Tag: pipeline

The city of San Francisco, California has filed a lawsuit against a federal pipeline safety agency in the U.S. District Court for allegedly failing to enforce safety standards for natural gas transmission pipelines.

Per its agreement with the state under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, TransCanada Corp. is continuing on schedule to file a public convenience and necessity application with FERC for the Alaska Pipeline Project to transport to Lower 48 markets.

  The launch of the Northern Gateway public hearings was tense, as hundreds of people attended to speak on Enbridge’s controversial proposal to connect the Alberta oil sands to a port in Kitamaat Village, B.C.

In a filing with Canada’s National Energy Board, Suncor Energy Inc., Nexen Inc., Cenovus Energy Inc. and Total SA said that they plan to ship oil on Enbridge Inc.’s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.

Representatives of Magellan Midstream Partners Bruce Heine have confirmed that a pipeline ruptured on December 11th when a landowner's bulldozer struck the pipeline in a cornfield, leaking 252,000-gallons of petroleum.

  TransCanada Corp has stated it supports proposed legislation within the State of Nebraska to reroute the Keystone XL pipeline project to avoid sensitive aquifers.

Team Industrial has introduced an insert valve that can be installed on a pipeline without shutting it down. The valve goes on under pressure, so the system is not shut down during installation.

An official has told The Associated Press that the U.S. State Department is considering a plan that would reroute the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. The current proposed route sends the pipeline through the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies water to eight states.

Enterprise Products Partners (Enterprise) and Enbridge Inc have announced plans to design, construct and operate a new pipeline to transport crude oil to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Subsea 7 has signed a USD 1 billion contract with Petrobras for the development of the pre-salt deepwater Guara and Lula NE areas in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.