JANUARY 9 Chevron pipeline spills 209,000 gallons of crude oil at Kettleman City CA.
FEBRUARY 11 Crude oil pipeline spills 101,000 gallons in Kern County CA.
APRIL 29 Koch pipeline installed in 1927 corrodes and ruptures, spilling 92,000 gallons of crude oil in Castroville TX.
MAY 20 ARCO pipeline spills 213,000 gallons of crude oil in Oakman OK.
MAY 25
Marathon pipeline rupture near Gramercy LA spills 475,000 gallons of gasoline into Blind River, causing extensive environmental damage.
MARCH 28

Texaco pipeline ruptures in San Juaquin Valley CA, spilling 420,00 gallons of crude oil into dry bed of Salt Creek.
MARCH 29 Kansas Power and Light Co. natural gas pipeline explodes.
JUNE 27

Colonial pipeline spills 960,000 gallons of fuel oil into Reedy River near Greenville SC, causing extensive environmental damage.
JULY 6

Natural gas line ruptures, injuring 12 workers repairing a nearby water main.
JULY 24 Natural gas line leak fills an empty house, and resulting explosion and fire requires three hours to contain the blaze, injuring one person.
AUGUST 24

Koch liquid butane pipeline explodes in fireball near Lively TX, killing two teenagers.

Lakehead pipeline spills 210,000 gallons of crude oil in Donaldson, MN.
OCTOBER 7 Natural gas line damaged by contractors explodes in Overland Park KS, destroying a home and injuring its two occupants and another person.
OCTOBER 12 Ignoring pleas to veto it, President Clinton signs Pipeline Safety Act Amendments that seriously weaken pipeline safety regulations.
OCTOBER 23 Tennessee Gas line explodes during dredging of Tiger Pass LA, destroying the tugboat and dredge, but with no fatalities.
NOVEMBER 5 Colonial pipeline ruptures near Murfreesboro TN, spilling 84,700 gallons of diesel fuel, most of which drain into sinkholes and caverns.
NOVEMBER 21

Enron propane line explodes in a department store in Rio Pedras PR, killing 33 persons and injuring 69 — worst U.S. pipeline disaster in recent times.

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