Explosions on the rise
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An oil field exploded in Basra Iraq [Iraq Oil Report ; Published September 20, 2011]; Comment by Starr DiGiacomo
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List of comment about gas explosion, in order of posted time; as of 2011-09-01
1) SOMERVILLE, Ohio, US; "Investigation continues in house collapse"
2) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. US; "Bakersfield resident hurt in natural gas explosion"
3) Pompton Lakes, NJ, US; "Update: Suspected gas explosion levels home in Pompton Lakes [raw video]"
4) Brantford, Ontario, Canada; "Natural gas explosion levelled Brantford house: fire marshal"
5) Warren, MI, US; "City of Warren Home Explosion Underscores Need for Natural Gas Safety"
6) Castleford, West Yorkshire, UK; "Dramatic footage shows huge gas explosion at Yorkshire home"
7) Warren Park, Harare, Zimbabwe; "2 seriously injured in Warren Park gas explosion"
8) Logan City, south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia; "Seven children killed in gas explosion at house"
9) Herscher, IL, US; Douglasville, GA, US; "This Week In Natural Gas Leaks and Explosions – Aug. 22, 2011"
10) "Seven children killed in gas explosion at house" [See 8)]
11) Lakeview, MI, US; "Explosion inside Lakeview house causes fire, couple escapes with minor injuries"
12) Newborough, Victoria, Australia; "Gas blast destroys Newborough garage"
13) Cato, Montcalm, MI, US; "Couple escapes house explosion"
14) Glenrock, Converse, WY, US; "Oilfield explosion claims three"
15) St. Augustine, Fla, US; "Gas Station Explosion Site in St. Augustine now 'Stable'"
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* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo
We'll be seeing an uptick in unusual home and business gas explosions and I'm trying to locate specific ZT on the matter. Below is a refresher for the many gas related news articles.
http://zetatalk5.com/index/blog0214.htm
SOZT
Fault lines, when adjusting, do not just rip apart one day during a dramatic earthquake. They most often creep. Laying gas lines along or across a fault line is asking for an accident of this sort. Fault lines are also seldom so clearly delineated that one can go a mile in this or that direction and avoid their action. Where a slip-slide fault such as the San Andreas will often leave a clear line on the surface, this is only the surface action, not what occurs in the rock layers on either side which can fracture for a long way to either side during any movement. The gas company, or the age of the pipes, will be faulted but in truth the finger should be pointed in many directions. The public, who insist on living at such a scenic spot, is to blame. Officials, who zoned for housing are to blame. The public utility company, for allowing gas lines in the area, is to blame. But this will change nothing, while man continues to live on the San Andreas, even as it awakens. EOZT
http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/18sp2010.htm
SOZT
The danger from radon gas will not be increased as a result of the pole shift. Radon gas is emitted by rock containing uranium, which is degrading. In normal circumstances, where air can circulate, it is disbursed rapidly as is any methane created by decay of organic material. The danger from these gasses comes from confinement - being trapped in a mine, a basement, or beneath the permafrost. The dangers are well known. For methane, it is explosions. An accumulation of methane gas can be identified by the smell of rotten eggs, or as some have described it, dirty socks or cabbage soup. For radon gas the danger is lung cancer, from the continual exposure to the radioactive air. Radon gas is odorless, and cannot be detected except by specialized equipment not in the hands of the average person.
