Calnev-Pipeline

The Calnev pipeline is a pipeline running underground double in the southwestern United States.

Description

The Calnev pipeline connects the Los Angeles area in California with the room Las Vegas in Nevada and transports petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel or jet fuel from California refineries and ports to the east. The western terminus is located in Colton, the eastern near Nellis Air Force Base in North Las Vegas. Storage facilities are located in Barstow, also joined the Edwards Air Force Base and the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The route runs through the Mojave Desert and over Cajon Pass.

The older of the two parallel pipes having a diameter of 20 cm (8 inches), the younger of 36 cm (14 inches). The transport capacity is 20,400 cubic meters per day. The overall system has a length of 890 km. A third pipeline with a length of 375 km and a diameter of 41 cm (16 inch) is located in 2012 in the approval process. The new route will largely follow the existing.

It is operated by the pipeline Calnev Pipe Line LLC, a subsidiary of the owner of the pipeline, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners. This in turn is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan. Prior to commissioning the UNEV pipeline from Salt Lake City, Utah to Las Vegas in January 2012 Calnev was the only major supplier of fuel to Nevada.

Incidents

Entered into force on 22 December 1980 probably as a result of road construction, near Las Vegas has a leak. From this flowed estimated up to 380,000 liters of jet fuel, which ignited in the sequence. A firefighter was slightly injured.

On May 12, 1989, in San Bernardino, a rail accident in which six locomotives and 69 freight cars heavily loaded by a dam collapsed on the area under which the pipeline runs occurred. As part of the clean-up work, the pipeline has been slightly damaged but that this would have been noticed. The weakening listed thirteen days later, killed on May 25 in an explosion in which two men and eleven houses were destroyed.

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