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News & Notes
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AOPL/API Testifies at Hearing on Gasoline Specifications
Bill Shea of Buckeye Partners LP testified May 11, the second of two days of hearings before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on gasoline prices, supply and specifications. No consensus emerged about the cause of escalating gasoline prices or about whether to reduce or expand ethanol subsidies or the number of boutique fuels.
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PHMSA Issues Notice on Low Stress, Controller Meetings
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration announced a series of events for the week of June 26. In addition to meetings of the Department of Transportation pipeline safety technical advisory committees, PHMSA will hold workshops on regulation of low-stress pipelines and on control room issues.
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April 2006 Issue
Increased Ethanol Use Creates Challenges
March 2006 Issue
AOPL Supports Public Access to Pipeline Mapping Data
February 2006 Issue
Utilizing a Smarter ‘Pig’
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Research and Development Fuels Safer Pipelines
 Under the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002, The Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation (DOT), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were instructed to ensure the safety of pipeline systems by forming a partnership to carry out research and development. As part of this partnership, DOE, DOT and NIST entered into a five-year agreement to coordinate their R&D efforts.
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Operator Qualification Ensures Pipeline Safety
 Pipeline right-of-ways, airborne surveillance, “smart pigs,” and fracture models are only part of the ways that the nation’s oil pipeline operators guarantee the reliability of our pipeline system. Ensuring the safety of the pipeline infrastructure requires a qualified workforce.
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Pipeline Industry Prepares For Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Transition
 A major transition will take place this summer that will bring significant volumes of a new formula for diesel fuel into the marketplace. Under rules adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency, the new diesel fuel called Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) will contain a maximum of 15 parts-per-million (PPM) of sulfur and will replace most of the low sulfur diesel fuel now in use, which contains up to 500 PPM of sulfur.
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PIPELINE COMMUNITY:
Prevention and Response Top Priority for Alyeska Pipeline
 Each day oil tankers are escorted by two tugs through an 80-mile --long shipping lane through the port of Valdez and the Gulf of Alaska. These tugs are a part of the Ship Escort Response Vessel System (SERVS), one of the largest assemblies of prevention and response equipment in the world, operated by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.
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Community Assistance and Technical Services is an innovative program within the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration designed to meet the growing demand for enhanced stakeholder communications, and to help facilitate permitting processes related to pipeline safety.
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