In that the pole shift, or the Earth changes preceding the pole shift, can fracture rock and release pockets of either gas, survivors should be cautious about huddling in bunkers. You are safer out in the open air, or in a trench you have dug that will allow the pole shift winds to pass over you, but nothing to fall on and crush you. The fact that both methane gas and radon gas can accumulate in the bunkers of the elite is one of the reasons we have stated that they have dug their own graves. EOZT
http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/12mr2011.htm
* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo
SOZT
Anyone watching the news, for instance the news on the San Bruno explosion in a distribution line close to the San Andreas Fault line, knows that gas in any form is a danger. Oil and gas refineries explode when rigid piping cracks. Oil or gas wells explode when the ground around them moves. And the gas distribution lines running under cities are no exception. They likewise will explode. Gas lines, whether along the street or within a home, are rigid. In some cases automatic shutoff valves can limit the amount of gas available for an explosion by sensing a drop in pressure, but this is always after the fact. The explosion has already occurred. Utilizing gas on a planet prone to earthquakes was a mistake to begin with, but man never thinks of the consequences when striving for modern conveniences. We have advised turning off the gas at the street, though when the street explodes and your neighbor's homes are on fire you are not likely to escape the holocaust. A better alternative is to live in an area where gas is not available, as in your rural safe location where you will be doing a form of camping while gardening. A campfire at night, for cooking and washing and a bit of friendly light before bed. Nothing explosive. EOZT
http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/02oc2010.htm
* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo
SOZT Answer: It is no accident that the New Madrid fault lies under the Mississippi River near Memphis, as rivers form in lowlands created when land pulls apart, separating the rock fingers and weakening support for the land. Thus, the Ohio River bed also is an indication of where rock fingers will pull apart. Two adjustments in Kentucky, a day apart, are not an accident, but an indication of the speed at which the stretch zone is starting to adjust. Rail lines are frequently an early harbinger of such adjustments, as they run long distances, whereas structures within cities, such as tall buildings, take up relatively little space and have a small footprint. Our warning that imploding cities will be experienced, before the hour of the shift, are in this regard. Be warmed, it will not just be your rail lines and gas and water mains that will shatter and be pulled apart during the stretch. The foundations of your tall buildings will likewise be vulnerable.EOZT
http://www.zetatalk5.com/newsletr/issue008.htm
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[Original post on January 20, 2011]
Original title: Gas explosion kills 1, injures 5 in Philadelphia
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/19/pennsylvania.gas.explosion/index.h...
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- The explosion occurred in Philadelphia's Tacony neighborhood
- The blast killed one utilities worker and injured five other people
- Some of the injuries are serious
(CNN) -- A gas main explosion in Philadelphia Tuesday evening killed one utilities worker and injured five other people, a fire department official said.
Philadelphia Gas Works employees were responding to a gas main break in the city's Tacony neighborhood when the explosion occurred, fire department spokesman Jim Smith said.
"They were trying to control it and found a source of ignition," according to Smith, who said four PGW employees and a firefighter were among the injured. He said some of the gas workers' injuries were serious.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/natural-gas-explosion-philadelphia-...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/caught-on-tape-gas-main-explodes-126...
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on October 7, 2012 at 6:39am
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http://wreg.com/2012/10/05/breaking-news-storms-cause-transformer-e...
Breaking News: Storms Cause Transformer Explosion and Gas Line Fire
(Memphis) Memphis firefighters and MLGW crews are on the scene of a transformer explosion and gas line break.
It happened near the intersection of Florida and McLemore in South Memphis.
Flames shot out of the ground after some sort of explosion at a power substation across the street.
The gas was turned off.
MLGW is still trying to figure out what cased the fire.
No one was hurt.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-venezuela-oilexplosionl1e8l300...
Gas well explosion injures four in Venezuela
chicagotribune.com
Gas well explosion injures four in Venezuela
Another gas explosion in Venezuela
Reuters
7:19 PM CDT, October 2, 2012
CARACAS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - An explosion at a gas well in
Venezuela injured four people on Tuesday in the latest accident
to hit the energy industry in the South American OPEC nation,
state oil company PDVSA said.
PDVSA said in a statement that the workers were stable in
hospital after the blast, which was caused by a leak at the
Petrourdaneta project in western Venezuela's Zulia state.
On Aug. 25 a gas leak caused an explosion at the country's
biggest oil refinery, Amuay, which killed 42 people, wounded
dozens more and damaged some 1,600 homes in the
area.
On Sept. 20 a lightning strike set fire to fuel storage
tanks at another refinery, El Palito, but no one was hurt.
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http://www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2012/10/04/brk,20121004...
Three Killed in Pertamina Pipeline Explosion
Thursday, 04 October, 2012 | 15:19 WIBTEMPO Interactive, Palembang:Three were killed and dozens injured when an oil pipeline exploded at the Tempino-Plaju distribution channel in the Bayung Lencir district of South Sumatra on Wednesday.
The incident was confirmed by Robert MV, the External Relation Assistant Manager of state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina�s South Sumatra Marketing Unit. �Three people were killed based on the first report. The victims were taken to a hospital in Jambi,� said Robert on Wednesday, October 3. Other information gathered mentioned that the explosion injured 40 others.
