For decades PG&E racked up a pile of internal reports about weld failures and other problems on a natural gas line right next to the San Bruno pipe that ruptured along a shoddy weld in a catastrophic ...

An investigation of faulty pipe welds on Virginia-class submarines assembled at Northrop Grumman Newport News has been broadened to include aircraft carriers and another class of submarines. The ...

Federal safety investigators said Tuesday their probe is looking into the welds that held together the pipeline section that exploded in San Bruno on Sept. 9 — welds PG&E’s records indicated did not ...

A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. document that the company just disclosed to state regulators indicates the San Bruno pipeline that exploded in 2010 had a history of weld failure that by law should have ...

Manufacturing defects, blamed for a March 29 pipeline rupture in Mayflower, also accounted for a total of 12 seam failures in the same crude-oil pipeline during a series of pressure tests Exxon Mobil ...

French technology-based tracking solutions company Beweis has developed an RFID-enabled system for verifying that pipes have been properly welded at nuclear power plants and petrochemical facilities, ...

Non-contact, laser profile displacement sensors from Micro-Epsilon are being utilised on a new, groundbreaking internal weld inspection system. The sensor measures the internal size and shape of girth ...