Posted on 01/02/2014 4:28:41 PM PST by rickmichaels
A top transportation safety regulator warned on Thursday that the type of crude oil that exploded rail cars in Lac-Mégantic, Que., last year is more flammable that other forms of oil and needs more careful treatment.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation, warned Thursday in a safety alert that "recent derailments and resulting fires indicate that the type of crude oil being transported from the Bakken region may be more flammable than traditional heavy crude oil."
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Petroleum burns, who would’a thunk it?
What a crock of crap!
Most crudes seem to be full of straight run gasoline and lighter stuff.
Probably thinking of Asphalt.
Maybe it’s purer. Seriously, the answer to the problem is the pipeline that our nitwit POTUS keeps vetoing.
It’s not your fault, it’s not my fault, it’s the asphault...
Everybody knows 42 gravity West Texas Sweet doesn’t burn.
Bammy's fault (no pipelines FOR YOU!) ---> assphault.
Yeah, but different crudes have different ratios of hydrocarbon molecules.
Basic refining is really fractional distillation.
So, heating a load of crude, you'll get, starting with the smallest HC molecule to the largest - methane, ethane (acetylene), propane, butane, gasoline, kerosene (jet fuel), #2 fuel oil (diesel), motor oils, heavy oils, tar, and asphalt among other products I've forgotten.
Hence, the market variations for any given crude depending on what is in demand, and what refinery capacity is tuned to get what out of a particular crude oil composition.
Apparently, the volatility of Bakken crude suggests that the ratio skews towards the gases, gasolines, and kerosenes, rather than tar and asphalt.
“A top transportation safety regulator warned...”
The top transportation safety regulator has no name and no credentials and thus this inane warning cannot be properly attributed to a warm body.
Confirm please...
Put some Ethanol in it, that will slow it down.
love the head 2 desk. my first thought about regulating the boom, too.
A top Marxist transportation official warned that Baakan oil is bad and needs to be stopped.
Pray America is Waking
I saw a bottle of Bakken crude, it was crystal clear, light brown/green, and about the same viscosity as #2 diesel. It smelled like #2 diesel too. It’s so good some people in the Bakken fields run the crude in their diesel engines straight out of the wells.
Liberals make my head hurt.
In most worlds, thats considered a good thing.
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