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Oil spill data are available on Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Spill Analysis website ; August 2001 through 2012 – Trinidad, earthquakes up to magnitude 5.3; February 2004 - Williams was fined $30,000 for a fire at a well in Parachute. [24] February 26, 2006 – Fire at a gas compressor station, southwest of Fort Lupton [25]
Kentucky has thousands of unplugged oil and gas wells, each spewing methane into the air and contributing heavily to greenhouse gas emissions. Kentucky to get $25M to plug old oil and gas wells ...
Oil well fires are oil or gas wells that have caught on fire and burn. They can be the result of accidents, arson, or natural events, such as lightning. They can exist on a small scale, such as an oil field spill catching fire, or on a huge scale, as in geyser-like jets of flames from ignited high pressure wells. A frequent cause of a well fire ...
February 24 – The "Big Inch" crude oil pipeline ruptured in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, with the crude spill killing fish along a 12-mile (19 km) stretch of the Laurel Hill creek. [58] July 31 – The "Big Inch" crude oil pipeline leaked, then exploded, near Longview, Texas. 2 pipeline workers were killed, and 2 other injured. [59]
A crude oil pipeline pump station caught fire northwest of Texas City, Texas. Texas City fire officials said that company officials reported that there had been issues with the pump station over the weekend. [307] January 26 – A 20-inch Enterprise Products ATEX pipeline carrying ethane exploded and burned, in Brooke County, West Virginia ...
Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.
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He developed many patents and designs for the tools and techniques of oil firefighting. His father, Karl T. Kinley, attempted to extinguish an oil well fire with the help of a massive explosion—a method still in common use for fighting oil fires. Myron and Karl Kinley first successfully used explosives to extinguish an oil well fire in 1913. [30]