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Long-Term Investment In Corrosion Management Will Generate Greater Rewards

Pipeline corrosion has enormous financial and operational implications for gas suppliers and distributors. As a result, the question of how best to tackle corrosion is beset by both cost and technical issues. Businesses can achieve a great deal by implementing long-term corrosion- management strategies, but many are reluctant to spend money on projects that do not deliver an early return in investment.

Pangea LNG Win Approval For LNG Exports To FTA Nations

The U.S. Department of Energy has granted Pangea LNG (North America) Holdings, LLC, long-term, multi-contract authorization to export LNG to free trade agreement (FTA) nations from its South Texas LNG Project in development on Corpus Christi Bay.

Managing Corrosion Of Pipelines That Transport Crude Oils

Oil and gas pipelines play a critical role in delivering the energy resources needed to power communities around the world. In the United States alone, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), more than 2.5 million miles of pipelines — enough pipeline to circle the earth approximately 100 times — deliver oil and gas to homes and businesses.

PHMSA Pressured to Turn on Pipeline Valves Rulemaking

A Columbia Gas & Transmission Corp. pipeline leak in West Virginia in December has reignited the debate over installation of automatic shutoff valves (ASVs) and remote control valves (RCVs) as a means of quickly limiting the potentially disastrous effects of a pipeline explosion and subsequent fire. The fire in Sissonville destroyed three homes and closed a section of a major highway for 14 hours.

Companies Partner To Connect Appalachian Gas To Major Markets

Williams has partnered with Cabot Oil & Gas and Piedmont Natural Gas, to develop a major transmission pipeline project to connect Appalachian natural gas supplies in northern Pennsylvania with major northeastern markets by 2015.

Product Showcase: EASI-SET Precast Concrete Buildings

Installation in hours, lasts for decades.

ArcLight Capital Partners Forms North Sea Midstream Partners

ArcLight Capital Partners LLC announced formation of North Sea Midstream Partners (NSMP) and the acquisition by NSMP of Teesside Gas Processing Plant Ltd.

Transneft Plans To Open Historic Pipeline

Transneft plans to shortly open the country's first oil pipeline to reach the Pacific coast in a bid to widen Russia's supply to Asian markets.

Product Showcase: Improved Surge Relief Control

The Limeco “EZ” is designed to tightly control the set point of a nitrogen loaded surge relief valve.

AS-Schneider Opens Middle East Office

Following the setup of AS-Schneider Asia-Pacific in Singapore in 2011, the Armaturenfabrik Franz Schneider GmbH + Co. KG opened another company, AS-Schneider Middle East FZE, in Dubai in late 2012.