While buildup in a pipeline can cause transmittal slows or even plugging of the pipeline, cracks or flaws in the line can be disastrous. A form of flow assurance for oil and gas pipelines and ...

A new technology allows multiple pig launching with existing pipeline equipment. Aging pipeline networks and the installation of new lines over greater distances and in more hostile environments have ...

Of all the technologies available to maintain the United States' 2 million miles of pipelines, one of the most critical devices evokes images of a muddy farm animal — the pig. Now erase the image. The ...

The maintenance and integrity of pipeline networks are critical to global energy infrastructure. Pipeline inspection and pigging operations employ specialised devices – commonly known as PIGs ...

Around one-third of the world's gas pipelines can be inspected using 'pipeline pigs'. These cylindrical devices have figured in three James Bond movies, in one case being modified to secretly ...

A new subsea technology that could reduce the development and operational costs of subsea tiebacks in fields prone to wax and hydrates in fluid production was put to the test last week in Norway ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The operator of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System was on the lookout Monday for a piece of a cleaning device -- called a pig -- that mysteriously got dislodged somewhere ...