About 100 miles east of the site where the Enbridge Inc. pipeline recently ruptured, company officials in December 2009 found an anomaly in the same line that led them to reduce the pressure there by ...

A few weeks ago British Petroleum, administrator and partial owner of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay oil field, announced that recent tests had revealed corrosion in the pipeline system and shut down production ...

Pipeline defect analysis and assessment remains a critical area of research, given its direct impact on the safety and reliability of energy transportation infrastructures. Mechanical defects such as ...

As regulatory and safety bodies, such as the US Department of Transportation's Office of Pipeline Safety, increasingly emphasize risk management as a tool in pipeline operation and maintenance, ...

At-a-Glance: Machine learning streamlines pipeline inspections by automating signal interpretation, predicting defect growth, and prioritizing digs—cutting cycle time, false alarms, and OPEX while ...

This concluding article of two focuses on application of a reliability-based pipeline condition-assessment methodology to the assessment of an in-service corroded oil pipeline. Part 1, in last week's ...

A series of weld defects has been found in detailed studies of the high-pressure gas pipeline that exploded last year in a San Bruno neighborhood, killing eight and destroying dozens of homes, federal ...