Internal inspection of pipelines is not always economic, prompting development of methods for assessing a pipeline’s current condition based on historic operating and process conditions. Modeling the ...

Canadian oil transport giant Enbridge would no longer have to conduct internal inspections of certain kinds of cracks in its nearly 70-year-old, twin underwater oil and natural gas pipelines in the ...

Technology challenges in the area of pipeline protection are centered on the areas of corrosion detection and inhibition, remote monitoring and risk assessment, and inspecting unpiggable lines. There ...

The line’s structural integrity could be assessed using pipeline inspection gauges, or “pigs,” which are cleaning devices— smart pigs have sensors—that are inserted into an oversized section of pipe, ...

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) in pipeline maintenance is used to detect, size, and characterize metal loss, cracks, geometry defects, and coating/lamination issues without interrupting service or ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. cut its pipeline inspection budget by more than 25 percent in 2009, the year before the deadly San Bruno explosion, and got a warning sign soon afterward with a report ...

A tip led us to a storage yard holding hundreds of pipeline segments in Blanco. The segments will become the Permian Highway Pipeline. The group fighting the pipeline is concerned the anti-corrosion ...

When it comes to robots that perform internal inspections of water pipes, virtually all of them move along on rubber tires or treads. As that rubber grips against the inside of the pipe, however, it ...

The United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) published a January 14th Interpretive Letter clarifying the Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) applicable to ...

The West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo) has announced plans to commence mandatory cleaning and inspection of its offshore pipeline from February 5 to ...