Pipeline Safety

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Vorys

The Dallas Morning News is reporting on an explosion caused by utility workers digging into a 36-inch high-pressure natural gas pipeline owned by Enterprise Products Partners.  As observed by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), this is one of the leading causes (i.e., dig-in) of injuries related to natural gas pipeline incidents.

[On a related note, one of our attorneys will be giving a presentation on the applicability of federal pipeline safety regulations to production and gathering operations at the PIOGA Summer Meeting at the Seven Springs Resort - Champion, PA, later this week.  For more, see here.]

[On another related note:  It does seem that there have been a number of energy incidents in the news lately.  First, the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf.  Then this pipeline explosion.  But also there are reports of a natural gas well explosion in West Virginia (WCHS8), and a well blowout in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia Inquirer).]
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