2023-04-30 03:16:15
CORINTH, Mississippi (AP) — Natural gas has resumed flowing through a pipeline that caught a massive fire in Mississippi on Friday that authorities possibly blamed on a lightning strike.
The company that owns the pipeline, TC Energy Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, said Saturday it had “completed operational adjustments.”
The Canadian company notified its customers through an electronic system that it decided to cancel the force majeure provision that it had declared on Friday.
The contractual conditions allow the pipeline to reduce deliveries in circumstances beyond the firm’s control.
Tina Faraca, president of TC Energy’s US Natural Gas unit, told investors on a conference call Friday that the fire had “very minimal impact on the facility.”
Alcorn County Emergency Management Director Ricky Gibens told local media that firefighters were called around 1 a.m. Friday to the Columbia Gulf Transmission Pipeline compressor station. in a sector northeast of Corinth.
Gibens said lightning appeared to have punctured part of the pipeline and ignited the natural gas.
Firefighters and TC Energy workers closed the valves, preventing a possible explosion, he added.
The fire lasted more than four hours until the firefighters managed to put it out.
Local resident Philip Trest told WTVA-TV that the flames were rising above the treetops and making the sound of a jet engine. There were no injuries.
The compressor station is used to pump natural gas through the Columbia Gulf Transmission Pipeline, which runs between Kentucky and Louisiana.
The pipeline transports natural gas from the southern Appalachian Mountains to natural gas liquefaction terminals in Louisiana, where it is frozen to make it liquid and loaded onto giant ships for export.
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