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Silent Energy Revolution

February 7, 2010 News No Comments
Silent Energy Revolution

SOURCE: The American

How ironic that during the ‘drill, baby, drill’ demonstrations as gasoline prices spiked in 2007 and 2008, a silent revolution with natural gas was already underway that will make those concerns largely irrelevant. … Continue Reading

PHMSA issues final rule on Control Room Management (CRM)

December 4, 2009 News No Comments
PHMSA issues final rule on Control Room Management (CRM)

PHMSA has issued the final rule on Control Room Management. The rule requires control room management procedures to be developed by August 1, 2011 and implemented by February 1, 2012. The final rule can be found here.

PHMSA releases the final DIMP rule

December 4, 2009 News No Comments
PHMSA releases the final DIMP rule

December 4, 2009

Today, PHMSA released the final Distribution Integrity Management Rule (DIMP). The rule can be found here. The effective date of the regulation is February 2, 2010. There is a comment period on the rule and comments are invited on the provisions for reporting failures of compression couplings. The comment period ends January 3, 2010. At the end of the comment period, PHMSA will publish a document modifying the provisions of DIMP or a document stating that these provisions will remain unchanged. The Texas Gas Association has compiled an executive summary of the rule which can be found here and will be having regional meetings to introduce and discuss the rule and the requirements of the rule beginning in January of 2010.

600 HP Natural Gas Car

October 27, 2009 News No Comments
600 HP Natural Gas Car

Many of the advancements made through racing and hot rodding have been passed down to the passenger car segment. Nothing quite stimulates innovation like pushing a vehicle to its limits. AFVTech, an alternative-fuels conversion company, is building a compressed natural gas (CNG) hot rod based on the classic ‘33 Ford coupe. … Continue Reading

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