Ghislenghien

Ghislenghien (Dutch: Gellingen; Picard: Guilinguin) is a small town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Ath, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

On 30 July 2004 a high-pressure natural gas pipeline operated at a pressure of 70 bar ruptured following recent third party damage.

[1] It is thought that damage to the pipeline occurred during the final stages of a car park construction project.

This resulted in several evenly spaced (but not full depth) gouges in the steel wall of the pipeline.

Two weeks after the completion of the car park gas pressure was increased in the pipeline, which then ruptured with the fault centred on a 350 mm long gouge.