Happening in real time in Southern California: a natural gas leak that recalls the Deepwater Horizon oilrig explosion of 2010

摘要

Detected 22 October, a gas leak some 25 miles from downtown Los Angeles was still uncontained at the New Year, when engineers said it would likely take another three to four months even to identify the source with absolute certainty. A preliminary Southern California Gas Co analysis pointed to the failure of a well casing that deposits methane, the main component of natural gas, into an enormous underground storage field at the company's Aliso Canyon facility.