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NTSB recommends new measures to end pipeline anchor strikes

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The National Transportation Safety Board is aiming to prevent a repeat of California’s 2021 Orange County oil spill, which was deemed to have been caused by an anchor strike on a pipeline. It is is recommending new notification alarms and procedures for potential incursions on pipelines along with a change to an anchorage off the California coast,

NTSB investigators determined that the oil leak, which began on Oct. 1, 2021, in San Pedro Bay, resulted from an anchor strike on the pipeline that...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/ntsb-recommends-new-measures-to-end-pipeline-anchor-strikes/

Azerbaijan’s BTC Exports Continue, Storing Crude at Quake-Damaged Port

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  • No damage ‘as of now’ to strategic South Caucasus pipeline
  • Ceyhan loadings suspended after ‘small leakage’ at terminal
  • Storage facilities being used during loading suspension

Exports of Azerbaijan’s flagship crude oil via the 1,770 km BTC pipeline are continuing, despite a huge earthquake in southern Turkey early Feb. 6, with the crude being stored in the Turkish port of Ceyhan due to loadings being temporarily suspended following a leak, BP said, reports SP...

https://mfame.guru/azerbaijans-btc-exports-continue-storing-crude-at-quake-damaged-port/

Investor-State Dispute Settlements Over Pipeline Project

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Oil and gas investors are increasingly able to challenge nations over their climate policies because to investor-state dispute settlements, as reported by Grist.

Debate over pipeline project

For over a decade, the debate has raged over the Keystone XL pipeline project, which aimed to transport Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico.

After approving the project’s initial stages, the Obama administration rejected a permit allowing the pipeline to cross the national border...

https://mfame.guru/investor-state-dispute-settlements-over-pipeline-project/

Corps seeks comments on pipeline plan for dredged material

The St. Paul Engineer District is seeking public comments on a draft plan to install a pipeline near Reads Landing, Minn., that would be used to transport dredged material, or river sand, during maintenance of the Mississippi River navigation channel.

Corps of Engineers planners are proposing to install a pipeline from Reads Landing to the Wabasha Gravel Pit, just north of Wabasha, Minn. The pipeline would improve upon an existing route that the Corps has used approximately five times in the...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/inland/corps-seeks-comments-on-pipeline-plan-for-dredged-material/

Pipeline spill investigators board MSC box ship

U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) marine casualty investigators boarded the 14,028 TEU containership MSC Danit on Saturday, in the Port of Long Beach.

Prior to the visit, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Braden Rostad, Chief of Investigations, Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach determined that the MSC Danit was involved in a January 25, 2021, anchor-dragging incident during a heavy weather event that impacted the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The anchor-dragging...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/environment/pipeline-spill-investigators-board-msc-box-ship/

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