The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has identified the use of ‘manual valves’ in discharging liquefied petroleum gas from a tanker truck into a storage tank as the possible cause of last Saturday’s gas explosion at Atomic Junction.
It said in a statement Monday that its findings into the possible cause of the explosions that left seven people dead and 132 injured, points to the absence of a proper dislodge device [suction pumps] at the station.
A gas leak from one of two gas fuel stations within the Atomic Junction enclave reportedly sparked fire, which extended to an adjoining Total Filling Station causing two explosions that sent fireballs into the skies last Saturday.
Hundreds of passengers, traders and residents in and around the Atomic Junction area fled their homes and workplaces for safety as two explosions lit the skies and caused severe heat waves Saturday night.
According to the Chamber, the absence of such device caused the tanker driver to use “a rather dangerous mechanical process of dislodging the products using manual valves on the engine of the BRV [gas tanker truck]”.
It observed that there were other gas fuel stations in the country which do not have suction pumps for dislodging LPG, noting such stations have very little regard for standard operating procedures.
Source: 3news
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Very well said. Now this is the Technical reason that make a lot of sense than IMANI and others jumping to propose a business model from India. We love copying blindly without looking at our problems and finding solutions to it. Most of the times all that our so called "educated" people do is to propose solutions that will suit them either to keep their political office or something they can create business opportunity from to keep enriching themselves. There are several thousands of gas bottling filling station in France and Belgium and several countries in Europe like we have in Ghana close to residential and business areas but they do not compromise on safety. You have to follow it, period. It does not depend on how close the stations are to each other. It is safety standard that creates the safety environment. We have to get to the bottom of the cause and stop sensational and emotional statement. Our regulatory and monitoring institutions are not doing the right thing. its a shame.
So you guys know all of these and wouldn't enforce that automatic valves should be used on tankers? And then you blame a poor khebab seller as he cause of the fire. All those connected is this malpractice should be sent to court to answer for the deaths that resulted from the explosion.