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The 2011 Nairobi pipeline fire was caused by an explosion secondary to a fuel spill in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September 2011. [1] Approximately 100 people were killed in the fire and at least 116 others were hospitalized with varying degrees of burns. [2] The incident was not the first such pipeline accident in Kenya, [1] with the ...
In September 2011 at least 75 people burned [9] to death after a petrol fire broke out in the division. [10] The fire started when a fuel tank at a depot belonging to the Kenya Pipeline Company , spilled fuel into an open sewer running through Embakasi.
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Length. 1,100 mi (1,800 km) The Kenya–Uganda–Rwanda Petroleum Products Pipeline is a pipeline that carries refined petroleum products from the Kenyan port city of Mombasa to the country's capital of Nairobi and continues to the city of Eldoret in the Eastern Rift Valley. There are plans to extend the pipeline to Uganda 's capital, Kampala ...
The Kenya Pipeline Company was incorporated on 6 September 1973 and started commercial operations in 1978. The company is a state corporation under the Ministry of Energy with 100% government shareholding. Kenya Pipeline Company operates a pipeline system for transportation of refined petroleum products from Mombasa to Nairobi and western Kenya ...
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
At 9:55 a.m. this morning, the City of La Porte Fire Department was dispatched to a fire in the 8700 block of Spencer... Posted by La Porte Office of Emergency Management on Monday, September 16, 2024
On 20 September 2011, less than 10 days after the 2011 Nairobi pipeline fire, a tanker carrying gasoline from Kisumi to Busia overturned, spilling its contents. Four people were killed and 35 injured when the oil tanker exploded.