Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline

Texas Eastern Pipeline (TETCo) is a major natural gas pipeline which brings gas from the Gulf of Mexico coast in Texas and Louisiana up through Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to deliver gas in the New York City area. It is one of the largest pipeline systems in the United States. It is owned by Enbridge. Its FERC code is 17.

This pipeline was built as Big Inch by War Emergency Pipelines (WEP), a consortium of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Texas Pipe Line Company, Cities Service, Socony-Vacuum Oil, Gulf Oil, Consolidated Oil, Shell Oil, Atlantic Refining, Tidewater Associated Oil, Sun Oil and Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company.

Incidents

On August 1, 2019 a section of the pipeline in Lincoln County, Kentucky ruptured and exploded causing the death of one person and injuring five others.[1]

In 1994 in New Jersey, a section of pipeline exploded.[2]

On February 10, 1973, during a cleaning operation, a gas tank exploded in Bloomfield, Staten Island, killing 40 workers.[3]

References

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gas-pipeline-explosion-in-kentucky-kills-at-least-one-11564676279
Perez-Pena, Richard (1994-03-24). "Huge Gas Pipeline Explosion Rocks Northeast New Jersey". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
See:
- Stille, Darlene R. (1974). "Disasters". The World Book Year Book 1974. Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. p. 292. ISBN 0-7166-0474-4. LCCN 62-4818.
- van der Linde, Peter; Hintze, Naomi A. (1978). Time Bomb: LNG: The truth about our newest and most dangerous energy source. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. pp. 26–32. ISBN 0-385-12979-3. LCCN 77-76271.

External links

Texas Eastern Transmission Spectra Energy Profile
Pipeline Electronic Bulletin Board
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Operator Report and Incidents Report

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[1] ttps://www.wsj.com/articles/gas-pipeline-explosion-in-kentucky-kills-at-least-one-11564676279

[2] Perez-Pena, Richard (1994-03-24). "Huge Gas Pipeline Explosion Rocks Northeast New Jersey". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-05.

[3] See:
Stille, Darlene R. (1974). "Disasters". The World Book Year Book 1974. Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. p. 292. ISBN 0-7166-0474-4. LCCN 62-4818.

van der Linde, Peter; Hintze, Naomi A. (1978). Time Bomb: LNG: The truth about our newest and most dangerous energy source. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. pp. 26–32. ISBN 0-385-12979-3. LCCN 77-76271.

[4] Stille, Darlene R. (1974). "Disasters". The World Book Year Book 1974. Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. p. 292. ISBN 0-7166-0474-4. LCCN 62-4818.

[5] van der Linde, Peter; Hintze, Naomi A. (1978). Time Bomb: LNG: The truth about our newest and most dangerous energy source. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. pp. 26–32. ISBN 0-385-12979-3. LCCN 77-76271.