What happened last week at a disposal well outside of Pearsall, Texas? An explosion rocked the site early Thursday evening — about 50 miles southwest of San Antonio in the Eagle Ford Shale — blowing the lid off a storage tank and injuring three. A fire burned for over an hour as the all-volunteer Pearsall Fire Department (and three other nearby departments) battled the flames with twelve trucks and 33 firefighters.
The explosion likely started when workers there were welding near storage tanks, a decision that has many in the industry scratching their heads. The accident is now under federal investigation.
But there’s still much we don’t know.
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