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  • Published: 10 Dec 2025

Safer Together: Methane gas leak due to a snapped nipple

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Description of Incident

A wellsite operator heard an audible leak of methane gas while at a wellsite to complete a separator dump. The source of the leak was from a snapped nipple (½ inch - DN15) at the base of an instrument on the non-productive side of the wellhead.

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