Category: Oil & Gas
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ROW Project Challenges
First Things First: What is ROW? Right-of-Way, or ROW, is the legal right of one to cross the property of another. It is usually granted in the form of a permanent lineal strip of land. Common ROW projects include highways, railways, electrical transmission lines, and oil and gas pipelines. When an entity requires land to…
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Using UAS for Pipeline Projects
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), or drones, can carry scanners that perform safe, cost-efficient, and fast LiDAR data collection. UAS LiDAR systems are particularly useful for scanning pipeline projects because of its unique features: small, unmanned, and maneuverable. This is especially true when comparing it to using aerial LiDAR performed by using a manned aircraft. First…
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Maintaining Pipe Casing Integrity
Because gas or oil pipelines tend to be buried in soil or immersed in water, they are prone to corrosion. As such, statutes 192.467 and 195.575 from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) state, “Buried or submerged pipelines must be electrically isolated from other underground metallic structures, unless the pipeline and the other structures…