the safe bet is on an excessive run-time past the last isomerization unit overhaul. All the unit needs is a small loss of containment due to corrosion and this is the natural result. .