While buildup in a pipeline can cause transmittal slows or even plugging of the pipeline, cracks or flaws in the line can be disastrous. A form of flow assurance for oil and gas pipelines and ...

Of all the technologies available to maintain the United States' 2 million miles of pipelines, one of the most critical devices evokes images of a muddy farm animal — the pig. Now erase the image. The ...

BP decided to shut down its largest Alaskan oil field after inspections by "smart pigs" — multimillion dollar robots that root through the pipelines — showed damage from corrosion. But the pigs still ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hifi Engineering Inc. (“Hifi”), a developer and supplier of next generation fiber optic sensing technology used to monitor assets including ...

Pipeline inspection firm PII is using Celoxica’s reconfigurable hardware designtools in its ‘intelligent pigs’. The pigs are autonomous inspection tools forpipelines that need processing capability of ...

Statoil has extensive experience in both dual-diameter pigging of subsea pipelines and the environmental ramifications of pipeline commissioning. This second article in a two-part series discusses pig ...

Around one-third of the world's gas pipelines can be inspected using 'pipeline pigs'. These cylindrical devices have figured in three James Bond movies, in one case being modified to secretly ...

Following disclosure that the aging transmission pipeline that exploded in San Bruno could not be inspected with the most advanced technology — robots called “smart pigs” — Pacific Gas & Electric has ...

What are Pipeline Pigging Services? Pipeline pigging is a notion in pipeline preservation that includes the usage of gadgets known as pigs, which clean pipelines and are competent to inspect pipeline ...