Animation of April 26, 2018, Explosion and Fire at the Husky Energy Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin
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You know what I love about this channel? Every single time I'm about to click a video, I know I'm about to be entertained and informed without being sold to.
Thank you
And that's because we are already sold...
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The citizens of the United States pay taxes... So the channel has a stable revenue source, so no needing of shoving ads into the video...
Also, unable to leave my screen for 20-30 minutes.
Tax dollars at their best
I don't mind ads. Time might be a commodity but 6 or 12 seconds of advertising every 15 minutes is a small price to pay if the content is good and content creators deserve to be paid for their work. That's why I consider people who use ad blockers to be leeches, nor can I understand why they readily admit to using them - if you were a thief you wouldn't tell everyone you met would you?
the quality of the animations is getting better and better everytime. really great work.
They are starting to get to that point where it’s hard to tell that it’s an animation at some points. Excellent work on USCSB.
They need more then 1 each 6 months or so.
Agreed. The earlier animations are laughable by this standard.
@@SoapyTitsWank they were laughable,
but the true stories of chain of event mistakes and oversight leading to real disasters were so interesting that the CGI didn't matter.... as long as it is true.
@@michaelmccarthy4615 So what we need is more accidents? Thanks to constant cost cutting you shouldn't be disappointed.
Huge props to the incredible first responders who absolutely destroyed that fire!
A fabulous example of the refinery fire team and the local fire department working together to protect the city and the rest of the plant
Was expecting an evacuation after I got off work but they did a dang good job on getting the fire out.
"Ignatenko get on his hose!"
Wizbro best response to a refinery fire I’ve seen on this channel
It was really interesting seeing the strategy’s
That transition from map to overview at 3:08 was slick as heck.
yeah I had to replay that again
marvelous
Yeah it was! Never thought I would see you here either
*Hol the fuck up.* I never knew you were interested in this type of stuff Max Box!
And then they kept the graph paper grid as the texture on all the objects before morphing it to realistic colors. Very, very slick indeed!
I’m glad some of my taxes go to this channel.
Automatiic hell yeah brother
HAHAHAHA
I am also glad some of your Taxes went to paying for this lol.
I've watched every video on this channel and I often wonder how if just one person who works at a plant saw one of these videos and was able to use the info they learned to prevent an accident it would easily justify the likely small amount of money spent on making them. The amount of humans who've been killed by the accidents in this channel's list of videos is really sad. Lots of human error to blame.
Eric_of_le We watch these videos all the time in safety meetings to learn from past mistakes made.
This accident is very similar to the 2015 Exxon refinery fire also investigated by CSB. Both involved refinery processes that depended on slide valves, which failed to properly seal catalyst and gases in a refinery unit when closed.
was just gonna say. that accident sounded really familiar...
In both cases it was the same type of refinery unit that suffered the exact same failure where one of the slide valves eroded and coulndn't maintain the catalyst barrier. However in this case there was no mention of the steam purging of the reactor which means either this procedure wasn't used or the valve was in such bad shape that the barrier was gone within minutes, before the steam was intoduced.
Also for anyone looking for the video we're talking about: czcams.com/video/JplAKJrgyew/video.html
would think over all these decades, these penny pinching multi-billion dollar oil conglomerates would put a simple redundant system on everything or at least some sort of simple monitor that can detect if it didn't close fully such as the end/tip of the slide valve needs to make contact with a sensor on the opposite end so this can let you know there was a lack of contact whether due to mechanical issue (didn't slide close all the way) or corrosion.. or simply, should be 2 slide valves that close per side, so if one fails, at least there's a backup.
@@LycanWitch Generally there are failsafes of some kind and backups for critical systems designed in from the start, but the problem is once that's built maintaining it becomes just "something that costs money" with no visible benefits to management. After all the machine is working fine, why do we need to test and maintain and upgrade these safety systems when they don't even make us any money? It's the same shitty reasoning behind why data breaches at major companies happen so often - if your IT Security team is doing their job well *nothing happens*, and that's good! But boy, just try convincing upper management that you need a budget when the end result of your efforts is "nothing happens". This is why we need goddamn regulations with teeth, in all sorts of industries.
