Sentences with phrase «of pipeline incidents»

Although excavation and pipeline damage is the foremost cause of pipeline incidents, it is also the most preventable.

Not exact matches

«This incident has really contributed to changing the strategic environment in which these key pipeline infrastructure decisions are going to be made,» says Mark McClelland, head of North American research for risk - analysis firm Maplecroft.

Other worries for residents are the impact of pipeline construction on the environment (75 %), the possibility of infringing upon the rights of communities living along the pipeline path (67 %), the project's impact on First Nations communities (also 67 %), a lack of trust in Enbridge (65 %) and Enbridge's history of incidents (60 %).

Fleming said the report highlights an incident in Michigan last year where another Enbridge tar sands pipeline ruptured, dumping three million litres of crude into the Kalamazoo River.

The incident described as a reprisal attack, occurred barely 24 hours after the Joint Task Force, comprising the Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Army and the National Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC, had launched series of attacks at the pipeline vandalism syndicate in the area, which led to series of arrest and startling discoveries.

In the early hours of 14 February, 2018; our soldiers deployed at Ologbo for pipelines protection received a tip off from locals of a robbery incident.

According to the Director, Petroleum Resources at the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mordecai Ladan, said the NAOC is responsible for the Azuzuama, Bayelsa State pipeline fire incident that claimed the lives of about 14 people including officials from NOSDRA, Bayelsa Ministry of Environment, NAOC and the contractor to NAOC on 9th July 2015.

The Cuomo administration is too reliant on gas - line operators to self - report mishaps or incidents, and as a result, the state DPS was not properly notified of six gas - related pipeline incidents in 2015 alone, the audit found.

Incidents like the September 2010, San Bruno, California explosion are lessons to developers and local governments to work together to ensure homes and businesses are not built too close to, and in many cases on top of existing pipelines.

However, a series of recent incidents have highlighted the need to address the nation's aging pipeline infrastructure.

Several other cities have also recently experienced pipeline incidents, including the environmentally devastating rupture in Marshall, MI, and the deadly San Bruno, CA, explosion which highlighted the need for pipeline operators to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of their highest risk lines.

The instances of noncompliance include failing to report all significant facts when reporting the incident to the National Response Center and performing welding on pipeline components that contain a combustible mixture of gas and air.

4:06 p.m. — ExxonMobil Pipeline representative Larry Hawthorne reports the incident to the National Response Center, a branch of the U.S. Coast Guard that pipeline companies must notify after oil spills.

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

As production of pipelines continues to soar, ignoring all of these incidents and the ongoing risks associated with pipelines to embrace an «out of sight, out of mind» mentality seems unfathomable.

These incidents include over three - hundred unreported spills from 2012 to 2013, several significant leaks of oil and polluted saltwater into streams and farmland in the six months prior to the latest train derailment (see here and here), a decade - old saltwater spill which is still being cleaned up coupled with a pipeline rupture discovered in September 2013 which will take another four years to clean, and a natural - gas pipeline explosion across the border in Canada, which impacted gas availability in several U.S. states during the winter of 2014 (see here and here).

Friends of the Earth says the incident is the 12th spill from the Keystone I pipeline, which is not even a year old.FOE describes more about this weekend's spill:

Friends of the Earth says the incident is the 12th spill from the Keystone I pipeline, which is

A pipeline owned by Paramount Resources Ltd. released an estimated 100,000 liters (approximately 26,000 gallons) of crude oil and 190,000 liters (approximately 50,000 gallons) of produced water near Zama City, in northwest Alberta, according to an April 11 incident report filed with the Alberta Energy Regulator.

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