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Historic signage in Grdina Park, just south of the site of the LNG tank farm. The Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion occurred on the afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1944. . The resulting gas leak, explosion and fires killed 131 people and destroyed a one-square-mile area on the east side of Cleveland,
The explosion resulted in a moratorium on liquefied natural gas storage facilities in New York state. [1] The construction of two under-construction tanks in Rossville was subsequently abandoned. [4] [18] The Public Service Electric and Gas Company attempted to store natural gas in the two tanks, but dropped these plans in 1984 due to ...
October 20, 1944 – The Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion: An LNG tank suffered a seam failure, leading to LNG vapors entering sewers. The vapors later exploded, causing 130 deaths, and, destroying of square mile of Cleveland, Ohio. December 15, 2007 – Geauga County, gas well explosion, [103]
In 2012, an undetected leak at Venezuela’s largest oil and LNG refinery experienced a similar kind of vapor cloud explosion. When it ignited, likely by nearby vehicles, it set off a catastrophic ...
2013 (20 August) Explosion of a natural gas pipeline near Kiowa southwest of Oklahoma City [109] 2013 (8 October) Explosion of a natural gas pipeline near Rosston, Oklahoma. [110] 2014 (Jan 25) A Trans Canada pipeline about 15 miles south of Winnipeg ruptured and exploded. The incident prompted the precautionary closure of two nearby pipelines.
A gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. [1] In household accidents, the principal explosive gases are those used for heating or cooking purposes such as natural gas , methane , propane , butane .
Freeport LNG, operator of one of the largest U.S. export plants producing liquefied natural gas (LNG), will shut for at least three weeks following an explosion at its Texas Gulf Coast facility ...
Boarded up businesses after the explosion. In 2018, ten lawsuits were filed against Loy Clark Pipeline, the company responsible for the blast. [9] [10] Loy Clark Pipeline was founded in 1957 and in 2016 was a part of Bismarck, North Dakota-based MDU Construction Services Group, Inc. [11] [12] The Oregon Public Utility Commission concluded "Insufficient Notice to the Oregon Utility Notification ...