Tag: explosion

New loss estimating risk tool for oil & gas sector

Aon Global Risk Consulting, the risk management consulting arm of Aon, which has locations throughout North and South America, in collaboration with research agency TNO, has launched a new modelling tool for the oil and gas sectors.

Explosion-proof valves from HAWE Hydraulik

HAWE Hydraulik, Munich, offers specially certified valves to meet the particular requirements of explosive environments. In addition to their approval according to the European ATEX directives and the international IECEx formula, these valves now also carry a certificate that complies with the American NEC 500, Class 2, Division 1, standard.

Rockefeller Hearing to look at Pipeline Safety

Federal lawmakers will examine pipeline safety issues again this year, this time in Charleston at a field hearing scheduled in the wake of last month's near-disastrous explosion of a NiSource natural gas transmission line near Sissonville.  The Dec.