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Smart Pig Blog

Remembering the Mayflower Oil Spill, 10 Years Later

March 29, 2023
Ten years ago today, the Pegasus Pipeline, then operated by Exxon-Mobil, dumped over 100,000 gallons of crude oil into a suburban community in Mayflower, Arkansas. The spill forced the evacuation of 22 homes, killed hund (Read More)

State of Safety: North Carolina

March 14, 2023
PST’s Data and GIS Analyst James Eager walks us through one state’s pipeline safety track record each month. Click on the “State of Safety” tag at the bottom of the post to see all of James’s entries to da (Read More)

Farewell, Rebecca!

January 30, 2023
Things look a little bit different at the Pipeline Safety Trust (PST) this week. Today marks the first time in 12 years that Rebecca Craven has not spent her workday scrutinizing pipeline regulations, scanning legal do (Read More)

Introducing Pipeline Safety Trust's "Monthly Incident Dashboard"

January 24, 2023
In 2018, the Pipeline Safety Trust released a project called the “Perp Walk of the Month.” Presented as a spreadsheet, the Perp Walk highlighted the worst monthly incidents in the three commonly-reported pipelin (Read More)

Can We Safely Move Hydrogen through Gas Pipelines?

January 19, 2023
Hydrogen, promoted by many in both government and industry as a game-changing fuel source to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, is taking center stage in 2023. A once nascent hydrogen industry is beginning to emerge foll (Read More)

2022 State Pipeline Safety Website Transparency Reviews

November 10, 2022
Over the past ten years, the Pipeline Safety Trust has conducted an annual review of each state’s pipeline safety website to determine the amount of publicly available information and how accessible it is to members of (Read More)

State of Safety: Tennessee

November 7, 2022
PST’s Data and GIS Analyst James Eager walks us through one state’s pipeline safety track record each month. Click on the “State of Safety” tag at the bottom of the post to see all of James’s entries to da (Read More)

Meet Policy Counsel Erin Sutherland

November 2, 2022
Back when Erin Sutherland was a legal intern, one of the first issues she was assigned was the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill. The spill dumped 142,800 gallons of crude oil (3,400 barrels) onto the Gaviota Coast, one of the most (Read More)

API-LEPA Performance Excellence Team Tours Site of 1999 Bellingham Pipeline Tragedy

October 28, 2022
This week, the Pipeline Safety Trust welcomed the API-LEPA Performance Excellence Team (PET) to Bellingham, WA. The PET is an industry effort to develop strategic initiatives to improve pipeline safety on hazardous liqui (Read More)

API Releases Report on the Potential Role of Blue Hydrogen in the US Energy Market

October 26, 2022
The American Petroleum Institute (API) recently released a report on the potential role Blue Hydrogen could play in a future low-carbon economy. Blue Hydrogen is the process of producing hydrogen from natural g (Read More)

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