I thought this was another animation of the same thing
"At least it was just the one explosion"
"At least the asphalt didn't get everywhere."
*Asphault catches fire
"..."
At least we saved money resurfacing the lot?
How does asphalt find an ignition source inside a rafinery facility is beyond me. From the videos it looks like there have to be dozens of open flame fires inside every facility running nonstop.
The asphalt may have flowed into an electrical source and shorted it, or melted/flowed through some insulation and hit a steam tracing pipe.
@@kubeek When you have a huge volume of flammable material in a large industrial plant there's bound to be something to set it off. There's all kinds of hot electrical and fuel-burning machines in a place like this, and no one planned for flammable asphalt to be sprayed all over the place. The asphalt was also heated, so it's possible it was producing flammable vapor depending on the temperature of it. Fortunately they handled this well and it seems nobody died.
idk why i came back to this almost three years later...but i’m from superior and there was one major explosion but like four smaller ones. got 1.5 days off of school and still had to make them up.
Jeez, I'm not trying to sound like a broken record, but these visual effects continue to amaze me. Those cinematic camera shots and realism are the most polished I've seen from CSB and the channel already had amazing videos. And of course hats off to a legend in the CSB community, Sheldon Smith.
Those things impressed me as well, man
This is better than tv
It is TV... new TV... the future of all TV
Root canal is better than TV. Chemotherapy is... no worse than TV. (Source: recent experience with all three).
This is WAYYY better than TV.
the dry factual nature is refreshing compared to similar TV shows that try to pump up the DRAMA. Also, unlike most TV shows, this has 0 qualms about naming the companies involved because they have no reason to fear a lawsuit.
Another slide valve failure wtf
It looks like all of the locations need to change them within a given time frame. If they do not, it needs to be priority #1 in a database to send a notification. It seems like almost all of these fires we see on here come from these valves at fcc's.
Seems to me there should be a proper isolation valve between the FCC and regenerator that is closed when the unit is offline, rather than relying on the slide valve to prevent flammable vapour flow.
@@jhonbus based on these companies just on these videos, that same valve would be lacking in preventative maintenance too..
@@CumminsCat Agreed, this is why I think they need redundancy valves so if one fails the other has a chance to still keep a seal. That would give better longevity until a maintenance review actually happens
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The problem with isolation valves in this scenario is the temperatures.
It requires metal valve seats, which seal quite poorly (as a seal is usually the product of squeezing or deforming a malleable material). The are usually triple offset butterflies (which inhibit flow significantly and will suffer worse erosion problems).
They are using the correct equipment, however I bet they reduced the valve internals’ inspection regime to reduce downtime. Result, badly worn valve performing poorly.
It's nice to see how the emergency response worked, and the exact steps they took to extinguish the fire.
The city's evacuation response was also VERY prompt and comprehensive, they issued preliminary warnings in areas of the city downwind of the refinery in case of further explosions and had hotlines running to get more information out. I actually slept through the initial explosion, woke up at 1pm and thought it was 1am because the sky was black.
*my dad actually was working there when the explosion went off, thankfully he was in the break trailer*
I find it interesting how fires are corralled and surrounded almost as if it were a military operation.
That is the best way to plan to fight fires... all plans will sound military if it's organised enough. And organisation is what stops fires spreading... I would say that this is an example of good planning for fires.
I bet firefighters really hate this. Much easier to do with civilians.
Its also why plants like these, nuclear, etc. usually have their own fire crews
SteelWarrior115 indeed, but it was wise of the refinery crew to drill with the municipal firefighters, it made making and executing the plan a whole lot easier, which in turn made the response go smoothly.
That’s how the fire dept operates. It’s a paramilitary organization.
This approaches photo-realism. Amazing water, fire and smoke physics.
Seriously, can like Discovery or History channel pick these guys up and make a full fledged series about these incidents? I'd binge watch the hell out of that.
good ass job to the guys at Abbott Animation! this one was soooo good looking and the particle physics were ultra convincing!
Many thanks!
