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In May 2017, Atmos International attended the 48th annual PSIG Annual Conference held in Atlanta Georgia USA.
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.
When pipeline incidents occur, most harm to people, property, and the environment is in High Consequence Areas (HCAs) with a significant population, water, or other sensitive natural resources.
Pipelines companies would benefit from policies to manage the integrity, availability, usability of data and could use it to meet the PHMSA requirements and to improve the efficiency of their operations.
The pipeline, designed to carry oil from Canada to refineries in the US, was rejected by US President Barack Obama in November 2016.