PHMSA has issued a preliminary notice and a call for abstracts in connection with a public workshop planned for September 9-10, 2015 on risk modeling methodologies for pipelines and non-pipeline systems.
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PHMSA Announces Public Workshop on Safety Management Systems
The Agency announced a public workshop to discuss the voluntary Pipeline Safety Management Systems (SMS) national consensus standard on April 22, 2015 in Houston, Texas. This standard, Recommended Practice (RP) 1173, has been in development by the American Petroleum Institute (API) for some time now as a result of the NTSB’s Investigation of the Marshall, Michigan incident. …
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Pipeline Crack Detection and R&D Public Workshops Announced
PHMSA and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR) announced a public workshop to be held on August 5, 2014, to discuss challenges associated with detecting and characterizing crack-like defects in oil and gas pipelines (e.g., environmentally assisted cracks and cracks associated with corrosion). …
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