According to Robert, that crude oil pipeline was operated by national oil-drilling company Elnusa. However, his group is going to investigate that incident. �This pipeline was under supervision and operation of national oil-drilling company Elnusa.�
It had been reported previously that the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulator (BP Migas) urged the owner of Tempino pipeline to improve the security so that crude oil theft cases can be prevented. State-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina EP (limited) admitted to having suffered a loss of 39 thousand barrels of crude oil in May 2012 whereas in June, losses increased to more than 59 thousand barrels in one month. It was caused by the looting of crude oil at Tempino-Plaju pipeline in Jambi and South Sumatera which is increasingly concerned.
South Sumatra Regional Police Spokesperson, Police Grand Commissioner Adjutant R. Djarod Padakova confirmed that fire incident. However, he has not been able to ensure the the number of victims who died.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/26-killed-in-gas-...
26 killed in gas pipeline explosion in Mexico
MEXICO CITY -- At least 26 oil workers were killed Tuesday and several dozen injured in a huge explosion and fire along a natural gas pipeline in northeastern Mexico, officials said.
Officials with Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, the state-owned oil giant, said they were investigating the cause of the explosion, which ripped through a distribution plant, sent orange flames into the sky and forced temporary evacuations of parts of the area in Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas.
Pemex initially said 10 people were killed and 40 injured. Later, via its Twitter account, the company raised the death toll to 26. It did not update the number of wounded but said four of the dead worked for Pemex and 22 worked for contractors. It was not clear if that included foreign companies.
Pemex's vast operations in Tamaulipas, a violent state dominated by drug cartels, have suffered thefts of gas and oil and the kidnappings of numerous workers.
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Comment by Kojima on September 18, 2012 at 7:40am
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* A chronology of accidents in the Venezuelan oil industry during 2012
This year, more than 30 accidents have lambasted the oil industry operations [EL UNIVERSAL; Tuesday August 28, 2012]
January 04, 2012. State-owned holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) reported that the Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit (FCC) of refinery El Palito would be not running during five days to correct a fault in the Valves Skid System.
January 05, 2012. Oil-sector workers at refinery El Palito asserted that the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit stopped due to the deficient maintenance works previously conducted.
January 07, 2012. A blast was reported in the refinery Cardón.
January 08, 2012. Electrical failures affected the operating capacity of refinery Cardón.
January 08, 2012. A preventive stopping of the naphtha reforming unit of refinery Cardón was reported by Pdvsa.
January 10, 2012. Oil-sector workers reported on failures in the distillation unit of refinery Amuay.
January 13, 2012. A deceased and nine injured people was the result of a craft sinking in Zulia state (northwest Venezuela).
January 14, 2012. Two workers died and 22 were injured after the crash of a truck into a bus that transported Pdvsa workers from Zulia state to Caracas to attend a presidential act.
January 17, 2012. A Pdvsa oil drill blasted in the Punta de Mata management (Monagas state, Venezuela's northeast), without injured or wounded people recorded.
January 21, 2012. Oil- sector workers of Paraguaná Refining Complex voiced disatisfaction with the lack of personal and industrial security.
January 21, 2012. Paraguaná refineries worked at 63% of their operating capacity.
January 22, 2012. Refinery Amuay distillation unit was reactivated.
January 26, 2012. Pdvsa asserted that Paraguaná Refining Complex worked at 79% of its total operating capacity.
January 31, 2012. A major programmed maintenance in the catalytic unit of refinery Amuay began.
February 04, 2012. A contingency plan in the Jusepín Monagas Complex (Monagas state) was activated to fix a crack in the crude oil pipeline.
February 06, 2012. An accident in refinery Cardón was recorded when a failure in the submersible pump of the plant DC-4 (atmospheric distillation) sparked a fire.
February 06, 2012. A broken oil pipeline caused water in short supply in Monagas state, as well as a crude oil spill.
February 8, 2012. Pdvsa conducted some investigations due to a blast in the welding workshop of its subsidiary company National Transportation Enterprise, in the Southeast Region; a worker died.
February 21, 2012. A failure stopped the catalytic unit of refinery Cardón.
