European field monitoring programs and subsequent laboratory investigations have shown that excessive cathodic protection (CP), combined with induced AC, enhances the risk of corrosion. Increasing the ...

Near the six-inch cavity in the now-infamous Plains All American pipeline near Refugio State Beach, the wall thickness of the pipe measured a gossamer 0.0625 inches, according to a document released ...

Plains All American Pipeline's Line 901, which ruptured in 2015, causing the Refugio Oil Spill. Exxon, which now owns the pipeline, is seek to install valves on the line. Credit: Giana Magnoli / ...

Corrosion control is a lifecycle discipline that spans design, construction, operation, and surveillance of flowlines, gathering lines, trunklines, and export pipelines transporting oil, gas, and ...

Researchers derived five corrosion rate distributions from different pit growth models and used them to perform reliability analyses of underground pipelines from synthetic and real-life data.

The probable causes of the natural gas pipeline rupture Dec. 11, 2012, were external corrosion of the pipe wall and failure to detect that corrosion because the pipeline was not inspected or tested ...

Corrosion had eaten away nearly half of the metal wall of a pipeline that ruptured and spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude oil along the Santa Barbara coast last month, federal regulators said ...

Chevron says inspections at its Richmond refinery failed to detect corrosion on a pipeline that leaked hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel into the bay last February, a disclosure that one local ...

A minor oil spill in San Pablo Bay at the Phillips 66 oil refinery this week was most likely caused by a corroded pipeline, a revelation prompting a new set of concerns as the energy company pushes to ...

The Transportation Safety Board says external corrosion led to a natural gas pipeline rupture that caused an explosion near a small northwestern Alberta community. In a statement on the results of its ...