A senior-level rundown of how onshore/offshore line pipe joints are welded into a continuous, code-compliant pipeline—what it is, how it’s executed on the right-of-way or lay vessel, and how to ...
Gas export from Norway to Britain gained a new channel on Monday when the last section in the pipeline between the Sleipner field in the North Sea and Easington was welded into place. Next year the ...
Structural issues caused by “bending stress on the pipe” and “a weld flaw” are to blame for the Keystone Pipeline’s oil spill in rural northern Kansas earlier this winter, according to pipeline ...
A leak of nearly 13,000 barrels of crude oil from the Keystone Pipeline near the Kansas-Nebraska border last year was caused by a flawed weld and stress on the pipe from being bent, the operator said.