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Massive Pipeline Explosion Near Milford, Texas; Entire Town Being Evacuated - Live Choppercam
Every day in the New Normal, it is either a mass shooting or an explosion in some pipeline or crude-carrying train. Moments ago, a pipeline in Texas exploded in a massive fireball and has prompted the evacuation of the nearby town of Milford.
From Breaking911:
Smoke and flames are visible for miles. There is a fear that an additional pipe may explode. Nearby schools have all been evacuated as well. NUmerous rescue teams responding; unknown if there are any injuries at this time.
UPDATE 11:30AM EST: According to county officials, a 10-inch pipeline east of U.S. Highway 77 and Farm-to-Market Road 308 was being worked on when it exploded.
UPDATE 11:31AM EST: NBC reports that there are no injuries.
- See more at: http://www.breaking911.com/breaking-pipeline-explosion-near-city-of-milf...
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Bullish for Tesla.
Life imitating the market!
And by the way anyone who doesn't want the keystone pipeline running under their land is an America-hating socialist commie.
Can somebody please explain to me how crude oil explodes?? Without the help of C4, I mean.
Yes, this is clearly the act of eco-terrorists...
How did you know so quickly?
They put bullets into eco-terrorists in this neck of the world. Just saying.
Hmmm... exactly what is this "City of MILF" I see in the link?
Once enough water wells are fouled from fracking this will change.
I was going to say speculators.
Or, big oil. They (Saudi's) couldn't get that invasion of Syria, so on to plan B. Oil's down, how much, in the last month?
Often natural gas (as well as other chemicals) will be added as a dilutent so it will actually flow. This especially true with tar sands bitumen, which by itself is the consistency of peanut butter.
Sorry I'm not buying it. I don't care how much shit you add to it, it's still crude oil. Diesel fuel, which is a distillation product of oil, doesn't even explode.
"Sorry I'm not buying it."
Lol, maverick!
How do you know it was a crude oil pipeline? And even if it is, crude oil has a LPG component.
It's not that uncommon to dig through pipelines when doing underground construction. Their location is often not known with great precision.
"Explosion" could be an exaggeration. I once saw a crew dig into and rupture a large high pressure gas main. It was awe inspiring to say the least.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbit
That article states nothing about "Explosive Potential" as a hazard in the Hazrds section of the cited article.
Crude Oil can burn. It can also explode with a Detonating Charge. When excavating Swimming Polls IN ROCk we'd drill holes, set the Quarter Stick Charges w/Blasting Caps, and MODERATE with Diesel. Diesel remove the sharp Shock that you'd get with an explosion.
But...My guess is that the Pipe was EMPTY...since they were "working on it" You do not run product while working on a Pipe. It was filled with volatile Gases that DETONATED. This will rupture the valve providing Fuel to a fireball.
Hell....it is even hard to make Gasoline explode. You have to vaporize it and mix throughly with AIR to provide it with the Oxygen.
Working on cars and cleaning parts with Gasoline we used to have a Gallon Bucket of Gas lying around. If anybody who was not a mechanic wanted to offer "advice"...we had a solution.
We'd take our LIT Cigarette Butts and throw them in that Bucket of Gas. That would scare the bejeezus out of them and they'd leave promptly.
I AM STILL HERE AND NOT BURNED ALIVE. If you think that I am a son of a bitch, here, you have not fucked with me while working on a car.
Judging from what you write you should be aware of the explosive vapors. Or do you just play possum?
I am very well aware of vapors. Before Fuel Injection most Cars had a Carburetor. If the Fuel-Air Mixture was not set right that car would not run.
Vaporizing Gasoline is harder than you might think.
Yes I am very aware of Vapors. That is what DETONATED that Pipe in Texas.
So it seems like we agree.
Back in the day I had an ag teacher who used to do the "extinquish a match in a can of gas" trick, along with filling a balloon with acetylene, which he would then let go with a lit string.
Good times.
Refreshing when people actually show up with facts around here. Thank you.
Crude Oil cannot explode unless it has an OXIDIZER, or, there is a Detonating Charge. I can come off with all sorts of "facts".
The sky is blue. Plants are green because they reflect green light. If you knock up your mistress..
But if the facts have nothing to do WITH THE TOPIC then they serve as a DISTRACTION. It is an ANNOYANCE.
Crude Oil will BURN when mixed with OXIDIZERS and ignited.
But DETONATION is something quite Different than COMBUSTION. (Actually the term, Internal Combustion Engine, is a misnomer as hundreds of Contained Detonations happen every minute that it is running.)
