State and congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to impose new requirements for automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on pipelines after last week’s San Bruno natural gas conflagration raged ...

Federal investigators and state legislators are zeroing in on whether inferior shut-off valves on the natural gas pipeline that exploded last week in San Bruno led to a deadlier, costlier disaster.

San Bruno Assemblyman Jerry Hill says PG&E should have installed an automatic shutoff valve for such a large pipeline in such a populated area. "If an appropriate valve had been in place the gas could ...

Each new valve manifold box features a new GSM series controller. Four line semi automatic VMBs include the new GSM-VS4 controller, which replaces the now obsolete GSM 1x4 controller. The GSM-VS4 ...

WASHINGTON — Gas feeding the flames devouring a San Bruno neighborhood could have been shut off at least an hour earlier, but PG&E had decided in 2006 that adding automatic or remotely controlled shut ...

“A client of mine [says] he rarely hears people complain [about oil pipelines] while wearing a burlap sack and riding a horse,” pipeline integrity consultant Andrew Kendrick noted while discussing the ...

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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) - After a gas-fueled fire scored a Lake Highlands home, it took more than two hours for Atmos workers to get the gas shut off. In an emergency, the longer the gas flows, the ...

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has proposed a regulation to require automatic shutoff valves or similar technology on new and rebuilt pipelines that carry natural gas and hazardous liquids. Under ...

The committee will study current and potential methodologies and standards, including regulatory criteria, for deciding when an automatic shutoff valve, remote controlled valve or other equivalent ...