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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.

Texas Proposed Change to Farm Tap Odorization Requirements

On June 17, 2014, the Texas Railroad Commission proposed the following changes to 16 TAC §8.215 Odorization of Gas.

(a) – (d) (No change.)
(e) Malodorant concentration tests and reports.
(1) (No change.)
(2) Wick-type farm [Farm] tap odorizers shall be exempt from the odorization equipment reporting [testing] requirements of paragraph (1)(B) [(1)] of this subsection.
(3) (No change.)

The earliest possible date of adoption for this rule change is August 3, 2014. For further information, please call: (512) 475-1295.