The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia joined forces last year to rebalance the oil market by cutting overall production by 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd).
PHMSA rule RIN 2137-AF06 will propose installation of automatic shutoff valves, remote controlled valves, or equivalent technology and establish performance-based meaningful metrics for rupture detection for gas and liquid transmission pipelines.
The pipeline, designed to carry oil from Canada to refineries in the US, was rejected by US President Barack Obama in November 2016.
Over 30 cars of a freight train derailed near Hyndman, about 100 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. One car was carrying liquefied petroleum gas and additional cars carried other hazardous materials. If the liquefied petroleum gas had been carried in pipelines, the accident might not have occurred.
It is relatively easy to track multiple batches in a pipeline with no elevation changes, and a fixed internal diameter. However, it is far more complex to track multiple batches in a pipeline with drastic elevation changes and many different sizes in diameter.
