Six standards that affect your pipeline leak detection program

Given the current focus on pipeline safety, leak detection, rupture detection and incident response, here's a summary on the key standards that affect pipeline operators.

Successful application of Atmos Wave on sour gas pipelines

Atmos Wave rarefaction wave leak detection system has been installed and commissioned on three sour gas pipelines in a gas gathering field successfully.

Shortages after New Zealand leak is another reminder that pipelines are critical to our economy

A third-party strike by a mechanical digger last Thursday on the 168-kilometer pipeline has caused a fuel shortage at Auckland airport and the rationing fuel supplies to airlines.

Shell underground oil pipeline spills thousands of gallons in California

Hazardous materials crews are cleaning up as many as 21,000 gallons of oil after a pipeline rupture in Northern California.

Senators push feds to raise liability stakes on Mackinac pipeline

Michigan's two Democratic senators want the Department of Transportation to change the way it regulates oil pipelines crossing underneath the Great Lakes in order to raise the liability stakes should they break and cause a spill.