A new federal rule to expand background checks to private firearm sales announced Thursday could slow the flood of illegal guns into New York on the “Iron Pipeline” from states with weaker gun laws, ...

In what looks to be a possible sequel to the Keystone XL Pipeline dispute, another fight has begun over a proposed US oil route. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has sued the federal government, saying ...

With the international transportation networks of oil and gas pipelines aging, automated ball indentation (ABI) testing provides a means of monitoring their structural integrity, particularly ...

Ecuador's state-owned oil company Petroecuador said on Wednesday it would halt its SOTE crude pipeline on June 10 to connect the pipeline with a recently completed bypass, but that it would restart ...

For this purpose, a signal-to-noise ratio can be used between pipeline background noise and leak signal (pressure or flow). To achieve 95% of confidence level in leak detection, we should have 6 dB of ...