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2024-09-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Evacuations ordered after Texas gas pipeline explodes

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 20" natural gas liquids line

Izzat liquefied natural gas (LPG) or just gaseous natural gas?

Posted by Bobby 2024-09-17 08:04|| 2024-09-17 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 A liquids line that carried a mix of natural gasoline, propane, butane, hexane, and everything in between.
It's common for crude refiners to 'batch group' their products in separation, rather than go for exact products. They then send the batches on to secondary fraction distillers who take the mix down as far in final purity as wanted.
(This concept in refining was actually created by John D Rockefeller, ie there's always something else in the mix, 'safety kerosene'.)
As to the event, witnessess said an SUV with and 'elderly looking' individual was driving erratically in the Wal Mart parking lot, went through the bushes, down the hill, through the fence, and kaboom. (Just another day at Wally World.)

Posted by ed in texas 2024-09-17 08:45|| 2024-09-17 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 SUV Strikes Gas Valve in Texas Causing Massive Fire -- Driver's Intention Unclear

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-17 12:35|| 2024-09-17 12:35|| Front Page Top

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