State and congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to impose new requirements for automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on pipelines after last week’s San Bruno natural gas conflagration raged ...

“A client of mine [says] he rarely hears people complain [about oil pipelines] while wearing a burlap sack and riding a horse,” pipeline integrity consultant Andrew Kendrick noted while discussing the ...

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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Tuesday it intends to replace hundreds of manually operated valves on natural gas pipelines with automatic shutoffs, devices that the utility concedes would have ...

Often overlooked, manual valves hold critical performance data that boosts reliability and prevents shutdowns. By ...