[ZenGum]

That's not far off the incompetence at the Piper Alpha oil rig fire of Britain.
IIRC, there were two rigs feeding into the same pipe. P.A. blew and the other rig should have been shut down immediately, but managers were under pressure to keep production up, so they kept it pumping ... with the flow going the wrong way up the pipe to Piper Alpha and force feeding fuel onto the already huge fire for hours.