BRKG Numerous crews on scene of natural gas line explosion north of Piedmont, OK 9/16/20

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Natural gas line explosion leaves crater-sized hole near Piedmont

Numerous agencies responded to the scene of a natural gas explosion Wednesday night near Piedmont.
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Numerous crews on scene of natural gas line explosion north of Piedmont
Updated: 10:01 PM CDT Sep 16, 2020



PIEDMONT, Okla. —
Numerous crews are at the scene of a natural gas line explosion that occurred Wednesday night north of Piedmont.
Officials said a 12-inch pipeline running under Waterloo Road near Piedmont Road exploded, creating a crater all across the roadway.


Police told KOCO 5 that it's a rural area and very few residents live in the area. The police chief said there are no injuries that he knows of and no evacuations at this time.

Traffic heading east on Waterloo Road is being diverted and the roadway is being shut down, officials said.
Crews are working to control the fire.
KOCO 5 will provide more details when they become available.
 
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Multiple Agencies Battle Large Fire After Gas Line Explosion In Piedmont

Multiple agencies responded to a large fire after a reported gas explosion Wednesday night in Piedmont.
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Multiple Agencies Battle Large Fire After Reported Gas Explosion In Piedmont

Wednesday, September 16th 2020, 9:06 pm
By: News 9

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Multiple agencies responded to a large fire after a reported gas explosion Wednesday night in Piedmont.

The fire was located near Piedmont Road North and Waterloo Road.

Flames reaching 50 to 100 feet in the air were visible, viewers reported.

Logan County, Canadian County, and Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Offices all responded with Piedmont Fire, Cashion Fire, and Oakcliff Fire.

The Kingfisher County sheriff told News 9 a high pressure gas line was possibly hit.

The sheriff said there are reports of severe damage at of the Waterloo and 2950 intersection.
 
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Walrus

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no such things as coincidences anymore, but nothing to substantiate, just suspicion.

Anyway, natural gas fires are hot but relatively easy to extinguish. In a nutshell: Isolate the rupture (which is often done automatically when pressure differentials are sensed along the line but older systems may not have that capability), keep things around it cooled until the gas source burns itself out (Do NOT put out the fire; subsequent explosions are killers). Keep a crew to keep things cooled down and traffic away from the area and get out early in the morning to see what needs to be done to fix it, while letting the investigation take its course.

Line up all the welders, pipe-fighters and pipe you can for the repair while your permitting team attacks the regulatory maze, your enviro team does all the mitigating that it can (which is much easier with natural gas than, say, heavy crude or chemicals), get one of your legal beagles onsite so they will be able to assess the impacts of any lawsuits wrt damages, loss of revenue to partners, damages to landowners, etc., and have some answers for the CEO for his public statement and the CFO for his forward earnings estimates. Your logistics team is already sourcing what you've identified for them and your finance group is building the AFEs and emergency purchase orders as they're fed from your logistics and planning teams.

In other words, your Incident Commander ramps up your - hopefully much-practiced and modified-as-needed-well-in-advance - Emergency Response. This is where you're adding value when you've been trained and have practiced often.

Life goes on.
 
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Digger

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There was a ruptured natural gas line in fire in Ft. Smith AR last night. It started sometime a little before the 10PM news. I tried to link the story, but I couldn't get it to work.
 
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