Regulations & standards

The National Energy Board has released new details for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project hearings, issuing a procedural direction for an oral summary argument.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission prepared an environmental assessment for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company’s Connecticut Expansion pipeline project.

The two new giant compressors that started up on the Troll A platform this month will help increase gas recovery by 83 billion cubic metres. The occasion attracted a platform visit from EEA and EU affairs minister Vidar Helgesen.

Oil spill management market to reach US$114.4 billion by 2020 due to rising pipeline and seaborne transportation of chemicals and crude oil.

Obama has yet to make a decision on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline expansion project, though it has been reported a veto is on the horizon. However, this could be a good thing; newly elected Canadian PM Justin Trudeau intends to repair the damaged US-Canadian relationship and this rejection could be a way of doing it.

IMCA and ICES have been working closely to promote how important hydrographic and civil engineering surveying is within the marine and offshore environment.

API statement regarding Obama administration decision to cancel 2016 and 2017 Arctic oil lease sales.

A review of the ‘Global oil and gas pipeline leak detection market forecast and opportunities, 2020’ report by Report Linker.

The California Fire Marshall is to review oil pipeline conditions every year, not every five years.

InterMoor UK Operations achieves eight years without a lost-time incident.

In response to growing market demand DNV GL has launched a new service specification for functional safety certification.

Certificate of need for Sandpiper pipeline now relies on new environmental impact statement.

Agency finds violations but imposes no fines on Plains All American Pipeline.

Though the low oil price is less challenging for pipelines than it is the upstream industry, there are still numerous concerns that need attention – experts from 41 American states and 14 countries are gathering to discuss survival strategies and solutions for pipelines’ midstream industry.

Alberta allows Nexen to reopen Long Lake pipelines after shutdown due to major oil spill.