The Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) and the American Petroleum Institute (API) today released their annual 2021 Pipeline Safety Excellence Performance Report, which found that the safety of liquids pipelines increased across several key indicators.

Thanks to an industry culture of “safety first, safety always” and a commitment to zero incident operations, liquids pipeline incidents impacting people or the environment have declined by 31% over the past five years, even while pipeline mileage and barrels per day have increased nearly 10%.

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Scientists take a look at the importance of continuously monitoring and systematically quantifying the nationwide earthquake risk as it relates to gas pipelines in the United States. The United States currently manages the largest gas pipeline network in the world.

Since most gas pipelines are buried several meters below the ground surface, they are vulnerable to the compounding effects of an earthquake.

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