The facts are THE PIPE WAS FILLED WITH AIR AND VOLATILE GASES, as...THEY WERE WORKING ON IT. Those Gases, mixed with the air, THEN THEY DETONATED.
You do not REPAIR pipes FLOWING WITH CRUDE. You shut them down and DRAIN THEM FIRST.
Has ANYBODY HERE EVER WORKED on a Construction Site and did ANY REAL LABOR?
It seems like NOBODY HERE WILL SURVIVE an ECONOMIC COLLAPSE because of YOUR LACK OF PRACTICAL LABOR SKILLS.
Are you all a bunch of Paper Shufflers, Pencil Pushers, Keyboard Typists, and Telephone Answering Machines?
Do you have callouses on your hands? I still do.
Has ANYBODY HERE EVER WORKED on a Construction Site and did ANY REAL LABOR? Yes, I did. I have experience with welding gas tanks, and therefore I know that you stated something not so right, when saying "You shut them down and DRAIN THEM FIRST." You have to fill up with blanket gas (or in some cases water), just emptying them is quite dangerous. And since you are so generous with contempt, let me add that you won't survive any collapse much longer - because of your lack of SOCIAL skills, you just amply demostrated.
You are right. I do lack Social Skills. I have little time for nonsense. I am glad that you worked for a living.
Obviously they did not purge that Pipeline before welding on it. And I do have utter contempt for those that have not worked for a living.
I claimed that I am a son of a bitch in a previous post. I am a son of a bitch.
There was no C4 that detonated the pipeline. It was volatile gases.
I will give you a Thumbs Up because you make the correct claims.
As for my lack of Social Skills...I care not to develop them.
Don't get me wrong, your social skills are non of my business. I mentioned that just to show that we all have our flaws. And I will give you a thumbs up for being honest. I appreciate that, even if I often don't agree with you on other topics.
Here's some more facts for you:
Without finance, architecture, engineering and other "paper pushing" skills, you'd have no construction projects to work on. Then there the scientists and technicians who design and test the materials and equipment used in those projects. Lots of math, lots of late nights studying for exams - years actually. Been to college have you? Got some mental callouses to show us as well?
Maybe you can run a D9, but can you design and build one from the ground up? Thought not.
Call it "lack of social skills" if you like. I call it overcompensating.
Now get in your F350 and drive over to the liquor store so you can get shit-faced all weekend and fuck up a million dollar job come Monday morning.
(and they wonder why we import Mexicans)
Easy now, children. Division of labor tells us there's plenty of work to go around for all kinds. Coordination, cooperation, and mutual self interest makes the world go 'round.
I've done both - my pappy always told me you can make more money pushing paper than pushing steel but you develop a good work ethic and appreciation for quality by pushing steel.
I've learned a Coda to that statement: You can make more money pushing people than you can pushing paper. I'm trying to find it in me to be able to do that without offending my libertarian sensibilities.
Ebear,
Tranquillo, por favor!
Why so defensive over such an honest statement? There is nothing 'personal' going on here---the dude is just tired, like so many of us, of reading paperpushers' comments about work.
Your work has value, but sitting behind a desk is not labor----it is just sitting behind a desk.
I have done both and now I do nothing, but
I do have have a lot of respect for those with strong backs-----not everyone wants to fly to the moon
"Why so defensive over such an honest statement?"
Because it's pure hubris. Go read it again.
is this payback for all those oil train crash/explosions in canada?
Saudi plot, more likely.
That doesn't look like a pipeline explosion. Pipelines blow craters. There's a drill rig in the center of that fireball. Maybe someone was drilling for water and hit oil?
TDoS's posting below (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-14/massive-pipeline-explosion-near...) Answers your "question." (whether it's to your liking or not I cannot state, though the facts won't cease to exist should you not believe them)
Actually, it doesn't answer my question at all. They add shit to the crude to make it flow. Does that shit necessarily make it explosive? Answer, please.
The dissolvents often form explosive vapors.
When the Pipe is EMPTY OF CRUDE. It is the Dissolvents that detonate. When mixed with Crude it does not make that Crude prone to Detonaton. You must have AIR...OXYGEN.
Explosive Compounds EXPODE because they have an OXIDIDIZER in the Formulation. Nitro Glycerin, for example woks because the Nitrate has a lot of Oxygen available for the Glycerol to burn rapidly. (It is just Red Fuming Nitric Acid mixed with an Alcohol. The Alcohol is Hydrogen Rich.)
But why bother making the Finished Product? All you need to do is mix Nitric Acid and Sulfuric Acid. Then dump the Gycerol into ii...WITHOUT THE ICE BATH...get away fast...and let Nature take its course.
