Explosion

Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s (TCO) Leach XPress pipeline was still out of service on Thursday, a week after an explosion and fire in Marshall County, WV, knocked out volumes and forced the company to issue a force majeure.

There was no more clarity on Friday about when service might be restored on Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s (TCO) Leach XPress line after an early morning explosion near Moundsville, WV, on Thursday forced the operator to cut capacity to zero, which is stirring up the Appalachian spot market.

Columbia Gas Transmission LLC (TCO) said about 1.3 Bcf/d of firm service could be disrupted indefinitely after an explosion and fire occurred Thursday on the Leach XPress line in Marshall County, WV, prompting the company to issue a force majeure.

Columbia Gas Transmission LLC (TCO) said about 1.3 Bcf/d of firm service could be disrupted indefinitely after an explosion and fire occurred Thursday on the Leach XPress line in Marshall County, WV, prompting the company to issue a force majeure.

Another federal investigative agency has joined crews at the site of a deadly natural gas well explosion in eastern Oklahoma to learn more about what caused the accident.

One person was killed and three people were injured Thursday at an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. oil tanker site in Weld County, CO.

Colorado House Republicans late Monday blocked a bill that would have required operators to provide the location of all their oil and gas subsurface systems in the state.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday called for a statewide review of oil and natural gas operations after an investigation determined that an abandoned and severed unrefined natural gas flowline was linked to a fatal home explosion in Weld County.

At about 12:30 a.m. CST Wednesday, Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) discovered a natural gas release and fire on its Tejas pipeline system in a rural area of Refugio County, TX. The affected pipeline segment was shut down, and company personnel were dispatched to the site, KMI said.