Ensuring the continuing effectiveness of leak detection systems is of paramount importance for pipeline operators in order to meet tightening safety and environmental regulations and to minimize the ...

A new method based on temperature differentials has improved detection of damaged insulation in subsea pipelines carrying high-viscosity crude oil. High-viscosity crude travels in subsea pipelines at ...

Pilot testing in 2000 of an optical interface detector (OID) on a Colonial Pipeline Co. stubline in Georgia has indicated that the detector cannot by itself identify a product type flowing in a ...

The Standing Rock Tribe protested construction of the Dakota Access pipeline near their land. The pipeline was blocked by the Obama administration but then approved after President Trump took office.

A few weeks ago British Petroleum, administrator and partial owner of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay oil field, announced that recent tests had revealed corrosion in the pipeline system and shut down production ...

On May 4, 2023, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (the NPRM) concerning natural gas pipeline leak detection and repair. The move ...

The NOPR proposes several changes to Parts 191, 192 and 193 of PHMSA’s regulations located in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The following section provides a high-level overview of the ...

METTLER TOLEDO Safeline Pipeline metal detectors are designed for inspecting pumped liquids, pastes, slurries, high-viscosity fluids, and vacuum-packed products, ensuring metal contaminated product is ...

Federal pipeline safety regulators have put the time of the incident at 2:30 a.m. Saturday but say the company didn't shut down the pipeline until 6:01 a.m. and didn't report the leak to the Coast ...