AP Reports Explosion At Susquehanna County Compressor Station

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Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

March 29, 2012 | 2:20 PM

According to the AP, emergency crews are responding to an “explosion” at a natural gas compressor station in Springville Township, Susquehanna County.

SPRINGVILLE, Pa.—Crews are responding to an explosion at a natural gas compressor station in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The state Department of Environmental Protection says natural gas is leaking from the Lathrop compressor station in Springville Township, Susquehanna County.
DEP spokeswoman Colleen Connolly says there are no reports of injuries.
DEP was alerted to the explosion around 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
The compressor station, which is operated by Williams, pressurizes natural gas taken from the Marcellus Shale formation for movement along the pipeline system.

Springville has 58 active producing Marcellus Shale wells, according to StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Shale Play app.
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