Operations at Sunoco Logistics' Nederland, Texas, crude oil terminal were near normal on Sunday as authorities investigated a Friday night flash fire that injured seven contract workers, a company spokesman said, via http://www.reuters.com/.
Four of the workers were taken to burn centers in Houston, Galveston and Beaumont, Texas on Friday, said Sunoco Logistics spokesman Jeffrey Shields. The other three were treated for minor injuries and released.
"Operations today are pretty much near normal," Shields said of the giant southeast Texas terminal on the Gulf Coast that can store up to 24 million barrels of crude oil and is connected to a 6,000-mile (9,700-km) pipeline network stretching through the Southern and Midwestern United States.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has begun an investigation into the fire that broke out as the workers were preparing to connect pipe to new crude storage tanks at the Nederland terminal.
