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May 9, 2012

Feds: Pipeline companies must keep safety records

  • Operators who can't ensure their oil and gas lines are running at safe pressures by next year face penalties or sanctions.
    • By GARANCE BURKE
    Associated Press

    SAN FRANCISCO — Energy companies will need to keep up-to-date records to prove they are running the nation's aging pipelines at safe pressures under a new set of guidelines the federal government announced Monday in response to a deadly natural gas explosion in a San Francisco suburb.

    If pipeline operators can't ensure their oil and gas lines are running at safe pressures by next year, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration underscored they could face penalties or some other type of sanction.


     
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