Welcoming New Members to PRCI We are pleased to welcome SGS Canada who joined PRCI in August 2014 as a Technical Program Associate Member in the Operations & Integrity Technical Committee. SGS is an inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We would like to welcome ... AuthorPRCI Read More
Update from the PRCI Technology Development Center It is amazing to think that only nine months ago the Board approved the development of the new PRCI Technology Development Center (TDC) in Houston. This will be building upon our Pipe Repository in Houston that is currently housing over 600 pipe samples and two test loops. The current site has ... AuthorPRCI Read More
PRCI Promotes the Value of Pipeline Research & Technology Development at the IPC PRCI recently played a leading role at the 10th biennial International Pipeline Conference (IPC 2014), which was held in Calgary last month. PRCI members and staff joined over 1,600 pipeline industry professionals who gathered for five days of technical presentations, panels, ... AuthorPRCI Read More
PRCI Receives Approval by FAA to Conduct UAS Beyond Line of Sight Research As part of on-going work within the Right-of-Way Automated Monitoring (RAM) Program, PRCI in cooperation with American Aerospace Advisors Incorporated (AAAI) requested and was approved for a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Certificate of Authority (COA) in order to conduct research for ... AuthorPRCI Read More
Member Company PG&E Using Tools & Technologies Developed as a Result of PRCI Research Pacific Gas & Electric Company, a pipeline member of PRCI, has recently made appearances in the media using and testing tools and technology that were developed as a result of collaborative research efforts at PRCI. PG&E Using New Tool (3D Toolbox) to ... AuthorPRCI Read More
Facilities Technical Committees Updates Compressor and Pump Station Technical Committee The Compressor and Pump Station Technical Committee continues with its execution of 2014 projects with all but one project under contract. Execution has begun on the 2015 projects. The next Technical Committee Meeting is ... Read More
Design, Materials & Construction Technical Committee Updates The Design Materials & Construction Technical Committee met in October 2014 to review in detail all ongoing research in the context of the roadmaps guiding research in each of the seven research Emphasis Areas (listed below) that are under the oversight of the Technical Committee: Assessment ... Read More
AERMOD The Compressor and Pump Station Technical Committee has a project underway to enhance ambient emission modeling for nitrous dioxide. Recent changes requirements by the FERC and local air enforcement agencies have made permitting new or modified facilities more difficult. This project is ... Read More
Lab Testing to Determine Stress Effects on Underground Storage Casing Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) Measurement (US-3B) The effect of stress on MFL signals has been investigated for pipeline applications, specifically for cases of uniaxial tension and compression, biaxial loading, and dents. The MFL response to stress is often complex and a function of residual and applied stresses, magnetizing field strength and ... Read More
Determine the Corrosion Risk of Fluctuations in AC Interference on Pipelines Buried Along High Voltage AC Transmission Corridors (EC-6-4) Field observations have shown that underground transmission pipelines that share the right-of-way corridor with electric transmission lines are susceptible to AC corrosion. In the field, levels of AC interference depend on numerous conditions that are continuously changing. These conditions ... Read More
Fast, Accurate, Automated System to Find and Quantify Natural Gas Leaks - Phase 1 Handheld Methane Detector (ROW-3H) On October 1, 2014, in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, PG&E tested a prototype of a handheld gas leak detection tool in a field demonstration which uses technology adapted from NASA’s Mars Land Rovers at PG&E’s Livermore Training Center in Livermore, ... Read More