February 22, 2012. Lack of spare parts affected operations in the refineries.
February 27, 2012. There were warnings about the deterioration of refinery El Palito (in Carabobo state). Pdvsa confirmed crude oil spill in Guanipa River in Anzoátegui state (northeast of the country).
February 02, 2012. The processing plant was stopped in refinery El Palito.
February 03, 2012. Spill of 100 oil barrels was reported. It was caused by a vessel from Bahamas that was at 1 nm from the docks of the José Cryogenic Complex.
February 09, 2012. At 8:30 p.m., a failure in the Cardón air instrument system occurred. This caused a refinery preventive stopping.
March 11, 2012.Technical failures affected refineries of Falcón and Anzoátegui states.
April 01, 2012. Three people were injured and one died due to a blast in the main station of Petrocedeño in San Diego de Cabrutica, in Anzoátegui state.
April 26, 2012. The catalytic still in the refinery Amuay was reactivated.
April 27, 2012. The catalytic cracker stopped again in Amuay.
April 28, 2012. A Pdvsa worker died and three were injured in an accident in Lake Maracaibo.
May 06, 2012. A contingency plan was activated after a crude oil spill in Anzoátegui state.
May 08, 2012. A crude oil spill occurred in Miranda town council, Anzoátegui state, where Petropiar is located.
May 10, 2012. A products pipeline break disrupted the diesel line in Monagas state.
May 23, 2012. The lubricating plant would stop for three months.
May 28, 2012. Yare oil tanker, run by Pdvsa and recently delivered by Japan, had to be attended in a Bahamas dockyard, due to a break in the hull.
June 03, 2012. A fire was recorded in the well CM-26 in Zulia State. Three people were injured and one died.
June 07, 2012. A Pdvsa truck, loaded with liquefied gas, knocked over the Main 9 (on the way to east Venezuela).
June 24, 2012. Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit of refinery El Palito, Carabobo state, entered its pre-startup phase on July 26, after a programmed stopping of 20 days.
June 28, 2012. Refinery Amuay came to a standstill due to a failure in the cooling system.
July 04, 2012. Petropiar heavy crude oil upgrader, run by Pdvsa and Chevron, would not operate for 46 days for the purpose of maintenance and in order to increase its processing capacity at 17% to 210,000 barrels per day.
July 26, 2012. Pdvsa confirmed a fire on July 25 in the facilities of the Petropiar heavy crude oil upgrader in Anzoátegui.
August 05, 2012. A minor fire was recorded in Cardón refinery.
August 25, 2012. A blast in refinery Amuay killed 26 people and injured 80.
Translated by Karina Salas
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http://www.kiiitv.com/story/19476923/natural-gas-well-explodes-near...
Natural Gas Well Explodes Near Alice
Posted: Sep 06, 2012 5:50 PM ADT Updated: Sep 06, 2012 5:55 PM ADT
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“ Gas explosion in PC hotel ”Sep 03, 2012, 5:49 PM
No Tourist were injured.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g147293-i28-k5733885-Gas_explo...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A spokesman for a beach resort in the Dominican Republic says a gas tank explosion has injured 16 kitchen workers.
Grand Paradise Bavaro spokesman Luis Lopez says five workers were hospitalized as a result of the blast. Lopez says hotel technicians are trying to determine the cause of the explosion, which occurred Sunday while the workers were getting ready to serve dinner. There was no fire but the explosion left the kitchen in ruins.
Lopez said Monday the restaurant served by that kitchen was closed at the time and no tourists were injured in the explosion.
The Grand Paradise Bavaro is on the eastern tip of the Caribbean country, part of the popular Punta Cana area.
The 1,029-room hotel is owned by Toronto, Canada-based Blue Diamond Hotels & Resorts
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2012/08/30/10-hurt-gas-tank...
10 hurt in gas tank explosion in Cebu
Thursday, August 30, 2012
CEBU CITY (Updated) -- Residents of Sitio Paglaum in Barangay Calamba, this city, were going about their routine on Thursday afternoon when they heard an explosion.
Seconds later, they saw flames entering their homes. Ten people were hurt after a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank exploded in a junkshop in their neighborhood, with at least one victim in critical condition.
Six houses made of light materials were also damaged when the explosion resulted in a fire, with flames reaching houses located several meters from the junkshop.
