Prevention

The Interior Department issued a new directive Friday to oil and gas lessees and operators requiring them to submit information that addresses prevention measures for a possible blowout, and then followed up Monday with the swearing in of Michael R. Bromwich who will take over the restructuring of the Minerals Management Service into the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOE).

A handful of prevention and mitigative strategies would limit the exposure of other liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities to the “cascading events” that caused the deadly explosion at the LNG complex in Skikda, Algeria earlier this year, according to a joint report by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

A handful of prevention and mitigative strategies would limit the exposure of other liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities to the “cascading events” that caused the deadly explosion at the LNG complex in Skikda, Algeria earlier this year, according to a joint report by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

As is already required of hazardous liquid pipelines, the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) has enacted revised safety standards that call on natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines to use the same level of protection against atmospheric corrosion on their facilities despite the vintage.