TransCanada has inspected nine girth welds on the Keystone pipeline and found them to be sound, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The information released by an ...

Proactive measure taken after review of several international pipeline failures CALGARY, Feb. 21, 2020 /CNW/ - The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) has issued Safety Advisory SA 2020-01 to all its ...

The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an advisory bulletin Mar. 18, 2010, to notify owners and operators of recently constructed large-diameter natural gas pipeline and ...

A mainstay girth weld inspection solution for over a decade, the PipeWIZARD™ iX automated ultrasonic testing (AUT) system has been optimized to redefine pipeline weld joint assessments. Building upon ...

I.1 Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) in pipeline construction verifies the integrity of girth welds, pipe body, and coatings without harming the asset, preventing defects from entering service and ...

The only person who has provided federal investigators with a firsthand account of the relocation of the natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno that blew up half a century later shed new light on the ...

For decades PG&E racked up a pile of internal reports about weld failures and other problems on a natural gas line right next to the San Bruno pipe that ruptured along a shoddy weld in a catastrophic ...

A defective seam weld wasn't the only time bomb lurking in the natural-gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno in September, a newly released federal document shows. The girth welds holding together ...

The catastrophic gas pipeline explosion that leveled a San Bruno neighborhood last September was set in motion 54 years earlier, when construction crews who laid the steel pipe cut corners on welding, ...

Despite the promulgation of multiple standards regarding materials and methods used in pipeline construction and the adoption of these by contractors and operating companies, pipelines can and do fail ...