100th Anniversary HP Flashback LEE NICHOLS, VP, Content/Editor-in-Chief Excerpts from the 1960s: Petrochemicals rise in prominence and new know-how in refining processes Old units do explode! O. A. Pipkin, January 1960 This is the full story of the explosion that rocked the refinery of Cities Service in January 1959-the result of a series of human errors. Who would have thought that such a potential hazardhttp://www.HydrocarbonProcessing.com