Smart Pig Blog

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Recently, a contractor representing Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) visited the Crawford County Board of Supervisors in Iowa to provide information about their proposed CO2 pipeline. The session was covered in detail (Read More)