Technology/R&D
Smart-Connected Pipeline Serves as Critical Step in Journey to Success
Smart technology can make pipeline construction projects a success.
Cleaning, Maintaining, Inspecting all Part of a Day’s Work
Pipeline cleaning on the rise due to regulations and cost effectiveness.
How Pipeline Isolation Tools Save Time and Money
How Isolation tools save pipeline operators time and money.
Advanced Mobile Leak Survey Technology: An Operator’s Perspective
A pipeline operator gives his perspective on advanced mobile leak survey technology for pipeline inspections of construction projects.
Management Remains Key Issue in Pipeline Safety
Ensuring the safety of a pipeline construction project requires an effective management system.
Drilling Deep for Increased Safety
Drilling deep helps pipeline operator increase safety.
Haydale Graphene Industries Awarded Contract Extension By National Grid
Haydale Composite Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Haydale Graphene Industries plc, has been awarded a £310,000 contract extension by National Grid to design and develop 14 different Gas Transition Piece (GTP) solutions for seven different pipeline diameters from 300-1050mm and for two ..
Illusense Secures $1.6M Funding from Sustainable Development Technologies Canada
Illusense Inc. has secured a $1.6 million funding commitment from Sustainable Development Technologies Canada (SDTC). Adrian Banica, Illusense Executive Chairman stated, “We are very pleased with the financial and strategic support we have received from SDTC. With fossil fuels expected to be part o..
GIS – Improving Pipeline Risk Assessment
While geographic information systems (GIS) have been around in commercial form since the early 1980s, subsequent technologies for data capture, storage and processing have improved rapidly in both resolution and scope. In terms of data capture, technologies that explicitly incorporate spatial refere..
AGA White Paper: Reducing Pipeline Damages from the Use of Horizontal Directional Drilling
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Orifice Meter Inspection - An Important but Forgotten Part of Measurement
You attended standards meetings and various measurement schools around the globe and met with your engineering peers to design the most cost-effective meter runs or meter stations. You believe everything is designed as best as it could be. The product is inspected prior to release and acceptance at ..
Trellis Energy Enables NAESB 3.0 Compliance for Natural Gas Pipelines
Trellis Energy has announced that the company’s Trellis 6.0 is the first natural gas transaction management solution to become 100 percent compliant with the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) Wholesale Gas Quadrant Standards version 3.0. NAESB is an industry forum that develops ..
QS Energy's AOT Crude Oil Pipeline Optimization Technology Under Consideration by Middle East Oil Producers
QS Energy, Inc. is engaged in discussions with two of the world’s largest crude oil producing nations in the Middle East to provide deployment strategies for the Company’s AOT Viscosity/Pressure Drop Reduction technology. Under a non-disclosure agreement with one of these entities, QS Energy will be..
Hydratight Secures New Contract with Statoil
Subsea connector specialist Hydratight has secured a four-year contract with Statoil Petroleum AS to supply products, services and management for remote pipeline repairs worldwide. Hydratight’s MORGRIP® contingency connectors will be the primary mechanical repair method within Statoil’s Pipeline Re..
SwRI Wins DOE Funding to Advance Gas-Fired Power Plants
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), of San Antonio, is a member of three teams awarded about $18.2 total funding by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory to develop technologies advancing power generation. The initiative to improve gas turbine components and super-c..
Different Perspective on Custody Transfer Measurement
Custody transfer measurement in the petroleum industry has been described many ways. It’s been called “an accuracy in measurement both the buyers and sellers can agree upon,” or sometimes described as “the best that can be achieved to meet the contract conditions.” There are many other descriptions ..
Tracking Pipeline Production and Inventories
Since the collapse of oil and gas prices after August 2014, North American pipeline companies have been under pressure to cut costs. For example, Cushing marketplace pipeline earlier this year dropped its already discounted rate for shipping light crude, by another 10% to $2.50 a barrel. The Aleria..
Automating Hydraulic Simulations of Large Number of Scenarios
As PG&E and other utilities perform unparalleled levels of safety-related work on gas transmission systems, frequent and complex pipeline system outages occur throughout the year. This safety work also carries the potential of pressure reductions due to previously undetected system anomalies in the ..
NGL Measurement: Direct and Inferred Mass
Natural gas liquid (NGL) streams consist of mixtures of hydrocarbons including ethane, propane, butane, pentane and natural gasoline. NGL is sometimes referred to as y-grade. The American Petroleum Institute (API) Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (MPMS) Chapter 14, Section 7 provides guidan..
