A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) found pipelines and barges to have more comprehensive safety systems than train transportation systems.
The Permian Basin is expected to add enormous volumes this year, but its pipeline network is filling up fast.
State-owned pipelines company, PEMEX, detected a total of 10,363 illegal taps in 2017, an overage of 28 illegal tapping-points detected per day
The Mexican government increased fuel prices by 20% on New Year’s Day. The increase is the largest in almost two decades and brings the years of subsidies keeping gasoline cheap to an end. It comes as economists predict Mexico’s slowest growth in four years, and is intended to help stabilize the rising levels of public debt, and to encourage competition and private investment in the fuel market.
Atmos Data Manager is a powerful system interfacing and data logging/validation facility, which can provide both pipeline and process industries with a hassle-free interface for existing and new pipeline application and control systems such as SCADA/DCS. It is a flexible tool for integrating both process and management information across an entire enterprise.
