Recent Articles
Posted By: FOSA Staff
Wed Oct 14th, 2020
OptaSense involved in the Virtual Pipeline Summit, latest in fiber optic leak detection technology
Posted By: FOSA Staff
Wed Oct 14th, 2020
Fiber optic Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) are useful and proven tools for third party interference detection. DAS...uses standard telecommunications fiber optic cable that is buried parallel to the pipeline as an array of acoustic sensors...[Aselsan] proposes
Posted By: FOSA Staff
Thu Sep 17th, 2020
PHMSA awarded the University of California, Berkeley with US$250 000 from its Competitive Academic Agreement Program. FOSA member Dr. Soga is the Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering and a Chancellor’s Professor at UC Berkeley.
Posted By: FOSA Staff
Thu Jul 23rd, 2020
FOSA had previously called for government and the pipeline industry to work together to establish a pipeline safety test facility. Based on operator input, FOSA issued a concept paper suggesting a buried ‘flow-loop’ pipeline to emulate leak
Posted By: FOSA Staff
Wed Oct 2nd, 2019
“PHMSA deserves praise for taking significant steps toward enhancing the safety of pipelines, including extending leak detection requirements," said FOSA Chairman JJ Williams.
