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According to reports from local news station ABC13, the fire spread south under Spencer Highway into the borders of the adjacent city of La Porte, Texas. Video from the area after the explosion ...
Energy Transfer is the operator of the pipeline involved in the La Porte fire, which is a 20-inch natural gas liquids pipeline. The company reports the pipeline has been isolated to allow the ...
Energy Transfer, the Dallas-based company that owns the pipeline, on Wednesday called it an accident. Deer Park officials said preliminary investigations by police and FBI agents found no evidence of a terrorist attack. The pipeline is a 20-inch-wide (50-centimeter-wide) conduit that runs for miles through the Houston area.
What happened to the Houston pipeline? A massive fire shot flames hundreds of feet in the air after an explosion in a Houston suburb just before 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 16. Although the lack of ...
March 5 – CenterPoint Energy employees were excavating a gas pipeline in Harris County, Texas when the line ruptured, causing a gas explosion and fire. 7 employees were injured. [19] March 16 – Buckeye Partner's 12-inch hazardous liquid pipeline Line 602 ruptured and released approximately 14,800 gallons of unleaded gasoline in Linden, New ...
June 10, 1999 - The Olympic pipeline explosion. April 2, 2010 - An explosion and fire led to the fatal injury of seven employees when a nearly forty-year-old heat exchanger catastrophically failed during a maintenance operation to switch a process stream between two parallel banks of exchangers at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes. [217]
As of Tuesday morning, the fire caused by an exploding pipeline in a Houston suburb continued to burn itself out, according to officials.
July 3 – A jury found Texas-New Mexico Pipeline (TNMP) Company guilty of fraud, gross negligence and willful misconduct in concealing a 1992 crude oil pipeline leak beneath a Midland, Texas, residential subdivision, before selling the pipeline to EOTT Energy in 1999. Oil was discovered in the water table in late 2000, and in March 2001 a ...