A pipeline carrying a mixture that includes butane runs through South Tulsa and Jenks neighborhoods, beneath roads and backyards, and alongside a building at Jenks Southeast Elementary School.
Retired chemical engineer Fred Storer has spent years raising concerns about the pipeline and the flammable liquid he says is moving through it. FOX23 investigative reporter Janna Clark followed the route from Cushing to the Tulsa area to see where the mixture travels and what nearby residents know about it.
Storer said he first began paying attention to the issue in 2017, when railcars delivered butane to a transloading facility operated by Centennial Energy near downtown Tulsa. The butane was transferred from railcars to semitrailers for transport…