OPS Leads Mapping Effort
The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) held a hearing this month on its efforts to develop a system to locate and map pipelines in urban areas.
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Pipeline Employees Fit the Bill
Some say failing to plan is a plan to fail. The pipeline industry heeds the warning. In concert with a leading non-profit educational foundation, the industry has created a standardized employee qualification curriculum.
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Safer by the Minute
These days even the pipeline industry’s harshest critics have noticed how much safer pipelines are today than as recently as three years ago, thanks to efforts by the Office of Pipeline Safety and industry leaders.
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INDUSTRY LEADERS: Partnering to Protect Pipeline Assets
Marathon Ashland Pipe Line LLC (MAPL) found that bank erosion had exposed pipeline that spanned into the North Fork Licking River, just outside Newark, Ohio. MAPL quickly joined forces with the city to protect both valuable underground assets and tame the restless river.
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PIPELINE COMMUNITY: Koch Pipeline: Safety in Numbers
Storing and transferring millions of barrels filled with crude oil each month is no easy task – especially when there are only six people doing the job. In honor of the hard and safe work of Koch Pipeline Company L.P., the company’s Cushing, Okla., terminal was awarded the 2004 Small Employer Award of Excellence.
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Pipelines fuel 97 percent of the transportation industry, which accounts for more than 16 percent of the nation’s economic output and 10 percent of its workforce.
Some say failing to plan is a plan to fail. The pipeline industry heeds the warning. In concert with a leading non-profit educational foundation, the industry has created a standardized employee qualification curriculum.
These days even the pipeline industry’s harshest critics have noticed how much safer pipelines are today than as recently as three years ago, thanks to efforts by the Office of Pipeline Safety and industry leaders.
Marathon Ashland Pipe Line LLC (MAPL) found that bank erosion had exposed pipeline that spanned into the North Fork Licking River, just outside Newark, Ohio. MAPL quickly joined forces with the city to protect both valuable underground assets and tame the restless river.