Now Bakken Natural Gas Carried In Pipelines Is Spontaneously Exploding

Everyone knows how Bakken crude oil has a propensity to explode when trains carrying the stuff go off the track(s).

It turns out that Bakken natural gas is even more volatile, exploding spontaneously when carried in natural gas pipelines. The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

A natural gas pipeline ruptured and exploded, sending flames shooting high into the sky in far northwestern Minnesota on Monday.

"The flames were over 100 feet in the air so it was really something out there," said Jim Duckstad, the county's 911 coordinator. People who called in said it sounded like a jet engine.

Nobody was injured, but six or seven families living within two miles of the site were evacuated, he said.

The gas line was shut down and the fire extinguished itself around 8:30 a.m., he said.

The pipeline is owned by Viking Gas Transmission Company.

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You have no idea how much I wanted to leave the post above the asterisks "as is," but I was afraid folks from New York City (and maybe even Minnesota) would really believe there is a difference between "Bakken natural gas" and "regular natural gas." So, don't write me. Yes, I know "Bakken natural gas" is not spontaneously exploding in pipelines.

Or is it?