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Liquefied gas Horton tanks similar to the six spherical tanks involved in the San Juanico disaster LPG bullet tanks. There were 48 tanks of this type in the Pemex plant. Note how this modern installation incorporates some of the lessons learned from San Juanico: an uncongested, well ventilated area, with the horizontal tanks in a parallel cluster configuration, which minimizes the effects of ...
A dual fuel LPG-powered Ford Falcon taxicab in Perth, Australia. Tank cars in a Canadian train for carrying liquid petroleum gas by rail. Liquefied petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, n -butane and isobutane.
Kandla-Gorakhpur LPG pipeline (KGPL) is an under-construction gas pipeline project in India. It has a total length of 2,805 kilometres (1,743 mi) [3] stretching from Kandla port in Gujarat to the city of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh via Madhya Pradesh. The project cost is estimated to be ₹ 9,000-10,000 crore. [5][1][2] It is constructed by IHB ...
The Chala LPG tanker disaster was a road transport accident that occurred on August 27, 2012, on Indian National Highway 17 (now NH 66) at Chala in the Kannur District of India's Kerala State. The accident occurred when an Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) LPG road tanker hit a road lane divider, overturned and exploded, starting several ...
Visakhapatnam gas leak. The Visakhapatnam gas leak, also referred to as the Vizag gas leak, was an industrial accident that occurred at the LG Polymers chemical plant in the R. R. Venkatapuram village of the Gopalapatnam neighbourhood, located at the outskirts of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, during the early morning of 7 May 2020.
Indane website. Indane[3][4] is a subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation which is under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas of the government of India. It is the world's second largest government-owned subsidiary responsible for manufacturing LPG. [5] The brand was conceived in 1964 to bring modern cooking to Indian kitchens.
27 August 2012, Chala, India – The Chala LPG tank truck disaster: An LPG tank truck road accident in the state of Kerala caused 20 fatalities among the bystanders. 13 June 2013, Geismar, Louisiana, U.S. – The Williams Olefins explosion killed two plant operators when a propane heat exchanger burst open. [40]
The natural gas industry in India began in the 1960s with the discovery of gas fields in Assam and Maharashtra (Mumbai High Field). As on 31 March 2018, India had estimated crude oil reserves of 594.49 million metric tonnes (Mt) and natural gas reserves of 1339.57 billion cubic metres of natural gas (BCM). [2][3] India imports 82% of its oil ...