Saturday, July 23, 2016

Natural gas leaked from an abandoned gas line Thursday at the Sinclair refinery in Evansville, Wyoming after construction crew broke a gas line


No injuries at Sinclair Casper Refinery after leak from abandoned gas line

Heather Richards 307-266-0592, Heather.Richards@trib.com
Updated 19 hrs ago

There are several construction projects going on at the refinery and at 9 am Thursday, an excavator accidentally punctured a gas line, that was thought to be abandoned.
It turns out, it wasn’t and there was a gas leak, and the plant alerted the Emergency Response Team. They were able to isolate area and stop the leak.
During that time, no one could enter the facility, and even railroad traffic was halted. The accident was on the company property, but not in the refinery itself.
No one was injured, and refinery operations were not interrupted.


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Vapors leaked from an abandoned gas line Thursday at the Sinclair refinery in Evansville, the company said.


No injuries have been reported, and the seepage has since stopped, said Clint Ensign, senior vice president of government relations for the company.


Workers were excavating on the refinery property when they discovered the unused line. During an attempt to remove the line, employees detected escaped vapors.


Sinclair’s emergency response unit was called, entry to the refinery was shut down and a passing freight train was held up, Ensign said.



The Salt Lake City-based company is meeting with Tall Grass Energy, a nearby company, on Monday to address the abandoned line.


The Evansville refinery has not had a lost time injury for about four years, refinery manager Jim Ruble told the Star-Tribune in April. The facility opened in 1923.


Sinclair was fined by the Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration multiple times between 2012 and 2014 after a number of safety violations, explosions and fires at the company’s Rawlins refinery.