Regulations & standards

Pengrowth Energy Corporation has been fined after a 48 day oil spill in Alberta.

Intervenors in the Trans Mountain expansion project will begin presenting oral summary arguments in Burnaby next week.

The decision is seen as a major victory for First Nations that could have an impact on future oil pipeline projects.

Many people have been calling for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to postpone Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline hearing, stating that he has not kept his promises regarding pipeline regulatory processes. Soon, the National Energy Board will hold hearings on the project, and by May 2016, the decision on whether to approve it or not should be made.

Lloyd’s Register Energy has assessed Pacific Gas and Electric Company under API RP 1173 and found no major non-conformances for its network of pipelines serving a 70 000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.

TransCanada expects to record an estimated CAN$2.5 - $2.9 billion write-down as result of the US Administration’s denial of a Presidential permit.

Trelleborg’s bend restrictors receive API 17L1 certificate of manufacture approval.

FERC staff issues a final environmental impact statement on the Southeast Market Pipelines Project.

Columbia Gas Transmission LLC will extend its long term pipeline modernisation programme.

Patriot Environmental Services is the first contractor in California to be approved as an Inland Oil Spill Response Organisation.

With eight countries now EDGE certified, Technip remains the first and only company in the energy industry to achieve this certification for gender equality in the workplace.

A decision on Enbridge’s Sandpiper Pipeline project will be decided on 17 December, after the PUCs approval was overturned in September due to a lacking Environmental Impact Statement.

API has announced that Lisa Salley will act as the Global Industry Services’ Vice President, responsible for standards, training and safety programmes for oil and gas operations to name a few.

Programme is designed to expand the number of trained HDD operators.

Senator Bernie Sanders has stated that he opposes the proposed natural gas Northeast Energy Direct pipeline project, operated by Kinder Morgan’s subsidiary, the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company.