But after an anxious 25 minute wait, the flash igniters set up around the leaking gas pipe failed to go off.
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So in your opinion, President Lee, do you think that the gas line pipe project will be able to proceed without resolving the North Korean nuclear issue?
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GAIL, signed a deal to pipe gas from Myanmar along a new pipeline.
It needs a stable Somaliland to pipe gas from a newly found field in the east to the coast.
INPEX, a Japanese company, plans to pipe gas from the Ichthys field, under the Indian Ocean, and process it in Darwin for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2016.
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Yet, another story says the hunters smelled gas, banged a pipe into the ground and then lit it.
Mr. Morrison listed five near-miss incidents in November and December, including one in which natural gas escaped from a pipe aboard BP's Pompano platform, threatening an explosion.
She also disposed of evidence including the hose pipe used to gas their spouses, it was claimed.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said no-one can be blamed for gas igniting from a fractured pipe.
At Elias, a completed Chevron operation, the only sound to disturb the replanted clover meadow is a faint whooshing as gas passes to an underground pipe network.
The friction caused by the gas bubble pushing up the pipe and displacing the drilling mud used to control the pressure could have created a static charge that ignited the gas into a fireball.
Mrs Merkel took pains to dispel this idea, turning down a Russian proposal to add a third pipe to the Baltic gas pipeline.
The facility, which is called a "gas governor" and consists of a large slab of concrete, a flue pipe and a control box, is intended to regulate gas supply in the area.
Luxembourg-based Tenaris sells seamless steel pipe products to oil and gas companies.
She drugged her husband, allowed Howell into her house and disposed of a hose pipe used by Howell to gas Trevor Buchanan the night he was murdered.
That catalog also contains neon signs, gas pumps and a 1927 Aeolian residential pipe organ so large it formerly occupied two rooms in a mansion in Walnut Lake, Mich.
In its update yesterday, McMoran says it is injecting a barite solvent to clean out the perforations, or holes in the drill pipe, through which the gas will flow.
Think about what this advancement has meant just in terms of access to the resources: When drilling into a hydrocarbon bearing formation 100 feet thick, vertical drilling would allow an operator to contact 100 feet of rock, which would limit your potential recovery to whatever oil or gas would flow into that length of pipe.
The HSE investigation focussed on the possibility of a faulty gas distribution system and found the cast iron mains pipe was sunk in sandy-gravelly soil that was classified as "very aggressive" to "moderately corrosive".
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About 40 gas engineers worked through the night to repair the fractured pipe, according to United Utilities.
Over the weekend BP successfully mounted a pipe to siphon some of the oil and gas from the leaking wild well.
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They had been looking for oil and lacked the technology back then to extract gas from waters more than 3000 feet deep, or pipe it ashore for conversion to LNG.
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In September 2008, a high-pressure natural gas pipeline operated by BP ruptured, sending two segments of pipe flying 900 feet across the tundra.
If a government-mandated market for pollution offsets ever materializes, the 26-inch pipe hauling away carbon would be able to handle the plant's waste gas and another 5 million tons from other sources in New Jersey.
Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.
The seawater down there is so cold that when natural gas bubbles out of the well into the water it forms methane hydrates, which clog the uptake pipe.
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The mains gas was being operated within normal pressure parameters and there were no signs to suggest the 20th Century pipe needed replacing urgently, although there were national plans to replace pipe networks whenever they came within 30m of a domestic building.
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