Pipeline defect analysis and assessment remains a critical area of research, given its direct impact on the safety and reliability of energy transportation infrastructures. Mechanical defects such as ...

A few weeks ago British Petroleum, administrator and partial owner of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay oil field, announced that recent tests had revealed corrosion in the pipeline system and shut down production ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Federal officials investigating the Lincoln County gas explosion that killed a woman last year found a dozen pipe defects that the pipeline's operator missed over nine years of ...

A two-step evaluation, using a classical deterministic method and a modern probabilistic one, verified uprating a 35-year-old German natural gas pipeline. Evaluation in the deterministic redesign ...