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CUI Major Incident# 14: Missouri natural gas pipeline rupture
Date and Place of Incident:
On August 29, 2008, the natural gas pipeline rupture took place at the Cooper County, Missouri natural gas pipeline
Summary of the Incident:
A gas transmission pipeline of 24-βinch was failed and resulted in release of about 13.5 million CF...
CUI Major Incident# 13: Prudehoe Bay Oil Spill
Date and Place of Incident:
On 29th September 2008, a high-pressure gas pipeline ruptured at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska
Summary of the Incident:
The pipeline burst, propelling two sections of pipe, 14 feet and 28 feet in length, 900 feet across the tundra which caused the spill of 5000...
CUI Major Incident# 12: Marathon Oil Platform Incident
Date and place of Incident:
On 26 December 2015, the explosion occurred at Marathon Oil's Brae Alpha platform, located at 155 miles north east of Aberdeen, UK.
Summary of Incident:
The explosion occurred in eight-inch diameter high pressure pipe of the platform which ruptured and resulted in the...
CUI Major Incident# 11: Yara Ammonia Plant Explosion
Date and Place of Incident:
On 27 June, 2009, an explosion occurred at Yara-owned fertilizer plant in Tertre, Belgium
Summary of the Incident:
The gas fire was occurred in the high-pressure synthesis loop because of the ruptured bypass pipe. The process unit was the ammonia synthesis...
CUI Major Incident# 10: DOW chemical Plant
Data and place of incident:
On March 13, 2008, the explosion was occurred at a Dow’s LHC plant, located at Freeport, TX USA.
Summary of the incident:
The carbon steel hydrocarbon of 8 inch, failed. The incident began with the detection of small pinhole leak. When the line was being isolated...
CUI Major Incident# 9: E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co., Inc. Methyl Chloride Release
Date and Place of Incident:
On January 22 and 23, 2010, three separate incidents of releasing methyl chloride, oleum and phosgene were occurred at the DuPont plant in Belle, WV
Summary of Incident:
- The first incident occurred was the methyl chloride releasing and venting to the atmosphere.
- The...
CUI Major Incident# 7: Donges Refinery Fuel Oil Spill
Date and Place of the Incident:
On March 16, 2008, a fuel oil spill occurred during the loading of a vessel at Donges Refinery, Loire-Atlantique, France.
Summary of the Incident:
- During the loading of an oil tanker, 478 tonnes of cargo fuel oil spilled due to a leak from a corroded pipe line.
- ...
CUI Major Incident# 6: First Chemical Corporation Explosion and Fire
Date and Place of the Incident:
On October 13, 2002, an explosion occurred at the Bayou Cassotte Industrial Park in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Summary of the Incident:
- Steam leaking through manual valves heated mononitrotoluene (MNT) inside a distillation column caused an explosion at First...
CUI Major Incident# 5: Notre-Dame de Gravenchon Butane Release
Notre-Dame de Gravenchon Butane Release
Date and Place of the Incident:
On June 9, 2008, a butane release which lasted approximately 2½ hours occurred at Notre-Dame de Gravenchon, Port-Jerome-Sure-Seine, France.
Summary of the Incident:
- A gas cloud formed in the middle of the steam...
CUI Major Incident# 4: Kawasaki Fuel Oil Leakage
Kawasaki Fuel Oil Leakage
Date and Place of the Incident:
On July 7, 1993, a fuel oil leak occurred during transfer at a refinery in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
Summary of the Incident:
- During loading, fuel oil leaked from a piping of a marine loading equipment.
- The leak occurred from a corroded...
