Shell investigates accidental severing of gas pipe at Corrib terminal

the culture of deference

Shell E&P Ireland has said it is conducting an internal investigation, following the inadvertent cutting of a gas pipe at the Corrib gas terminal earlier this month.

The incident resulted in nitrogen being released into the atmosphere.
As a precaution, all nitrogen was “vented off”, according to the company.


The Ballinaboy terminal built to refine gas from the Corrib gas field is not yet active, as work is still continuing on the last section of the project – the onshore pipeline, low pressure nitrogen has been pumped through pipes laid at the terminal to prevent corrosion.


The company has been criticised by the campaign group Shell to Sea for failing to make the incident public after it occurred on April 8th.


The multinational told the radio station the incident posed “no danger to the environment”, and said it was investigating the circumstances.


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told The Irish Times it had not been informed, but that there was no obligation on the company to do so as “licensable activities” had not actually started.


Mr Condon said Shell did provide the local authority with information on the incident, but could not state when this occurred..
Shell to Sea spokeswoman Maura Harrington said “Shell, despite all their talk of being ‘good neighbours’, said nothing to anyone” until the radio station was alerted.


http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/shell-investigates-accidental-severing-of-gas-pipe-at-corrib-terminal-1.1366302

Cienciano

Ohhh, a nitrogen leak. This is up there with the Bhopal disaster

bonzodog2

the culture of deference wrote: »

The incident resulted in nitrogen being released into the atmosphere.
As a precaution, all nitrogen was “vented off”, according to the company.

You do know the atmosphere is 79% Nitrogen ?

Paulzx

Jeez............before we know it they'll be releasing oxygen next and not telling us.


Apocalypse Mayo

Technoprisoner

bonzodog2 wrote: »

You do know the atmosphere is 79% Nitrogen ?

i dont think thats the point we should be worried about....what we should be worried about is that the pipe is obviously not safe and what will happen when gas is passed through it and the pipe fails again?

Paulzx

Technoprisoner wrote: »

i dont think thats the point we should be worried about....what we should be worried about is that the pipe is obviously not safe and what will happen when gas is passed through it and the pipe fails again?

Did you read the article?


It didn't fail. Some spanner cut it

Technoprisoner

Paulzx wrote: »

Did you read the article?


It didn't fail. Some spanner cut it

maybe their spanners should be better trained then if they are going to be working with gas ?

Robbo

Cienciano wrote: »

Ohhh, a nitrogen leak. This is up there with the Bhopal disaster

A post industrial wasteland of luscious greener-than-usual-grass?

Also, in before that video where the Norwegian people are vox popped with a fact-free diatribe about oil and gas in Ireland.

Peregrine

Technoprisoner wrote: »

maybe their spanners should be better trained then if they are going to be working with gas ?

Do we really need to make a hype over a mistake made by an employee? Not a dangerous one I should stress

Technoprisoner

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Do we really need to make a hype over a mistake made by an employee? Not a dangerous one I should stress

it was a mistake which could of been devistating to human life and nature if gas had been flowing

Paulzx

Technoprisoner wrote: »

it was a mistake which could of been devistating to human life and nature if gas had been flowing

Somehow i don't think they'll be cutting pipes when the oul gas is flowing through them


.................Unless someones going for a Darwin award

Death and Taxes

Technoprisoner wrote: »

maybe their spanners should be better trained then if they are going to be working with gas ?

They are not working with gas!
Mountains out of molehills!

Death and Taxes

Technoprisoner wrote: »

it was a mistake which could of been devistating to human life and nature if gas had been flowing

A mistake that couldn't happen where our gas thankfully comes ashore desite the best efforts of a handful of economic sabotuers and luddites.

squod

The incident, which occurred during work on water pipes at the terminal site in north Mayo, resulted in nitrogen being released into the atmosphere.

I'll just cut this pipe here. It's probably only water, be grand. Fast forward two years and this ejit and the ejit who let him near the place are dead.

Technoprisoner

yes they were working on water pipes and cut the worng pipe....what sort of donkeys have they got working for them?

Fred Cohen

WileyCoyote wrote: »

A mistake that couldn't happen where our gas thankfully comes ashore desite the best efforts of a handful of economic sabotuers and luddites.

Not our gas though, is it?

