Emergency Response – Soil Degas Challenge An underground natural gas pipeline was discovered leaking in a residential area. Although the pipeline owner quickly fixed the leak, much of the soil had become saturated with odorized natural gas. In order to protect the nearby residences and shops, the company needed an engineered solution to degas the soil as quickly as possible. Solution Envent worked with a geotechnical expert to drill 20 wells in the affected area in order to quickly pull the natural gas vapors from the soil. Slotted PVC was placed in each well and manifolded to one of two Envent Mobile Thermal Oxidizer (EMTOS) Systems. Each EMTOS unit was able to continuously pull explosive, odorized vapors from each well and burn them in a controlled environment. After the first day of ope

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