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State had active oil and or gas wells as of April 2015 but no accidents have been uncovered. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] June 13, 2010 - Lightning struck a tank of gasoline at the Colonial Pipeline Company tank farm in Greensboro, and ignited a major blaze.
2013: On October 17, a 36-inch natural gas pipeline ruptured southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta. An estimated 16.5 million cubic meters of natural gas were released. The rupture did not result in a fire, there were no injuries and no evacuation was required. A fracture in a pipe elbow was the identified for the reason of the failure. [38]
The gas leak was caused by gas being diverted into an older, defective gas main in the area. [62] April 29. In Edgewood, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, a house was blown apart by an explosion of natural gas which leaked into the basement through a drain. One resident was killed and two others injured.
View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; ... List of pipeline accidents in the United States (1950–1969) 1970-1999
June 4, 1989: The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on 4 June 1989, in Iglinsky District, Bashkir ASSR, Soviet Union, when an explosion killed 575 people and injured 800 more. The explosion was caused by a faulty pipeline transporting natural gas. April 22, 1992: 1992 Guadalajara explosions in the downtown district of ...
Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch (56-cm) pipeline buried under a field, sending more than 51 million cubic feet of natural gas hissing into the air.
The following is only a sample of natural gas and petroleum product accidents for this era. Gas and oil leaks and explosions were not tracked in an organized fashion except by fire marshals. Many leaks, fires, and explosions were not recorded unless they occurred in population centers with newspapers to report them. [1]
November 6 – A natural gas-fueled explosion fatally injured one person and destroyed a home in South Jordan, Utah. Enbridge found a leak about 150 feet northeast of the home on a 4-inch diameter Aldyl A natural gas main it owned and operated. [49] November 11 - Enbridge Line 6 was found to be leaking crude oil, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin ...