{"id":19466,"date":"2026-03-24T11:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19466"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:14:33","slug":"explosion-shuts-down-valero-refinery-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/03\/24\/explosion-shuts-down-valero-refinery-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion shuts down Valero refinery in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: An explosion and fire have forced the shutdown of a refinery operated by Valero Energy Corp in Texas, United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Reuters on Tuesday, the blast occurred in a diesel hydrotreater unit at the facility, located in eastern Texas near the Louisiana border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refinery processes around 380,000 barrels of oil per day, while the affected unit produces approximately 47,000 barrels of diesel daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion was reportedly felt up to 11 miles (18 km) away. The cause of the incident remains unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighting efforts continued for hours after the blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: An explosion and fire have forced the shutdown of a refinery operated by Valero Energy Corp in Texas, United States. According to Reuters on Tuesday, the blast occurred in a diesel hydrotreater unit at the facility, located in eastern Texas near the Louisiana border. The refinery processes around 380,000 barrels of oil per day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19468,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466\/revisions\/19468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}