This month's newsletter focuses on Open Path Gas Sensing
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Industry Briefs:. Gas Plant Explosion Injures Three Three people were injured in a natural-gas plant explosion near Midkiff, TX. Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter said three people were injured in the blast at Western Gas Resources, two miles east of Midkiff, just across the Reagan County line. "There was some kind of problem internally with some of the equipment," Painter said. "There was an explosion of gas that had collected." Continue article... Refinery Blaze In New Jersey Register
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Outdoor combustible
gas leaks at large plants pose a danger in the oil/gas, chemical
processing, electric utility and wastewater treatment industries.
Leak sources typically include pipelines, valves, tanks, burners,
compressors, separators, flare systems, aeration ponds and other
equipment. The distributed nature of equipment within these
large facilities often makes traditional point-monitoring gas
detectors either ineffective or cost prohibitive by themselves.