Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGPL) is a set of natural gas pipelines which run from the Gulf of Mexico coast in Texas and Louisiana through Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to deliver natural gas in West Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and New England. The pipelines were constructed by Tennessee Gas Transmission Company (TGT) beginning in 1943. Tenneco which owned TGT eventually sold off this pipeline which is now owned by El Paso Corporation. It is one of the largest pipeline systems in the United States. Its FERC code is 9.[1]
A pipeline in Columbiana County, Ohio (in eastern Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, between Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh) on Thursday, February 10, 2011, shot flames 200 feet into the air that were visible for 40 miles, and, before gas lines were shut down and it was put out, caused brush fires for a time. No fatalities or injuries were reported, and evacuated residents were returning to their homes by the next day. Another explosion happened on the morning of November 16, 2011 in Southeast Ohio.