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Title: Planned Natural Gas Explosions
Author: N. Roger L
Source: American Gas Association 1994
Year Published: 1994
Abstract: Natural gas is one of the safest hydrocarbon fuels when used in approved appliances. However, due to accident or intent, natural gas can escape into an enclosed space such as a building and, if the conditions for ignition occur, an explosion can be caused. Very little is known about the events leading up to an explosion as evidence is often destroyed making time-line reconstruction very difficult. Canadian Western Natural Gas Company Limited, Calgary, and Northwestern Utilities Limited, Edmonton, joined with the local fire departments and law enforcement agencies and conducted two planned natural gas explosions under controlled safe circumstances. These events were code named HFOG 1 and HFOG 2. The purposes of these projects were:

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