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  1. Updated OQ Enforcement Guidance
  2. Need to Update Your Current Operator Qualification Program?
  3. RP 1172 Construction Parallel to Existing Underground Transmission Pipelines – FINAL
  4. Draft Pipeline Safety Management System Recommended Practice, API 1173, Available for API and ANSI Approval Ballot and Public Comment
  5. Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission – Risk-Based Inspections
  6. Pending Audits?
  7. Texas Proposed Change to Farm Tap Odorization Requirements
  8. State Damage Prevention Activities
  9. RCP’s Web-Based Compliance Management Systems
  10. DIMP Integration
  11. Key Features
  12. RCP in the News / Pipeline & Gas Journal June 2014 edition
  13. RCP Employee Receives ASME Old Guard Early Career Engineer Award
  14. Public Workshop on Managing Pipeline Cracking Challenges
  15. Pipeline Safety: Government/Industry Pipeline R&D Forum
  16. Summer / Fall Conference Schedule
  17. New RCP Pipeline Pressure Testing Workshop August 26 & 27
  18. DOT Pipeline Compliance Workshop – August 5 – 7, 2014
  19. API Damage Prevention Webinar – Save the Date!
  20. Send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of Pipeline Samples, yearning to breathe free.

RP 1172 Construction Parallel to Existing Underground Transmission Pipelines – FINAL

1st Edition, April 2014

The American Petroleum Institute (API) recently published the first edition of recommended practice (RP) 1172 for Construction Parallel to Existing Underground Transmission Pipelines. This new RP is intended as a resource to assist all parties to safely manage construction activities of new or modified facilities parallel to existing underground transmission pipelines. Activity of concern includes construction activity that could impact an existing facility, such as excavation or movement of equipment across the pipeline or within the easement that could affect the safe operation of the existing pipeline.

The primary emphasis of these guidelines is on the interaction between existing transmission pipeline operators and those planning to construct in a parallel fashion. Contractors working on behalf of the constructing party, including environmental and survey professionals, design engineers, construction contractors, and operators of excavation and earth moving equipment, are encouraged to engage in work practices that are in conformance with these guidelines. These guidelines have been developed such that they can be incorporated into contract documents executed with contractors and subcontractors by whichever party is involved in or responsible for construction activities.

This RP is available online at the API Publications Store: Product No. D11721.