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Central Visayas received the alarm at 2:55 p.m., shortly after three auto LPG tanks were delivered to the junk shop owned by Joel Ramos.
BURNS. Herminia Timblor, 26, and her seven-year-old son Mico show the burns on their limbs when an auto LPG tank delivered to a junkyard located within their neighborhood in Sitio Paglaum, Barangay Calamba, Cebu City, exploded. SFO2 Emiliano Daño (right photo) checks the tanks when firefighters rushed to the scene. (Allan Defensor)Of the three tanks, one exploded.
The tank exploded after the junk shop worker, Carlito Tampon, 24, tried to remove its regulator.
The tanks were confiscated by the BFP. Tampon is in critical condition as his entire body was burned during the explosion.
Nine others suffered minor burns. Six of them are children.
The victims were Christian Labiste; Bianca Rama, 8; Kimberly Labistre, 4; Mico Temblor, 7; Angel Montemayor, 5; Gwendolyn Montemayor, 7; Jermalyn Labistre, 5; and Herminia Temblor, 26.
The victims were rushed to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Hospital, but Herminia Temblor and her son Mico decided to go home after complaining that they were not entertained in the hospital.
Herminia and Mico suffered minor burns on their arms and legs, which they treated with a cream to ease the pain.
She said that she was attending to her sari-sari store when she noticed the flames coming toward them.
“We hid in the corner but the fire still caught us,” she said in Bisaya.
SFO2 Emiliano Daño said they have to investigate the incident further and see who will be held liable.
Erlinda Rama, 45, said they were just watching television when the flames reached their house. Her two granddaughters were injured.
We just heard an explosion and the next thing we knew, the flames entered the house, Rama said.
Daño said that as of Thursday, the damage was estimated to be only P1,000, but they have to assess again today, Friday, the extent of the damage.
BFP Central Visayas also has to consolidate their data and check if there were other people injured.
Ramos, the owner of the junk shop, said he was not there when the incident happened. He said his shop usually does not accept gas tanks because these pose danger to the public.
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http://centurycity.patch.com/articles/gas-fireplace-leaks-triggers-...
Gas Leak Triggers Explosion in West L.A. Condo
One man is injured in thunderous explosion Monday night in condo near Barrington Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard.
Natural gas that seeped from one condominium into another caused an explosion in a two-story building in West Los Angeles, slightly injuring a man, authorities said today.
The blast happened around 10:10 p.m. Monday in a condominium in an 18- unit building at 1535 S. Granville Ave., said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Two men in a second-story unit had just finished cooking when they noticed the smell of gas in their kitchen, he said.
They were unable to locate the source of the odor, and moments later, after one of them had left the room, a "thunderous but fire-free explosion occurred behind the stove, fully toppling the appliance as well as a refrigerator nearby, and causing significant damage to walls within the kitchen and adjacent room,'' Humphrey said.
The man who was standing near the stove suffered a lacerated leg while the other was uninjured, he said. Both declined to be transported to a hospital.
Firefighters determined the leak came from a gas-fed fireplace in the unit below, Humphrey said. The gas collected in the upstairs wall space and was somehow ignited, he said.
A Southern California Gas Company representative determined the hazard had been abated, and a city Department of Building and Safety inspector deemed the affected condominium and the rest of the building safe for occupancy, Humphrey said.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/309919/china-coal-mine-blast-t...
China coal mine blast traps 50: state media
- Published: 29/08/2012 at 11:48 PM
A gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest China has trapped 50 miners underground, state media said Wednesday, in the latest mining disaster to hit the country.
A worker walks through a mine in Sichuan in 2009. A gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest China has trapped 50 miners underground, state media said Wednesday, in the latest mining disaster to hit the country.
The blast occurred late Wednesday afternoon in Panzhihua city in Sichuan province, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Rescue efforts were now underway, it added.
China's mines are known for being among the world's most deadly due to lax regulation, corruption and inefficiency, and accidents are common as safety is often neglected by bosses seeking quick profits.
Rapid economic growth has caused China's demand for energy, including coal, to surge. The world's second-biggest economy is the top global consumer of coal.
In April, nine miners were killed and 16 injured in a blast at a colliery in northern China's Inner Mongolia region.
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