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...
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/
The two remaining crew members of the dredging vessel Waymon L Boyd have been found dead in the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, the United States. The bodies were found in the afternoon, local time, […]
http://safetyatsea.net/news/2020/missing-waymon-l-boyd-crew-found-dead/
According to an article published in...
https://mfame.guru/nord-stream-2-receives-approval-for-gas-pipeline-link/
According to Gazprom, about 54% of the billion cubic meters, went to the Turkish gas market, while a 46% was delivered to the Turkey-Bulgaria border.
Laying 930 km in the Black Sea, the pipeline has two strings...
https://safety4sea.com/first-billion-cubic-meters-of-gas-delivered-via-turkstream/
Both sides attended the ceremony to celebrate this new beginning between Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Coast Guard.
Specifically, the...
https://safety4sea.com/blue-technology-center-of-expertise-launched/
According to a recent Platts report, the first US LNG shipment is set to arrive in Ukraine.
The LNG cargoA ship carrying the LNG cargo destined for Ukraine arrived earlier this week at the Świnoujście, Poland LNG landing terminal in the Baltic Sea.
http://mfame.guru/first-us-lng-cargo-arrives-in-poland-for-redelivery-via-pipeline/
The European Commission announced that it will provide 215 million to finance part of the construction costs of the Baltic Pipe project designed to carry Norwegian gas to Danish and Polish markets. The signing ceremony took place on Monday, 15 April.
Mainly, the grant agreement was signed in the presence of Maros Šefcovic, Vice-President of the European Commission, Miguel Arias Cañete, Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland and Piotr Naimski,...
https://safety4sea.com/european-commission-funds-e215-million-for-baltic-pipe-project/
The entire pipeline system for Gazprom’s TurkStream project in the Black Sea has been completed following connections between TurkStream offshore section and landfalls. TurkStream is a project for a gas pipeline stretching across the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey and further to Turkey’s border with neighboring countries.
Specifically, the part that connects offshore and nearshore sections of TurkStream was completed, highlighting the finalization of the pipeline system.
The procedure ‘Above...
https://safety4sea.com/gazproms-turkstream-project-is-complete/
The American Petroleum Institute released the third edition of API Recommended Practice 1160 (RP 1160), ‘Managing System Integrity for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines,’ on February 27. RP 1160 provides a process for ensuring safe pipeline operations, including robust assessments of potential risks and establishment of systems to safely and efficiently manage them during day-to-day operations.
The third edition of RP 1160 includes industry experience regarding pipeline mechanics, while it also...
https://safety4sea.com/updated-standard-released-for-pipeline-systems-integrity/