“Montana Oil Spill Investigation Focused on River Crossing” (NGI’s Shale Daily)
January 26, 2015
“Over the weekend, investigative work on the Poplar Pipeline crossing under the Yellowstone River in northeast Montana, where a leak occurred a week earlier, uncovered exposure of the 60-year-old pipeline…
“Exxon Fined $1 Million for 2011 Montana Oil Spill” (The Spokesman-Review)
January 24, 2015
“Federal officials have issued a $1 million penalty against Exxon Mobil Corp. for safety violations stemming from a pipeline rupture in 2011 that spilled 63,000 gallons of crude into Montana’s…
“Crossing Invisible Rivers: Seasonal Floods And The Risk Of Pipeline Exposure” (Pipeline & Gas Journal)
January 1, 2014
“The hydrological regime in the Brazilian northeast is variable. There have been in the past many cases of pipeline exposure due to huge seasonal water flow in places where, during…
“PHMSA Reports to Congress on Hazardous Liquid Incidents at Water Crossings” (PipelineLaw)
January 3, 2013
“PHMSA released its report to Congress regarding liquid pipeline incidents at certain inland water crossings, finding that 16 of 20 release incidents occurring since 1991 in pipeline water crossings greater…
“Floods Put Pipelines at Risk” (The Wall Street Journal)
December 3, 2012
“A year after floodwaters eroded sections of the Missouri River basin, exposing two petroleum pipelines and triggering their rupture, federal records suggest the same thing could happen to dozens of…