This thread is so stupid

joe swanson

Ridiculous thread with ridiculous agenda.

galwayrush

Technoprisoner wrote: »

yes they were working on water pipes and cut the worng pipe....what sort of donkeys have they got working for them?

Leave our politicans out of it..:pac:

mathepac

WileyCoyote wrote: »

They are not working with gas! ...

The last time I checked, nitrogen, at normal temperature and pressure, was a gas. Maybe they should paint the gas pipes flourescent orange and only hire plumbers / fitters that are not colour-blind or stupid.

Peregrine

mathepac wrote: »

The last time I checked, nitrogen, at normal temperature and pressure, was a gas. Maybe they should paint the gas pipes flourescent orange and only hire plumbers / fitters that are not colour-blind or stupid.

So is oxygen

Pedro K

I was working in a bar years ago, and there was a regular who had a half pint of Guinness. He had a half pint because he claimed the nitrogen injected into the pint as part of the two step pour of a pint gave him headaches. He didn't know what to say when I told him ~78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen.

Fr_Fitzexactly

If I was living near the gas pipe I'd drill a hole in it with a hammer drill from Lidl or aldi and a masonry drill bit and shove in a plastic tube, seal around the hole with silicone

Keep the SuperSer, Gas boiler, Awh-Gaw (I'm posh) and a modified honda generator going so I can give ESB/Electric Ireland and Airtricity the road as well.

mathepac

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

So is oxygen

Shell have an oxygen pipeline as well as a nitrogen one? Well holy god don't that bate Bannagher?

NuckingFacker

Fr_Fitzexactly wrote: »

If I was living near the gas pipe I'd drill a hole in it with a hammer drill from Lidl or aldi and a masonry drill bit and shove in a plastic tube, seal around the hole with silicone

Keep the SuperSer, Gas boiler, Awh-Gaw (I'm posh) and a modified honda generator going so I can give ESB/Electric Ireland and Airtricity the road as well.

You should do a test run with drilling into your garden hose. Report back if the silicone holds. You do realise that gas pipes are operating at quite high pressures, right? It might take a bit more than silicone..

stoneill

NuckingFacker wrote: »

You should do a test run with drilling into your garden hose. Report back if the silicone holds. You do realise that gas pipes are operating at quite high pressures, right? It might take a bit more than silicone..

Duct tape -

Fr_Fitzexactly

NuckingFacker wrote: »

You should do a test run with drilling into your garden hose. Report back if the silicone holds. You do realise that gas pipes are operating at quite high pressures, right? It might take a bit more than silicone..

Garden hose isn't ideal because its so flexible. I might strap a brass fitting onto the pipe with a few steel bands. Seal it up nicely with a bit of mastic or silicone and drill the hole in after. It would be worth investing a few pound in this because you could spend the rest of your days with no uTility bills. It would be awkward signing up for a bank account or a mobile phone contract though

the culture of deference

bonzodog2 wrote: »

You do know the atmosphere is 79% Nitrogen ?

Yes as it's in the article already, so fair play for failing to read it.

However, as there is normally over 78 per cent nitrogen in the atmosphere, it was not a cause for concern, he said.

Paulzx wrote: »

Did you read the article?


It didn't fail. Some spanner cut it

The main issue here is that the company failed to make the incident public after it occurred on April 8th. It came to light when a resident alerted Midwest Radio.


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told The Irish Times it had not been informed, but that there was no obligation on the company to do so as “licensable activities” had not actually started.

RayCon

Paulzx wrote: »

It didn't fail. Some spanner cut it

A spanner that can cut ? ... gots to get me one of those

Seedy Arling

I accidentally released a noxious gas today. Fcuking cleared the office.

Rented Mule

Cienciano wrote: »

Ohhh, a nitrogen leak. This is up there with the Bhopal disaster

Give it time.

Death and Taxes

Seedy Arling wrote: »

I accidentally released a noxious gas today. Fcuking cleared the office.

Did you notify the EPA?

stoneill

Although nitrogen makes up the bulk of out atmosphere you do need oxygen to breathe.
It is possible to have a nitrogen leak, a gas that is non toxic, but it can cause an oxygen deficient atmosphere and cause
asphyxiation. In a confined space of a warehouse or maintenance room, a release of high pressure nitrogen can cause death due to diluting the ambient atmosphere and making the oxygen content drop below 16% which is about the lowest limit to sustain life.