While buildup in a pipeline can cause transmittal slows or even plugging of the pipeline, cracks or flaws in the line can be disastrous. A form of flow assurance for oil and gas pipelines and ...

The maintenance and integrity of pipeline networks are critical to global energy infrastructure. Pipeline inspection and pigging operations employ specialised devices – commonly known as PIGs ...

Workers with the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati found and safely rescued Snowball the runaway guinea pig Snowball the guinea pig hit a roadblock while out on an adventure last month ...

This story profiles one of the Offshore Technology Conference's Spotlight on New Technology Award winners. A subsea pipeline that's "piggable" is considered a positive. That means a pig, a tool sent ...

Engineers who were repairing a burst water pipe in London on Wednesday encountered a "large pig" believed to be named Pickle. The pipe, located in the neighborhood of Surbiton, had caused a number of ...

A Canadian mayor on Tuesday apologized to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for saying he wanted to duct tape him to the front of a pipeline and sodomize him with a “pig” for his handling of the oil and ...

Crews with the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District made an unusual rescue on Monday after a guinea pig escaped from his home and got stuck in a sewer pipe.Workers said the guinea pig, Snowball, ...

The operator of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is on the look-out for a piece of a cleaning device - called a pig - that was dislodged somewhere inside the 1287-kilometre oil pipeline in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The operator of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System was on the lookout Monday for a piece of a cleaning device -- called a pig -- that mysteriously got dislodged somewhere ...

There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. But then there are the jobs no ...

Listening to Louisiana's political establishment forming its solid, vocal consensus against a national policy to control greenhouse gases reminded me of an old story. It's the one about the Cajun who ...