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Table 4

Well ages in hydrocarbon storage leakage events.

Site Date drilled (or debrined) Incident date Time span between creation and accident Comment
Elk City, Oklahoma Unknown. After 1954?? February 23, 1973 19 years? Leak likely started as early as November 1972
Conway, Kansas Beginning 1951 After 1956 5–60 years The described accident in 2012
Yoder, Kansas – Idem June 30, 1980 30 years or more
Mont Belvieu, Texas 1963 September 17, 1980 (wellhead pressure drop) 17 years October 3, 1980 (fire)
Mineola, Texas End of 1950’s 2000? 50 years Paper written in 2001
Hutchinson, Kansas Drilled in 1980; Re-drilled in 1990 January 19, 2001 20 years
Epe, Germany 1980 February 23, 2014 34 years
Magnolia, Louisiana 1970’s December 24, 2003 33 years 6 weeks after repressurization
Eminence, Mississippi 1970–1973 26 December 2010 37–40 years
Teutschenthal 1971 March 29, 1988 c. 17 years
Boling, Texas End of January 1983 (de-brined) Fall 2005 c. 22 years
Clute, Texas Leached out in 1961 December 1988 c. 27 years

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