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In This Issue

  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.

Updated OQ Enforcement Guidance

On June 24, 2014 PHMSA published updated guidance to assist PHMSA pipeline safety investigators and other enforcement personnel in undertaking their compliance inspection and enforcement activities. Some of the changes include:

  • Added API 1161 and ASME B31Q as other Reference Material and Sources to all sections
  • Changes were made to the “Examples of Probable Violation” deleting some and adding others throughout the document.
  • Additional guidance, definitions, and information on record retention was added to sections: 49 CFR 192.801 and 195.501, 49 CFR 192.803 and 195.503, 49 CFR 192.805(b) and 195.505(b), 49 CFR 192.805(c) and 195.505(c), 49 CFR 192.805(e) and 195.505(e), 49 CFR 192.807(a) and 195.507(a), Code Section 49 CFR 192.807(b) and 195.507(b).
  • Added guidance to 49 CFR 192.805(a) and 195.505(a) requiring Operators transporting multiple commodities through its pipeline system, to clearly identify the commodity to which the covered task applies in the Operator’s covered tasks list.

The updated OQ Enforcement Guidance can be downloaded from the PHMSA website under Section III. Staff Manuals and Instructions, or click here.