Sentence examples for pipelines rupture from inspiring English sources

But there are risks associated with every human endeavor and with every fuel source for generating electricity: coal mines collapse, valleys flood, oil spills and gas pipelines rupture.

The following year, one of its pipelines ruptured in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, causing the largest spill in the North Slope.

The objective of this work is the analysis of underground petroleum product pipelines ruptures with the formation of a ground crater as well as the evaluation of possible domino effects in these cases.

If just one of the pipelines ruptured, it would result in a spill of 1.5 million gallons of oil and that's if Enbridge, the company that owns them, is able to fix the pipeline immediately.

On June 6 , 1970 one of their pipelines ruptured and spilled 19,000 barrels of oil into the river, just 30 kilometers [18 miles] upstream of where the people of Fort McKay fished to feed their families.

On June 6 , 1970 one of their pipelines ruptured and spilled 19,000 barrels of oil into the river, just 30 kilometres upstream of where the people of Fort McKay fished to feed their families.

[C8.] Crude oil futures rose as Iraq reduced exports because of a pipeline rupture.

A pipeline rupture that stanched the flow of gasoline to Phoenix has changed daily life.

"We don't know what made that pipeline rupture," she said.

Crude oil futures rose to a one-month high yesterday as Iraq reduced exports by half for a fourth day because of a pipeline rupture.

In June , 1999 the failure of computer control systems caused a gasoline pipeline rupture in Bellingham, in Washington State; the leaking gasoline ignited into a fireball, killing three people.