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PIPELINE ACCIDENTS
This is a list of pipeline accidents.
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Outside the United States
- 1989 Sparks from two passing trains detonated gas leaking from an LPG pipeline near Ufa, Russia. Up to 645 people were reported killed on June 4, 1989.
- 1998 At Jesse, Nigeria in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline exploded killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom were scavenging gasoline on October 17, 1998. The worst of several similar incidents in this country.
- 2004 A major natural gas pipeline exploded in Ghislenghien, Belgium near Ath (thirty kilometres southwest of Brussels), killing at least 23 people and leaving 122 wounded, some critically on July 30, 2004
- May 12, 2006 - an oil pipeline ruptured outside Lagos, Nigeria. More than 150 people may have been killed.[1]
In the United States
- 1969 Low Pressure Natural Gas Distribution System, Gary, Indiana. June 3, 1969.
- 1969 High Pressure Natural Gas Pipeline, near Houston, Texas, September 9, 1969.
- 1970 Colonial Pipeline Company, Petroleum Products Pipeline, Jacksonville, Maryland, September 3, 1970.
- 1994 Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion and Fire Edison, New Jersey March 23, 1994.
- 1997 Pipeline Rupture and Fire, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 21, 1997
- 1998 Natural Gas Explosion and Fire, South Riding, Virginia, July 7, 1998
- 1998 Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture and Subsequent Explosion, St. Cloud, Minnesota, December 11, 1998
- 1999 Natural Gas Service Line and Rupture and Subsequent Explosion and Fire, Bridgeport, Alabama, January 22, 1999
- 1999 A pipeline in a Bellingham, Washington park leaked gasoline, vapor from leak exploded and killed 2 children and a 18 year old young man on June 10, 1999
- 2000 Hazardous Liquid Pipe Failure and Leak, Explorer Pipeline Company, Greenville, Texas, March 9, 2000
- 2000 Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture and Fire Near Carlsbad, New Mexico This Explosion Killed 12 Members Of The Same Family. August 19, 2000
- 2000 Rupture of Piney Point Oil Pipeline and Release of Fuel Oil Near Chalk Point, Maryland, April 7, 2000
- 2002 Rupture of Enbridge Pipeline and Release of Crude Oil near Cohasset, Minnesota July 4, 2002.
- 2003 Excavation Damage to Natural Gas Distribution Line Resulting in Explosion and Fire, Wilmington, Delaware, July 2, 2003.
References
- ^ Probe ordered after Nigeria blast, May 13 2006, BBC News
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