@@Abbottanimation3D legends!!! keep it up yall :)
@@Abbottanimation3D What software do you use? I created refinery safety videos for BP/AMOCO back in the '90s using 3DSMax and various plugins, but have been out of the business since then. This looks 1000x better :)
@@billgaudette5524 Thank you! It can be amazing what technology allows us to do now. We used Autodesk Maya, rendered with VRay Next. Phoenix FD was used for the fire/smoke/water sims. And it was composited in Black Magic Fusion, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Premiere.
@@Abbottanimation3D Any which way, it's quite impressive, and not just with how good it looks. Videos like this may be entertaining for us non-industry folks, but they also help keep people alive who are in the industries affected by them. You've done an incredible job.
Stunning quality. No doubt this will be much more interesting for more people to watch now, though we are talking about serious accidents, the more that sees it the more awareness. And narrator voice is superb.
Yeah they do great work with these, and Sheldon Smith has a perfect voice for this kind of video
I really appreciate the invaluable work that USCSB does. This info saves lives, all around the globe. Cheers from Canada!
This is one of the few times nowadays where I feel proud as an American among our international friends. Enjoy!
@@Syclone0044 you should feel proud. In canada we dont have close to this level of transparency into industrial process safety accidents. Honestly here they try to cover them up
And Cheers from Cyprus! I just found out about this channel and I have to admit that their videos are very educational.
God this channel is amazing
I bet He appreciate that
@Klak Klak Nothing really. Just a figure of speach. Dooosshbag
Jerome Duffy exactly it is a good channel and nothing wrong with using the word god!!!!
Klak Klak you are one weird person.good .luck with the apocalypse and by the way it’s an expression used by illlions every day.... what is your major malfunction man!, give it a rest!!
@Klak Klak Bet you never felt a female. I can tell. You are a 50 yr old virgin. Good suck lucker.
OMG I LOVEEE THIS MAN'S VOICE!!!
Sheldon Smith. The champion of safety narration. 🏆
@@joeylawn36111 lol. Yes!!!!
Yes, it's very good for this sort of thing, clear, masculine with no nonsense.
It's a voice which says
"I wouldn't do that, If I were you..."
Sebastian Anders EXACTLY THIS
Damn the quality
Our nation's fire fighters (and all first-responders) are the BRAVEST and most selfless individuals. Thank you for all you do, everyday, everywhere, every time.
New videos yesssssss! Pour safety content allll over me.
What if safety content is actually a flammable hydrocarbon mixed with air?
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Don’t worry. I’m ExD rated
Bring on those disasters! 😈
Lol
Remember to wear Personal Protective Equipment appropriate for the content!
At least the plant got new pavement lol
@betatalk357 it would be nice to see our government care about and repair our broken infrastructure but unfortunately no! Our government would rather waste trillions of tax dollars on impeachment bs.
Thus devaluing our currency even more. 🤦♂️
@betatalk357 Well considering that it's almost been 80 years since WW2 and 243 years since 1776, WW3 is on the horizon within our generation
@@TheCanamman01 impeachment will pay for itself when trump stops diverting government money to its (failing) businesses (at inflated prices). (and it doesn't cost even millions, the investigations paid for themselves by catching criminals and making them pay for their crimes btw).
@@TheCanamman01 Forget impeachment, how about the tens of trillions on the worthless war in Afghanistan that we've been lied to about for 20 years and three administrations?
Gabriel Pettier Does Solara not ring any bells? Trump is diverting money back into the US. It is a process. While Trump is at least starting to help the US economy, the Dems haven’t shut up about impeachment for 3 years.
This channel is a form a digital Prozac. No matter how stressful or anxious of a day, a USCSB video puts me in a very relaxed state.
For all the people who want to express your appreciation for the CSB, please *call* your senators and representative and let them know. Calls get noticed, emails get ignored.
They probably don't even know it exists. If you bring it to their attention, they might cut funding.
But hey if we can throw the budget into the Ukraine money laundering scam, they would be covered forever.
These videos are awesome!
accurate, informative, & engrossing.
This is the weirdest binge ever.
