Natural gas pipeline rupture : TransCanada Pipelines Limited, line 100-2, 864-millimetre (34-inch) mainline, kilometre post mainline valve 39-2, +6.07 kilometres, St. Norbert, Manitoba, 15 April 1996.: TU4-38/2013E-PDF
"At 1815 eastern standard time (EST), on 15 April 1996, a rupture, followed by an explosion and fire at 1829 EST, occurred on the TransCanada PipeLines Limited 864-millimetre (34-inch) natural gas pipeline, at Kilometre Post Mainline Valve 39-2 + 6.07 kilometres, 10 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, near the town of St. Norbert, Manitoba. The Board determined that the rupture of Line 100-2 was caused by a ductile overload fracture, the result of high external stresses on the surface of the pipeline; stresses which were, in turn, the result of movement of the slope in which the pipe was buried. The rupture was assisted by the existence of an environmentally assisted crack at the toe of the circumferential weld that connected two joints of pipe together. There is the possibility that the initial crack could have been present since the original construction of that section of the pipeline"--Synopsis.
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| Title | Natural gas pipeline rupture : TransCanada Pipelines Limited, line 100-2, 864-millimetre (34-inch) mainline, kilometre post mainline valve 39-2, +6.07 kilometres, St. Norbert, Manitoba, 15 April 1996. |
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| Description | 39 p. : ill. |
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