Gas well blast leaves 1 missing, 4 injured
By Richard Fu |
December 23, 2011, Friday
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A gas well operated by CNPC in southwestern China caught fire and exploded early yesterday, leaving one person missing and four hospitalized, in the latest of a string of accidents plaguing the nation's energy industry.
The explosion happened at 3:30am at the Qionglai 1 well at a field in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and the fire had been brought under control, China National Petroleum Corp said in a statement on its website.
One person was missing and one slightly injured, CNPC said. But later a Xinhua report said four were injured and hospitalized.
Local residents who had been evacuated were returning home later in the day, the company said, adding the leaked gas didn't contain hydrogen sulfide, which could be fatal if inhaled.
CNPC, parent of PetroChina Co, said the cause of the explosion was under investigation. Production was not expected to be affected because the well was exploratory, company officials said.
The blast was at least the second major accident for major Chinese energy companies in a week. Offshore oil producer CNOOC Ltd said Monday that a leak in a subsea gas pipeline had forced it to close production at two fields in the South China Sea.
In December 2003, a gas well blowout at the Chuandongbei gas field in Kaixian County in Chongqing, also operated by CNPC, claimed 243 lives and hospitalized thousands. That accident forced Ma Fucai, CNPC's president, to resign.
The explosion happened at 3:30am at the Qionglai 1 well at a field in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and the fire had been brought under control, China National Petroleum Corp said in a statement on its website.
One person was missing and one slightly injured, CNPC said. But later a Xinhua report said four were injured and hospitalized.
Local residents who had been evacuated were returning home later in the day, the company said, adding the leaked gas didn't contain hydrogen sulfide, which could be fatal if inhaled.
CNPC, parent of PetroChina Co, said the cause of the explosion was under investigation. Production was not expected to be affected because the well was exploratory, company officials said.
The blast was at least the second major accident for major Chinese energy companies in a week. Offshore oil producer CNOOC Ltd said Monday that a leak in a subsea gas pipeline had forced it to close production at two fields in the South China Sea.
In December 2003, a gas well blowout at the Chuandongbei gas field in Kaixian County in Chongqing, also operated by CNPC, claimed 243 lives and hospitalized thousands. That accident forced Ma Fucai, CNPC's president, to resign.
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