As I said above: Seems like we agree. But having studied chemistry at university I'd like to add:
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
I seem to recall a similar matter of a Nat Gas pipeline exploding in 2000 where half of the natural gas going into California was cutoff (but not into Mexico). Thereby causing electricty rates in California to explode ...pardon the pun.
Pipelines do not just explode, especially crude pipelines.
Double post deleted.
It was the Boomsday Preppers, no doubt.
Terror Buckaroo? I don't know, to explode a good source of oxygen is needed to combust oil, that is why back in the day in the Navy our ships used sprayers to force oil into a mist in order to fire the ships boilers. I don't know how a pipeline of thick black crude explodes. We used oil fires in Navy firefighing school to practice damage control, when the lite the fires there was never an explosions, just a slow woosh and rising flames.
You are correct, sir. Damn commies like Oliar suck monkey tetes.
Bush's fault.
it was Cheney... quail hunting again.. missed his friend and got the pipeline.
Checny now quail hunts from a wheel chair on a game farm where they let them out of cages to be shot. Fucking coward, at least I pound the brush to scare up a roughed grouse and bag them like a real man.
Well, it wasn't "the Jews". This is not their... Schtick. ;-)
did it run over a metal tow hitch?
No injuries, less bullish for Tesla. Elon can't now tweet how people walk away from Tesla fires and not massive exploding pipe, as they erm, all walked away....
What if it turns out there was a pipeline inspector that drove a Tesla car and parked by the pipeline.
What part of the drill rig derrick is not visible to these media types.
It's a well pad, not a pipeline.
....and the AR-15 laying on his front seat went off by accident.
It was the neighborhood watch captain
Pipeline, when you absolutely, positively have to level an entire town/neighborhood in a single day. Just a practice exercise for future Detroit demolitions.
And just who was "working" on the pipeline there???? Could it be.... SATAN!!??
Or just your usual Obamanoids (like hemorrhoids!) sabotaging it to help fight climate change?
Good thing the workers can keep the health insurance they just lost!
Oil, nor pipes, just 'explode' on their own...but nothing to see here....move along peasantry and resume buying wildly rising equity indexes with reckless abandon!
How can all the trucks and cars around it be completely destroyed, yet there be no injuries? What, did everyone see the explosion coming and went running away instead of jumping in their car and driving away? Did the explosion happen on it's own while a bunch of empoyees were on lunch break and had taken a few vehicles in to town, thus nobody there to get hurt? Seriously... Either someone got injured, or someone planted something at the site to cause the explosion and then stayed a safe distance back.
It was a slow motion explosion. The only thing hurt was a slow motion eagle that couldn't get out of the way in time.
And thanks to slow motion I managed to finish reading this well after I'd taken coffee into my mouth... (more realtime and I'd have had scorching coffee come out my nose)
(all speculation here ) - If it is indeed a drilling pad with a rig on site as posted by some people above, there's a chance they started having a blowout, recognized the signs, and ran like hell off the pad. Once all those hydrocarbons start hitting the rig, they're bound to find an ignition source.
Makes you want to build another pipeline from Canada to refine shitty oil to gasoline to export it to China doesn't it?
That is NOT a massive explosion. It is in fact very small. Bring marsh mellows.
ENTIRE TOWN evacuated... Milford Tx. Population 728.
So the workforce then......
Makes me hungry for marshmallows.
Exactly. Entertainment for the unemployed white males, else we'll Lone Wolf ya!
Over.
That should be of massive assistance for gas >$4, shouldn't it? But who needs such superflous stuff, anyways ...
I can haz popcorn?
Get a can! ;-)
As the government's credibility continues to collapse, agents of government will be blowing shit up, engineering mass shootings, scaring us with pedophiles and the like. It doesn't bolster their credibilty but it does give them an excuse to look like they're needed.
I don't think that anyone's going to be specifically tasked with causing shit to collapse. Entropy works for free...
As margins get squeezed it's a certainty that M&O budgets get dinged. Initially folks go along with what the engineers prescribed for maintenance, but after a while they tend to think that it was over-kill, until, well, until there's lots killed... and at this point the costs for maintenance look pretty reasonable (when staring at the costs for negligence and for rebuilding entire plants).
That doesn't explain the rise in mass shootings with questionable backstories.
Destablization operations within conus. We have more than one aparachik running wild
Destablization operations within conus. We have more than one aparachik running wild
I'm sure I am not the first, but what's the point of having all them drones if they can't see something like this before it happens.
