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First carload of 24-inch (610 mm) seamless pipe for the Big Inch. The Inch pipelines comprised two systems, the Big Inch pipeline and the Little Big Inch pipeline. [22] The Big Inch was a 24-inch (610 mm) pipeline for crude oil; it ran from the East Texas Oil Field at Longview, Texas, to Norris City, Illinois, and on to Phoenixville ...
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]
December 18 – A 30-inch gas pipeline exploded and burned at a gas processing plant in Gibson, Louisiana. One plant worker was injured. [192] December 28 – A crew was working an 8 inch gas pipeline to a 20 inch pipeline, near Bay City, Texas, when there was an explosion. Two persons of the crew were killed, and, four others injured.
August 6 – A 12-inch crude oil pipeline, approximately 14 miles south of Grandfalls, Texas. About 8,400 gallons of crude were spilled. [37] October 4 – An Enable Gas Transmission (a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners) 24 inch gas pipeline exploded and burned, in Jessieville, Arkansas. There were no injuries, and the cause seemed to be ...
July 24 – A pipeline ruptured and spread burning gasoline near Manheim, Pennsylvania. [42] [43] August 11 – At approximately 5:05 a.m. MST, an El Paso Natural Gas 24-inch gas transmission pipeline failed near Williams, Arizona, resulting in the release of natural gas. The natural gas continued to discharge for about an hour before igniting.
March 15 – A 24-inch gas pipeline burst, but did not ignite near Pampa, Texas. [11] March 25 – There was a release of 1700 barrels of Vacuum gas oil (VGO) from the FM-1 pipeline into an open in-ground valve pit and the surrounding area in the West Yard of the Sunoco, R&M Philadelphia refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The area was ...
Nominal Pipe Size (NPS) is a North American set of standard sizes for pipes used for high or low pressures and temperatures. [1] " Nominal" refers to pipe in non-specific terms and identifies the diameter of the hole with a non-dimensional number (for example – 2-inch nominal steel pipe" consists of many varieties of steel pipe with the only criterion being a 2.375-inch (60.3 mm) outside ...
On February 18, 2000, a 24-inch diameter Tennessee Gas Pipeline at Marcellus, New York, leaked natural gas when a pipe cracked. The crack was thought to be caused by a manufacturing defect in the pipe which had been installed in 1951. [24]