Natural gas fire near Houston burns out - September 05, 2004

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industrySeptember 2004

Vol. 9, No. 36

Week of September 05, 2004

Natural gas fire near Houston burns out

The Associated Press

A blaze at a natural gas storage facility northeast of Houston has burned itself out, but authorities could not say how much longer it will take to finish capping the cavern so more than 30 families can return home.

Natural gas being stored in Duke Energy’s Moss Bluff cavern ignited Aug. 19, causing tremors that shook residents from their beds. The blaze finally burned itself out Aug. 25.

On Aug. 26, firefighters worked to weld a new valve system atop the Liberty County storage cavern.

A spokeswoman at Duke Energy, which also operates two other caverns at the storage facility, said the company did not know how much residual gas remains inside the cavern, although most of the 6 billion cubic feet of gas is believed to have been consumed by the fire.

Moss Bluff is a sparsely populated area about 40 miles northeast of Houston.

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