Welcome back to this special season of Pipeline Things: The Failure Files, where Rhett and Chris delve into significant pipeline incidents throughout history and break down the NTSB failure reports that accompany them.

Today's episode focuses on two different catastrophes on opposite sides of the country. The first begins on the morning of August 19, 2020 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, where a 30-inch natural gas pipeline ruptured and ignited, creating a 51-foot crater about 113 feet along the pipe that burned for 55 minutes. The second takes place twelve years later in Sissonville, West Virginia when a 20-in natural gas transmission pipeline operated by Columbia Gas Transmission failed. Listen to learn how these events are related, the major causes, notable outcomes, prevention strategies, and how the findings from this report have affected recent gas pipeline regulations. 

Highlights:

- What should modern-day IMPs account for? Is there a reason to expand beyond prescribed actions in regulation, and if so, how far?

- What procedures and regulations do we have today as a result of the findings in this NTSB report?

- How did these two incidents affect the definitions of HCAs and MCAs?

Connect:

Rhett Dotson

Christopher De Leon

D2 Integrity

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