PHMSA Announces 3-day Pipeline Safety Meeting – 12-13-22

Today, DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a meeting notice in the Federal Register for a pipeline safety informational meeting on December 13^th, 14^th and 15^th, 2022 in Houston, TX. The meeting is open to the public and it will be webcast.

The meeting agenda includes:

• Recent and Potential Safety Advisories (Geohazard/Land Movement, Maritime Issues, Hard Spots, Flow Reversals),

• The Future: Technology and New Regulatory Requirements (Technology Transfer: Innovative Tools That Can Be Used by Industry and PHMSA's New Regulation Implementation Process),

• Failure Investigation Forum (Overview of Recent Accidents/Incidents and Common Enforcement Items Found During Incidents),

• Potential Impact Radius (Discussion of Incident and NTSB Recommendation), and

• The Future: Climate and Energy Transformation (Reducing Methane Emissions, Hydrogen and Hydrogen Blending, Carbon Dioxide/Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage.)

Personnel wishing to attend the meeting need to register by December 7^th. Registration instructions are available here. The meeting information page reports that written comments on the agenda topics may be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket #PHMSA-2022-0161).