San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has opened the Gas Safety Academy, in Winters, CA, as its primary training center for employees learning to operate and maintain all aspects of the combination utility’s natural gas delivery system. Included in the center — the third gas safety facility opened by PG&E in the past four years — are heavy equipment simulators, virtual learning resources, a model neighborhood for emergency response, leak detection practices, and educational safety protocol programs. PG&E officials said that the new center represents five years of research, benchmarking, design and construction. The center is designed to handle 150 employees weekly and provide nearly 36,000 hours of training annually.
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California Utilities Acquire NatGas Mobile Home Park Pipes
As an outgrowth of state safety laws passed after the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion, Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has completed the first conversion of a mobile home park gas system to utility ownership and operation.
November 17, 2015
No Injuries Reported in FGT Louisiana Explosion
An explosion early Tuesday morning on the Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) pipeline in Washington Parish, LA, 80 miles north of New Orleans destroyed a mobile home and caused the evacuation of 55 area residents. Gas supplies moving on the west-to-east pipeline were rerouted, operator Energy Transfer Partners said. No injuries were reported
June 19, 2013
Industry Brief
Houston-based Oil and Gas Solutions LLC (OGS) has been awarded an engineering contract by Austin, TX-based Omni Water Solutions Inc. to design Omni’s new HIPPO mobile water treatment system, which would be used to treat and recycle high volumes of water used in hydraulic fracturing. OGS said the system would be a modularized unit that would fit onto a conventional low-boy trailer for easy transport.
October 25, 2012
‘Total Solution’ for Water Resource Management Under Development
Energy technology developer Freestone Resources Inc. is teaming up with MEA Solutions LLC, a Houston-based oilfield services operator, to provide a “total solution” for water resource management that would include recycling flowback water from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations in the onshore.
October 12, 2011
FPL May Rekindle 300-Mile Florida Gas Pipeline
Florida Power & Light (FPL) said it may resurrect a $1.5 billion, 300-mile natural gas transmission pipeline project that state regulators rejected two years ago in a new version. However, a spokesperson told NGI the pipe project, which regulators previously rejected as uneconomic, is far from a sure thing.
September 15, 2011
Search Continues for Rig’s Missing Crew
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Thursday was continuing the search for 11 missing crew members from the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, which experienced an explosion and fire Tuesday night in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
April 23, 2010
Search Continues for Rig’s Missing Crew
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Thursday was continuing the search for 11 missing crew members from the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, which experienced an explosion and fire Tuesday night in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
April 23, 2010
Eleven Still Missing Following GOM Rig Explosion
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Wednesday afternoon was responding to an explosion and fire aboard a mobile offshore drilling unit 42 miles southeast of Venice, LA, in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The explosion occurred about 10 p.m. Tuesday aboard Transocean Ltd.’s semisubmersible Deepwater Horizon.
April 22, 2010
Eleven Still Missing Following GOM Rig Explosion
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Wednesday afternoon was responding to an explosion and fire aboard a mobile offshore drilling unit 42 miles southeast of Venice, LA, in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The explosion occurred about 10 p.m. Tuesday aboard Transocean Ltd.’s semisubmersible Deepwater Horizon.
April 22, 2010
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