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Pipeline rupture report raises questions about TransCanada inspections
2014-02-04 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline. On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta exploded, sending 50-metre-tall flames into the air and razing a two-hectare wooded area. Members of Dene Tha First Nations community of Chateh, about 50 kilometres away from the site of the blast, also want to know why the report was not released...
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Rupture Disc Detection System carries full Ex d approval.
2014-01-27 14:31:29| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Designed for fail-safe operation, Flo-Tel™ XD burst detection system has no moving parts and is one-time-only installation unit. Full Ex d approval negates need for intrinsically safe barriers and interfacing directly with RTU, reducing installation efforts. Intended for such key applications as LNG, system allows any periodic maintenance checks specified by customers to be carried out by non-electrically qualified fitter using Test-Tel™ installation tool. This story is related to the following:Burst Discs |
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Rupture Pin Technology-Custom and Standard Pressure Relief Valves
2013-10-25 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Rupture Pin Technology has more than 25 years of experience in manufacturing advanced custom and standard pressure relief valves.The unique technology utilized for Rupture Pin valves is unlike conven...
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TransCanada resumes gas deliveries following Alberta pipeline rupture
2013-10-18 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Canadian energy firm TransCanada has restarted the delivery of gas to most of its industrial customers following an earlier pipeline rupture in northern Alberta.
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Dilbit in Exxon's Pegasus May Have Contributed Pipeline's Rupture
2013-09-09 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In the five months since ExxonMobil's Pegasus oil pipeline burst in Arkansas, two things have become clear. Flawed, 1940s-era welding techniques used when the Pegasus was built set the stage for the rupture, and an internal pipeline inspection failed to spot the problem just weeks before the spill. The most critical question of all, however, has yet to be answered: What caused the pipe's long-dormant flawsassumed to be J-shaped 'hook cracks,' in this caseto awaken and grow undetected until catastrophe...
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