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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]
April 7, 1926 - A lightning-caused fire, involving a 1 million gallon tank, near San Luis Obispo. [8] September 16, 1928 – George F. Getty Inc. well exploded at the Santa Fe Springs oil fields, igniting a fire that burned for almost two months. [10] July 12, 1951 - A tank farm fire in Wilmington injured 3.
September 9, 2010: The 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred in a suburb of San Francisco killing 8 and produced a ball of fire 1,000 foot high due to the rupture of the natural gas pipeline. [42] November 3, 2010: A gas explosion destroyed four houses and injured 15 people, in Merlin Road, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. [43]
The fire department reported around 2:30 p.m. Thursday that Cascade Natural Gas staff had completed all repairs. Fire crews used gas monitoring equipment to look for hazardous conditions.
For the Canadian band, see Natural Gas (band). Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) [ 1 ] in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Traces of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and helium are ...
North American natural gas production indeed peaked in 2001 at 27.5 × 10 ^ 12 cu ft (780 km 3) per year, and declined to 26.1 × 10 ^ 12 cu ft (740 km 3) by 2005, but then rose again in 2006 and 2007 to a new high of 27.9 × 10 ^ 12 cu ft (790 km 3)in 2007 [36] This would make the 2007 figure 1.45% higher than the 2001 figure, for an average ...
Flaring and venting of natural gas in oil wells is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Its contribution to greenhouse gases has declined by three-quarters in absolute terms since a peak in the 1970s of approximately 110 million metric tons/year, and in 2004 accounted for about 1/2 of one percent of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide ...
Deepwater Horizon was a floating semi-submersible drilling unit —a fifth-generation, ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized drilling rig owned by Transocean and built in South Korea. The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum ...