PHMSA bulletin - pipeline safety: lessons learned from the release at Marshall, Michigan

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has issued an advisory bulletin this month on existing regulations and best practices that will help to avoid large scale product loss from pipelines.

PHMSA Safety Recommendation demand more focus on leak detection

The May 06, 2010, National Transportation Safety Board acknowledgment of PHMSA Safety Recommendation P-05-5 is prompting the US pipeline operators without CPM systems to reconsider their options.

PHMSA and DOT met to discuss pipeline safety program

On December 13, 2017, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC) and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Advisory Committee (LPAC) meet to discuss a variety of pipeline safety program and policy issues.

Operator training enhancements for Atmos SIM

Until recently, Atmos SIM functionality has been pretty much exclusively focussed on the hydraulic simulation of pipelines, meaning that a lot of the control and logic required for Operator Trainer projects had to be implemented externally to Atmos SIM, and was often project-specific.

Pennsylvania State to Set Tougher Regulations on Natural Gas Industry

Pennsylvania will soon enforce tougher air-pollution regulations on its thriving natural gas industry. The new regulations will be some of the toughest methane controls in the nation, exceeding federal requirements.