Oh man if you’re new, you’ve got a LOT of awesome material. Hours and hours. Don’t miss the T2 Laboratories one. It’s older but perhaps my favorite. Two college dropouts built their own pressure reactor vessel for creating high octane gasoline additives... and then ramped up production beyond their woefully inadequate design specs. After a failure in the cooling system which merely used municipal water, a runaway chemical reaction occurred, building pressure until that mofo let LOOSE. Needless to say, it did not end well. The security footage from miles away looks like an actual nuclear bomb going off.
0:16 these sound effects are on point.
2:00 !!!! ;)
@@CybershamanX idk why but that reminds me of halo
@@whutitdew Definitely have to have good sound design if you want to get people to feel the visceral impact of the events. ;)
CybershamanX Yeah I rewound that as soon as I saw it. It was remarkably accurate for an animation of an explosion, especially how quick (briefly) the flash lasted. Probably the most accurate I’ve ever seen in my life, video games included. (But I don’t have a state of the art game system so I don’t know if they’ve reached or exceeded this level yet).
@@Syclone0044 And then the sound of that hunk of metal impacting the storage tank. It's subtle and I didn't hear it the first time through, but once I did, it was perfect.
The level of animation in this one is on par with graphics/physics benchmark software, outstanding work Abbott Animation.
Wow. Those fluid simulations are on point!
Seriously. Did no one learn from Exxon when the exact thing happened to them? You’d think they’d pay attention more after what happened to Exxon
Dude, BP didn't learn from Piper Alpha burning which arguably led to Deepwater Horizon, these corporate types only care when it hits their pocket...
3:09 Did you notice the realistic quality of the right guy’s haircut?? They even did the hem stitching on the firefighter’s hood fabric!!! Insane!
I hope CSB has a bunch of uploads planned for 2020
What would you like to see? Leave comments above.
@@jeromeduffy9270 what wouldnt you like to see? theres plenty of footage just from texas. exxon incidents from baytown, ITC Deer Park, KMCO crosby, Kuraray Pasadena, TPC Port neches. tons of content to be brought.
Maybe they’ve been stockpiling a bunch of meaty content, waiting to drop it all on Christmas as a surprise for us disaster junkies
*Squee*
Ideally, they would have nothing to report because their work actually made a difference. Don't get me wrong, I like these reports too. But every one of these represents a serious accident in the petrochemical industry. It would be better if these sorts of things didn't happen so often.
As a "safety man" in an oil refinery i appreciate these videos.
Hi friends/fellow notification squad! The USCSB is probably my favorite part of the government and deserves more funding
More funding as well as more power to enforce recommendations
Thanks USCSB, not just for making the country safer through your behind-the-scenes work, but also for producing these videos to help us understand complex industrial failures and stay safer in our every day lives.
It's the voice of the narrator. It's perfect and completely Iconic to these great CSB re-enactments. Hope you can keep him on!
After seeing so many of these that have a horrific loss of life this one seems like a win for the home team.
This is probably one of the best channels on youtube.
A+ to the animation team! And the narrators voice is amazing too
indeed! was amazing
The one thing you can really appreciate from this video is how well planned the fire response was to this incident. Whether that be the company's incident response team itself having pre-planned this incident or a quick-thinker realizing that open area was the perfect place to cut off the fire's fuel supply. Brilliant strategy with a perfect ending, a completely extinguished fire in a matter of hours.
So glad no one was hurt. This video is very well illustrated and effectively demonstrated the functions of the various occurrences. Well done.
I thought he was going to say "in the end, 36 Husky employees.... were killed"
Nice to see you all here again.
To those of you at the USCSB, thank you for everything you do! Did any of you have any idea that this youtube channel would be nearly this popular?
I have never worked in a refinery or around any chemicals but I find this channel fascinating.
The lesson of this video: CHECK YO SLIDE VALVES!!!
And if one is eroded, replace them ASAP! Even if it means shutting the plant down for a time
dan96kid
Even more importantly, keep the levels up in both the reactor and the regenerator. The pressures on either tower can be adjusted to maintain those levels.
THEN, service both slide valves during the turnaround.
Riff would some kind of backup barrier system work, like a set of hinges doors that seal the stack? Then the slide valves can be checked and replaced safely
davyt0247
Definitely. A positive seal shut-off valve to back up slide valves would work. Just very expensive.