( and where are the drone cameras, we shouldn't need a chopper, they're dangerous!! )
The video gamers who will fly those things are playing the new Call of Duty right now. There will be a tournament, and the top players will become drone pilots. SImple as that.
Shades of "The Last Starfighter".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
I'm thinking it's all show until we can get our mechanisms for monitoring "thought" in place. Preempt crimes of maintence neglect early I say!
Looks like a drill rig to me.
Looks very similar to this one from a few years back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSCz-35M9hA which was a crew putting in power poles when they hit a main pipe. Never knew what hit them...
Someone just dropped the hammer on Yellen.
Infobabe says "6 inch gas pipe going into your home".
Um...try 3/4" babe, you must be thinking of something else.
Infobabe always has 6" pipe on her mind it would seem...
Just a bunch of Moroccans performing an old pagan-judeo-muslim ritual: today coincides with what is referred to as "Sha'alla" (Firesetting) where Moroccan tradition has it that on the day following the 10th day of the first month of the lunar calendar (called Ashoura, a Judeo-muslim celebtration) set large fires in public places (where superstition, magic and symbolic purification all mix together).
The day before, it's a nation-wide water fight (also from Judeic origins). At night, kids also wear masks and go around the neighbourhood holding a plate wrapped in a white cloth asking for money, sweets and dried fruits.
Fun days they were.
Looks like a rig is on fire.
Turn oil and gas companies into publicly owned and operated utilities. Arrest Jamie Dimon
#AskJPM
Yesterday was a day I will never forget. Such gleeful skewering of those clueless cretins, it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Yes, it was truly special. And absolutely hilarious at that...
Imagine the chaos if America ever developed a spine and enforced immigration law or worse decided to forego Muslim immigration permanently.
And round up all the Muslims already here and expell them...
Clearly a winning play...
That rig is too small for oil or gas, whoever was drilling for water is goinng to have some serious problems with licence renewal....
And maybe they WERE drilling for oil?
Kind of like illegal eletricity taps down in Manila:
http://images.gmanews.tv/v3/webpics/v3/2013/06/640_2013_06_18_09_45_35.jpg
Nigeria is the place for rogue "oil drilling"...
Not anymore. Royal dutch Shell has left the scene. ;-)
Great, America gets independent of Chinese fireworks.
baking soda should do it - works when i have a grease fire in the kitchen
milf-org
New "normal?" ...Starting to sound like any other mass media prole. just sayin
Don't they have safety people inspecting that stuff? Oh, wait. Its Texas.
city-of-milf...? I'm moving
And up from the ground came a bubblin crude ...
Warren Buffet must have hired some munitions experts - time to roll the trains.
Hopefully this will keep the price of oil up.
Torching a few platforms worked well as a short term price prop-up.
is this the same team that played Tag boom blam with the Tesla plant?
It's always bigger in Texas...
When I was charting "safe" places in the US I had as one parameter that the location must not have any large industrial faclities nearby.
Daniel Plainview will not be happy. On the other hand, Krugman will; lots of broken windows?
Pass the pipe. What, no pipe? Ok, then Long Train Running.
- The Doobie Bros
A pipeleine exploded and many are quick to critisize the safety of piplines and the Keystone project. What do you see in the pictures? How about a burning rig. Obviously they were woring on or near the pipeline or tying in a well to the pipeline. Drilling and oilfield work in general is dangerous. Pipelines crisscross the US and have a very low frequency of failure. How about trains and trucks. No where near the safety record on volumes moved over large distances.
The Pipeline industry claims a safety record to the tune of 0.1% is lost to leaks, do the math....
If I had more time, I would find the link...
I can see the smoke cloud in Dallas. Actually, it looks like its above Irving, do no need to worry.
That's not too far from West, TX.
I can't see south out of my building, but it's clear enough to see to Waxahachie.
That's a pretty impressive cloud then, since Irving is Northwest of Dallas and Milford is south of Waxahachie. So if you can't see south, you can't see to Waxahachie either.
Care to try again?
OH Shit better go fill my tank.
News Headline Summary
Market talk that earlier reports of Milford Texas pipeline being attributed to a Kinder Morgan (KMP) Tennesee gas pipeline - Unfonfirmed
'Market talk' - Signifies information that has not been formally tested through traditional journalistic channels and therefore is to be treated as unsubstantiated. Any interpretation of the talk is taken at the readers own risk and is a representation of the rumours within the market place and never generated by ourselves.
Reaction details:
- KMP shares fell 0.6% in the immediate reaction, moving from USD 81.52 to USD 81.12.
Did some park a Tesla car over near the pipeline? two birds with one stone maybe