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The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30-inch (76 cm) diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 miles (3.2 km) west of San Francisco International Airport [4] near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue. [5]
At 10:32am on June 16, 1976, a workman operating a skip loader in the median near the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Bagley Avenue struck an 8 inches (200 mm) gas pipeline owned by Standard Oil Company of California (now Chevron Corporation). Gasoline under 600 pounds per square inch (4,100 kPa) of pressure sprayed into the air and over ...
Sketch of the accident site. The San Bernardino train disaster (sometimes known as the Duffy Street incident), was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: a runaway train derailment on May 12, 1989; and the subsequent failure on May 25, 1989, of the Calnev Pipeline, a petroleum pipeline adjacent to the tracks which was ...
It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California. February 21, 1978 - An explosion & fire at a Rialto pipeline tank farm injured a passerby. [13] February 9, 1980 - A tank farm fire in Kern County. [14] April 10, 1989 – An explosion and fire occurred in a cracking column at the Chevron Richmond refinery.
Nine years ago, when an aging oil pipeline ruptured near the coast of Santa Barbara County, an inky darkness spread over the waters. The massive slick of oil engulfed and killed hundreds of marine ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) -A section of the oil pipeline that burst off the Southern California coast was displaced 105 feet (32 meters) across the ocean floor, officials said on Tuesday ...
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
The company that operates the pipeline that spilled an estimated 3,000 barrels of oil into the Pacific Ocean off California has an 800-page manual on handling an oil spill - but it is unclear ...