And.. use two valves for safety reasons.
Now THIS is what I want my taxes used for. Great work Abbot Animation!
Also, I love whoever did the sounds for this video. The noise was perfect!
Thank you! We do our best for the sound design when we can.
@@Abbottanimation3D You are legends! Really great work!
Tat smoke animation is the best I've seen.
1. that's a damn well-made animation u got there
2. *_THOSE SMOKE ANIMATIONS OMG_*
Very impressive emergency work.
Jack Sainthill this shows very clearly, working with the municipal firefighters is ALWAYS a great idea
Their fire team did an exceptional job. Good training video. Feel for the 46 with treatment and very thankful no casualties. Keep the videos coming CSB we use them in all our safety meetings.
This has shown the importance of post-incident / accident emergency response. The incident was scary, as it shouldn't happen, but things that go wrong will go wrong, you never know what happens and emergency response team should be able to deal with any incident professionally.
The production quality and the extreme focus on clarity is amazing. Thank you USCSB
I live in this town I was evacuated from my neighborhood that day. the animation of the refinery is spot on to the actual layout
So glad USCSB videos are back in production!
I absolutely love learning from this channel despite having a heavy fear of ever working in places that need to be inspected by the CSB. Mostly because it shows how easily human error or neglect can become catastrophic. Equipment failure is equally as scary. I'm glad improvements have been increasingly getting better each upload throughout the years! Always excited to see a new video from here :D
I love the animation sequence starting at 03:07 that transitions from the firefighters’ plan of attack, looking at a blueprint of the facility, to a 3D render of that map, and then finally into a ‘live-action’ shot. What a genius way to convey that chain of events!
Glad you liked it... though, there were no live action shots in this production. All CG. So we take that as a huge compliment.
This animation is a work of art!
USCSB Hyyyyype!
This is the second time this happens at a US refinery. Unbelievable.
(The first incident is also available on this channel.)
Yep. 2015 Explosion at ExxonMobil Refinery in Torrance, CA. Same failure.
I worked at a refinery and I was on their fire department. Brilliant disaster response and planning in this case. You hope this never happens, but it did, and the team did a fantastic job. Bravo!
Damn, the realism of the fire/smoke simulations is better than what you see in many movies... good job!
These videos are such an invaluable resource for safety in all different types of workplaces. Thank you for the work you do, CSB!! Keep it up!!
The animations get better by each video.
I can say, with out a single bit of hesitation or reserve, these videos and the information I've gained from the CSB have single handedly changed my perspective and perception of "arbitrary steps" annual inspections, and the routine following of industry best practices. This channel gives us a unique view into the shortcomings and failures of other people and projects that help us to learn from those mistakes so that we can keep from repeating them in the future.
I dont remeber who said it but "our failures should be celebrated and reviewed so we can better understand our success's". Keep up the awesome work guys.
YOU. ARE. SAVING. LIVES.
Having watched so many of these the way to fire team responded really shows they are learning how to make better decisions. usually it’s the local fire team had no training with these fires, or didn’t have access to proper equipment, but this time they tore that fire up
Superior work, as always. The quality of the animation has increased dramatically. As a resident of Port Neches, Texas, I am looking forward to the findings and animation of the TPC explosions and fires that occurred this month.
This was a real tough time for us folks living in Superior, glad you captured the experience.
Have you heard anything of the natural gas plant they want to install next spring?
Wow give the animation team a raise & the narrator a raise too
Yo...the animation of these videos have gotten MUCH better.
Getting close to photo realistic. . amazing. Thank you USCSB.
I absolutely love these videos. Thank you. The animation and narration is stunning and I love learning about all the different chemical plants.
Wow, didn’t even look animated. The smoke was incredible. Great job!
Another bedtime story! I’m sorry these terrible ‘accidents’ occur but glad USCSB are making the world safer and producing these fascinating videos.
I've lived in superior all my life. I was woken up by the explosion. The whole town went into a panic. I know several guys that work/worked there. It was sad, scary and chaotic day for everyone in town.
To be honest, I am surprised (and relieved) no one died in that. I can't imagine being there.
I would cry I hate explosions
Yeah i lived in billings park. I remember everything being shut down...pretty crazy
that animation was pretty lit... i'll show myself out now.
Whoever took over these animations should get a pay bonus or raise
The animation quality is so good! I'm glad you guys post this on CZcams. My engineering nerd friends and I love these videos
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Put the video at that moment and tell me if it doesn't look like a FRIKIN LIVE COVERAGE!!
Damm, the animation it's good.
Wow you’re right! Man that’s phenomenal, as a kid when I was 5, I remember walking into SEARS department store buying our first Commodore 64 computer, which my brother and I only used to play (primitive) video games. We dreamed of having an awesome car driving simulator, and as I grew up I thought “some day, video games will become so good, they’ll begin to merge and become indistinguishable from reality” but that also seemed unbelievable at the time, even though the trajectory of history makes it all but certain.
It’s mind blowing to sit here holding my paper-notepad-thin iPad and realize it’s happened.
I like how good the quality of the video is! A lot of work put in to it.
For someone studying chemical engineering this channel is absolutely pure gold.
Bravissimi.
On one hand notification squad and on the other oh god another one
Actually not nearly as bad as it could have been
It was handled pretty well.
Haha I was literally cringing halfway through, bracing myself for the “But, ....”
@@mikuhatsunegoshujin it was handled INCREDIBLY well: czcams.com/video/grOA7iUIxGY/video.html
Lmao
Yep, that's the power of having a plan for when things inevitably go wheels up. Despite all the preventative maintenance in the world, entropy always wins in the end, and you need to be able to handle the resulting clusterfuck, even if it's just an evacuation plan.
These videos are great really glad to see new content being published
These animations are so good! Thank you USCSB, from the Netherlands!
Graphics in this episode WERE GREAT!! I literally thought I was watching footage from a newscast and had to look closer. Great work!
The animation is really great. One tiny detail that would have been cool is if there was a delay for the sound of the explosion to reach the "camera" like they did with the shock wave.
Im trying to enter this industry as a process operator and watching these videos gives me topics to ask during my interviews lol.
Interviewer: "So do you have any questions?"
Me: "Whats the corrosion looking like on your slide valves?"
Don't expect to get hired asking these questions lol
Daniel Christian Rohrer Peters I’m just trying to show them that my number one concern is safety. Isn’t that what they teach, safety first?
@@icool247 hahahaha no, profit first of course.
As we can see here.
The mechanism here is not corrosion, it is erosion. And yes, safety is first and you should demonstrate that, but of you truly are serious just think of another question that is not so specific. Also chances are your interviewer will have zero clue.
Ruben GQ it was just a joke
I feel like I’m watching a movie-animations have improved so much!
That fire team was badass. Every team should learn from it.
Their animation game is on point!
what an animation! Seems that cooperation helped to control and extinguish the fire. Thanks for such useful videos.
I just happened to be travelling through Superior when the fire broke out. We were just east of town and saw the thick black smoke and even commented to my wife that "Now THAT is something big" I didn't know WHAT it was but knew it wasn't a run of the mill fire. It was the blackest smoke I've ever seen. Amazing no one was killed! Superior FD did a textbook job of containing and then going on the offensive very quickly to put it out. My guess is that the industry will adopt some of their tactics...
I am a chemical engineer and I work in a refinery...watching this videos is useful to keep an high level of attention. Personnel must be aware that it is a matter of seconds, and everything can be fucked up
These videos just get better and better 👍🏻
Jesus christ this looks so good, keep it up boys
I don't know why CZcams recommended this channel, but I'm glad it did.
The fluid physics and fire animations are top notch! I wonder what software they use. It is amazing how much the animations have improved over the years
this looks better than the helicopter footage of that day haha
2:32 you cannot differentiate between animation or real life video... incredible job.
This production quality is FANTASTIC! You guys are awesome!
Wow. HUGE graphic improvement 👏
Simple solution : Make plant management offices part of the refinery, by law.
Priorities will shift faster than you can say "hydrocarbon air mixture".
I don't know if they still do, but in the 80s Japan had something similiar, the CEO or company President's home had to be within a mile or two of their primary factory.