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Aliso Canyon SS 25 wellhead, December 17, 2015. Note subsidence craters at center, apparently from the attempts to plug the leaking well. The Aliso Canyon gas leak (also called Porter Ranch gas leak [1] and Porter Ranch gas blowout [2]) was a massive methane leak in the Santa Susana Mountains near the neighborhood of Porter Ranch in the city of Los Angeles, California.
The Southern California Gas Co. settled a lawsuit stemming from the 2015 Aliso Canyon facility gas leak, the largest natural gas leak in U.S. history.
The leak is releasing up to 110,000 pounds of gas per hour. An underground well-casing might have failed, pushing the pressurized gas to the surface. Severe natural gas leak in Los Angeles County ...
November 21, 2012 - Two men who suffered burns when a natural gas compressor station exploded in Dry Canyon. [211] January 22, 2013 – A natural gas well fire, in Roosevelt, Utah forces evacuations. [212] January 19, 2018 - A double tanker vehicle hauling gasoline exploded & burned on I-15 in Midvale UT. [213]
Gas leaks can damage or kill plants. [4] [5] In addition to leaks from natural gas pipes, methane and other gases migrating from landfill garbage disposal sites can also cause chlorosis and necrosis in grass, weeds, or trees. [6] In some cases, leaking gas may migrate as far as 100 feet (30 m) from the source of the leak to an affected tree. [7]
Since 2010, incidents like fires and explosions caused by natural gas leaks have occurred every 40 hours on average in the United States, according to the Public Interest Research Group.
This reservoir is the second-largest natural gas storage site in the western United States, with a capacity of over 86 billion cubic feet of natural gas. Currently it is one of four gas storage facilities owned by Southern California Gas, the others being the La Goleta Gas Field west of Santa Barbara, Honor Rancho near Newhall, and Playa del Rey.
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