Have you registered and confirmed your reservations for these upcoming conferences? RCP will be attending. We hope to see you there! SGA Operating Conference & ExhibitsJuly 25-27, 2016George R. Brown Convention Center – Houston, TX Mark your calendar and plan to attend the 2016 “Mega Rule” Notice of Proposed Rule Overview session on Monday, July…
June 2016
Pipeline Regulations for iPhone
There’s an app for that! In 2009, at our request, Tekk Innovations developed an iPhone application containing the federal pipeline safety regulations (49 CFR 40, and 190-199). It has keyword search and the capability to e-mail excerpts of the regulations to others. There have been several updates since the original app was released and was…
Gas and Liquid Advisory Committee Meetings
[DOCKET NO. PHMSA-2016-0032 PHMSA held public meetings of the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC) and the Liquid Pipeline Advisory Committee (LPAC) on June 1-3, 2016. Topics discussed included GPAC’s consideration and voting on the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) titled: Pipeline Safety: Plastic Pipe Rule (80 FR 29263; May 21, 2015), and in a joint…
Louisiana Dig Law Changes Effective Immediately
[LA HOUSE BILLS 249 & 250] For the past year, the Louisiana Dig Law Advisory Committee has worked on revising the Louisiana Underground Utility and Facility Damage Prevention Law (Dig Law). The purpose of these discussions was to define the intent of the law. On June 2nd at the 2016 Regular Legislative Session House Bill…
PHMSA Gas & Liquid Advisory Committee Member Nominations
[DOCKET NO. PHMSA–2016–0033] PHMSA is requesting nominations for individuals to serve on the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC) and the Liquid Pipeline Advisory Committee (LPAC). The GPAC is composed of 15 members appointed by the Secretary of Transportation after consulting with public and private agencies concerned with the technical aspect of transporting gas or operating…
PHMSA Releases Joint Pipeline Public Awareness SWOT Report
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) posted the joint Pipeline Public Awareness Program Working Group’s (PAPWG) Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Report to the Agency’s Stakeholder Communications website today. The report highlights key findings from SWOT results to foster continuous improvement in pipeline public awareness efforts. The full report can be accessed on the PHMSA…
PHMSA Proposes Changes to Incident and Accident Reports
[DOCKET PHMSA-2015-0205] On May 13, 2016, PHMSA proposed revisions to the incident and accident reports for gas distribution, gas transmission and gathering, LNG facilities, and hazardous liquid pipelines. Numerous changes are proposed for each form, including costs, consequences, causes and sub-causes, contributing factors, incident response actions, detection methods, volumes lost and recovered, how the MAOP…
RCP Underground Storage Services & Gas Storage Facility Procedures
Does your company have underground storage assets? Do you know what is included in the new PHMSA advisory bulletin and RPs 1170 & 1171? RCP has extensive expertise in the underground storage recommended practices for both reservoirs and salt caverns which we would like to put to work for your company. We have developed integrity…
DOE and PHMSA to Host Underground Storage Workshops
JULY 12 – 14, 2016 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will host a Workshop on Well Integrity for Natural Gas Storage in Depleted Reservoirs and Aquifers in Denver, CO on July 12-13. The objective of this workshop is to assemble operators, regulators and technical experts to examine the current state of natural gas storage…
PHMSA Webinar: “Safety of the Nation’s Gas Transmission Pipelines – NPRM”
JUNE 8, 2016 The webinar scheduled for May 12th for the gas mega-rule was cancelled and rescheduled for June 8th at 1:30 p.m. EDT. This public webinar is being hosted by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to discuss the proposed rulemaking for the safety of the nation’s gas…
Pipeline Pressure Testing Workshop: August 16-17, 2016
RCP is now offering a 2-day Pipeline Pressure Testing Workshop at its facilities in downtown Houston. The workshop will begin by outlining the objectives for performing a pressure test and how those relate to DOT requirements. The workshop will then build upon these foundations to answer many specific pressure testing questions including: What are the…
Pressure Testing Webinar – Advantages of Using TestOp®
RCP will be hosting webinar presentations to discuss pipeline pressure testing practices and demonstrate the advantages of utilizing new technology for planning, designing, and capturing real-time data to validate and document whether it was a successful test. The same technology that RCP has used for the past six years to validate our customer’s pressure tests…