Calnev pipeline
The Calnev Pipeline is an underground double pipeline in the southwestern United States .
description
The Calnev Pipeline connects the Los Angeles area in California with the Las Vegas area in Nevada and transports petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels from Californian refineries and ports to the east. The western end point is in Colton , the eastern end near Nellis Air Force Base in North Las Vegas . Storage capacities are located in Barstow , and Edwards Air Force Base and McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas are also connected . The route leads through the Mojave Desert and over the Cajon Pass .
The older of the two parallel pipelines is 20 cm (8 inches ) in diameter , the younger is 36 cm (14 inches). The transport capacity is 20,400 m³ per day. The entire system has a length of 890 km. A third pipeline with a length of 375 km and a diameter of 41 cm (16 inches) is in the approval process in 2012. The new route is to largely follow the existing one.
The pipeline is operated by Calnev Pipe Line LLC , a subsidiary of the pipeline owner, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners . This in turn is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan . Until the commissioning of the Unev pipeline from Salt Lake City in Utah to Las Vegas in January 2012, Calnev was the only major supplier of fuel to Nevada.
Incidents
On December 22, 1980, a leak occurred near Las Vegas, presumably as a result of road construction. An estimated 380,000 liters of aircraft fuel flowed from this, which subsequently ignited. A firefighter was slightly injured.
On May 12, 1989, a train accident occurred in San Bernhardino, in which six locomotives and 69 heavily loaded freight wagons fell from a dam onto the area under which the pipeline runs. As part of the clean-up work, the pipeline was slightly damaged without being noticed. The weakening resulted in an explosion thirteen days later on May 25, killing two people and destroying eleven houses.
literature
National Transportation Safety Board : Investigation report on the train crash and the explosion of the pipeline in San Bernhardino , June 19, 1990. (English)
Web links
- Calnev pipeline on the website of Kinder Morgan (English)
- Website to expand the Calnev network with plans
Individual evidence
- ↑ Calnev Pipeline Expansion Project ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Bureau of Land Management , accessed August 14, 2012. (English)
- ↑ Kinder Morgan to Expand CALNEV to Las Vegas . Kinder Morgan Energy Partners press release dated July 23, 2007, accessed August 14, 2012. (English)
- ^ Utah oil products pipeline sending gasoline to Las Vegas . Salt Lake City Tribune , July 16, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2012. (English)
- ↑ Jet fuel leak sparks Vegas fire . Beaver County Times, December 23, 1980. Retrieved August 14, 2012. (English)