Safest Way to Perform Integrity Assessments
Pipeline operators and integrity engineers are facing increasing pressure from regulatory authorities and environmental groups to guarantee pipeline network integrity. This is why it is so important to understand the condition of their assets and perform the necessary inspections to correct potentia..
DOE Announces $16 Million for 54 Projects to Help Commercialize Promising Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide nearly $16 million in funding to help businesses move promising energy technologies from DOE’s National Laboratories to the marketplace. This first Department-wide round of funding through the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) will support 54 pr..
New Tool Helps Pipeline Operators Overcome Pressing Pipeline Issues
T.D. Williamson introduces Solutions Engine, a digital research tool for pipeline owners and operators that delivers targeted answers to more than 80 integrity and throughput challenges# From mechanical damage and corrosion to tie-ins and leaking valves, pipeline owners and operators face a multitu..
Side-by-Side HDDs Effective On Gas Line Replacement
PG&E began work in September 2014 to replace two aging natural gas pipelines that cross Cache Creek near the town of Capay, CA. In September 2015, the HDD Company completed two directional drills on the project, replacing the pipeline that had been exposed on the bottom of Cache Creek. PG&E’s Line ..
Corrosion Management of Pipelines, Onshore Facilities More Important than Ever
Some pipelines and onshore facilities deteriorate slowly during operation and in certain cases have been reliable for more than their estimated lifetime. Other installations, however, exhaust their useful life after only two to five years of operation. There are numerous factors that affect the lif..
Buried Pipe Failures Dependent on Soil Stiffness, Too
This is an excerpt of the article. The full article can be found here. Performance limits and potential failures must be identified for buried pipe design. Chief among those are excessive deformations of the pipe, wall buckling and collapse. Maximum allowable pipe deflection is usually not deter..
New Integrity Solutions Facing Many Same Old Problems
The protection of oil, gas and refined product pipelines against natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, not to mention human actions including construction excavations, illegal tapping and terrorist sabotage, is an ongoing concern for operators around the world. However, in th..
Treatment, Prevention of Microbially Induced Corrosion
Sometimes, the biggest problems are the ones you can’t see. Microbially Induced Corrosion (MIC) is an enormous – and expensive -problem for the oil and gas industry, directly or indirectly costing billions of dollars each year in treatment, prevention and equipment repair. Emerging technologies may..
Ergo Tamp: A New Beat in the Street (Work) Scene
At Gas Technology Institute (GTI) in the Chicago northwest suburb of Des Plaines, IL, the ubiquitous task of cutting into street pavement to make various pipeline and utility repairs and then restoring the roadway is a complex effort that has spawned much attention and research over the years. Effor..
Hydraulic-Assisted Seat Designed for Superior Sealing Capability
Operators invest heavily in energy-delivering systems such as pipelines in order to ensure that demands of the global energy industry are met in a safe and reliable way. A pipeline has integrity when it reduces the chance of failure during operation and maintenance, and minimizes the consequential r..
Gas Turbine for Oil Field and Mobile Power Gen Applications
Vericor Power Systems of Alpharetta, GA has developed a new version of the TF Series gas turbine, specifically aimed at the oil and gas market for pump, compression and portable power generation applications. The announcement was made at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. Rated at over ..
- Kinder Morgan Proposes 290-Mile Gas Pipeline Expansion Spanning Three States
- Valero Plans to Shut California Refinery, Takes $1.1 Billion Hit
- Three Killed, Two Injured in Accident at LNG Construction Site in Texas
- Tallgrass to Build New Permian-to-Rockies Pipeline, Targets 2028 Startup with 2.4 Bcf Capacity
- TC Energy Approves $900 Million Northwoods Pipeline Expansion for U.S. Midwest
- U.S. Pipeline Expansion to Add 99 Bcf/d, Mostly for LNG Export, Report Finds
- Enbridge Adds Turboexpanders at Pipeline Sites to Power Data Centers in Canada, Pennsylvania
- Great Basin Gas Expansion Draws Strong Shipper Demand in Northern Nevada
- Cheniere Seeks FERC Approval to Expand Sabine Pass LNG Facility
- Heath Consultants Exits Locate Business to Expand Methane Leak Detection Portfolio
