Human remains found in car that struck Energy Transfer pipeline in Texas
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Texas officials said Thursday they are opening a criminal investigation after human remains were found in a burned-out car that crashed into an Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) natural gas liquids pipeline earlier this week, causing a fire that continues to burn.
The company said the fire continues to safely burn itself out, and that it is in the process of installing isolation equipment.
The fire apparently involves the Justice pipeline, according to researchers at Tudor Pickering Holt, but Energy Transfer (ET) has not confirmed the name or capacity of the pipeline.
The Justice pipeline, with a capacity of 375K bbl/day, carries a Y-grade mixture of natural gas liquids from the Permian and Eagle Ford shale fields in Texas to Energy Transfer’s (ET) Mont Belvieu fractionators.
The adjacent municipality of La Porte, Texas – an industrial suburb ~25 miles east of downtown Houston – has the largest concentration of chemical plants in the world, according to Bloomberg.