12wonderY
Surprised there wasn't a topic here already.
Keystone pipeline shut after 14,000-barrel oil spill in Kansas
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/keystone-pipeline-shut-after-oil-spill-i...
According to PHMSA data, this would be the largest crude oil leak since a Tesoro pipeline leaked more than 20,000 barrels of oil in North Dakota in October 2013.
PHMSA is also investigating the leak, which occurred near Washington, Kansas, a town of about 1,000 people.
There have been seven Keystone spills since it became operational in June 2010, according to PHMSA data. The largest were in December 2017, when more than 6,600 barrels spilled in South Dakota, according to PHMSA figures.
“It is troubling to see so many failures and so much oil spilled from any pipeline, but it is especially troubling from such a relatively new pipeline,” said Bill Caram, executive director of the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust, in a statement.
The spill comes about two months after TC said it would temporarily increase capacity on the system to test certain operations. TC has a special permit to operate Keystone at a higher stress level than other U.S. crude lines, according to a 2021 Government Accountability Office report.
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I understand that Canadian crude is particularly corrosive. Keystone Pipeline was theoretically designed accordingly. Yeah, sure.
Keystone pipeline shut after 14,000-barrel oil spill in Kansas
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/keystone-pipeline-shut-after-oil-spill-i...
According to PHMSA data, this would be the largest crude oil leak since a Tesoro pipeline leaked more than 20,000 barrels of oil in North Dakota in October 2013.
PHMSA is also investigating the leak, which occurred near Washington, Kansas, a town of about 1,000 people.
There have been seven Keystone spills since it became operational in June 2010, according to PHMSA data. The largest were in December 2017, when more than 6,600 barrels spilled in South Dakota, according to PHMSA figures.
“It is troubling to see so many failures and so much oil spilled from any pipeline, but it is especially troubling from such a relatively new pipeline,” said Bill Caram, executive director of the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust, in a statement.
The spill comes about two months after TC said it would temporarily increase capacity on the system to test certain operations. TC has a special permit to operate Keystone at a higher stress level than other U.S. crude lines, according to a 2021 Government Accountability Office report.
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I understand that Canadian crude is particularly corrosive. Keystone Pipeline was theoretically designed accordingly. Yeah, sure.
22wonderY
Because this is inevitable:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C51_BEIRVUO/?igsh=Mm1lemNla3JlZmw1
Not finding it on the news.
Other recent fire:
https://www.yourbasin.com/news/crews-respond-to-large-pipeline-fire-outside-pyot...
Inspectors commentary:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/inside-failure-safeguard-toxic-pipeline...
Eight inspectors who’ve worked on pipeline projects in states across the country, some granted anonymity to discuss safety hazards, told E&E News that their warnings were often ignored by the pipeline companies. And if they refuse to be ignored, they say, they can be fired.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C51_BEIRVUO/?igsh=Mm1lemNla3JlZmw1
Not finding it on the news.
Other recent fire:
https://www.yourbasin.com/news/crews-respond-to-large-pipeline-fire-outside-pyot...
Inspectors commentary:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/inside-failure-safeguard-toxic-pipeline...
Eight inspectors who’ve worked on pipeline projects in states across the country, some granted anonymity to discuss safety hazards, told E&E News that their warnings were often ignored by the pipeline companies. And if they refuse to be ignored, they say, they can be fired.
32wonderY
my headline:
Earthquakes in Texas being caused by fracking and wastewater injection
their headline:
Texas rocked by major earthquake after three in less than 12 hours
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14409089/Texas-rocked-major-eart...
'The practice of deep injection of oil field wastewater, known as saltwater disposal, has the strongest tie to the increase in the rate of earthquakes and to the strongest earthquakes that have occurred in recent years,' said Peter Hennings, research professor at The University of Texas's Bureau of Economic Geology.
Researchers from Southern Methodist University in Texas found in 2015 that the state's earthquakes were due to fracking.
They looked at 84 days from November 2013 to January 2014, finding 27 magnitude two or greater earthquakes hit around Azle that is home to fracking practises.
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Matthew Hornbach, a Southern Methodist University geophysicist, said the timing and location of the quakes correlates better to the drilling and injection than any other possible reason.
'There appears to be little doubt about the conclusion that the earthquakes were in fact induced,' USGS seismologist Susan Hough, who wasn't part of the study team, said.
'There's almost an abundance of smoking guns in this case.'
Massive amounts of brine taken out of the ground with the gas, said study co-author William Ellsworth of the USGS. Removing the saltwater changes the underground pressure.
But the deep injection of the wastes still is the principle culprit, Ellsworth said.
Azle sits atop the large underground Barrett Shale natural gas formation.
Earthquakes in Texas being caused by fracking and wastewater injection
their headline:
Texas rocked by major earthquake after three in less than 12 hours
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14409089/Texas-rocked-major-eart...
'The practice of deep injection of oil field wastewater, known as saltwater disposal, has the strongest tie to the increase in the rate of earthquakes and to the strongest earthquakes that have occurred in recent years,' said Peter Hennings, research professor at The University of Texas's Bureau of Economic Geology.
Researchers from Southern Methodist University in Texas found in 2015 that the state's earthquakes were due to fracking.
They looked at 84 days from November 2013 to January 2014, finding 27 magnitude two or greater earthquakes hit around Azle that is home to fracking practises.
Read More
Earthquakes hit Texas town plagued by rotten egg stench and mysterious 100ft geyser
article image
Matthew Hornbach, a Southern Methodist University geophysicist, said the timing and location of the quakes correlates better to the drilling and injection than any other possible reason.
'There appears to be little doubt about the conclusion that the earthquakes were in fact induced,' USGS seismologist Susan Hough, who wasn't part of the study team, said.
'There's almost an abundance of smoking guns in this case.'
Massive amounts of brine taken out of the ground with the gas, said study co-author William Ellsworth of the USGS. Removing the saltwater changes the underground pressure.
But the deep injection of the wastes still is the principle culprit, Ellsworth said.
Azle sits atop the large underground Barrett Shale natural gas formation.
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