Pipeline Safety


Overview

PG&E’s principal objective is the safety of its natural gas pipelines. The public deserves to have confidence in the safety and integrity of gas lines. The company is working with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as it investigates the cause of the San Bruno accident. The company is working with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to validate the operating pressures of its gas transmission lines and to improve its record-keeping. PG&E supports efforts to improve national pipeline safety laws. PG&E is already making pipeline safety changes and is not waiting for mandates from legislators or regulators. PG&E’s Pipeline 2020 program will further strengthen the company’s gas system operations as well as boosting pipeline operations nationwide thanks to research funds and other investments.

May 20, 2013

San Jose & Fresno: Open Houses to Answer Questions about Pipeline Replacements

PG&E will host open houses this week to talk to residents about upcoming pipeline replacement projects in San Jose and Fresno.

May 20, 2013

Vacaville & Martinez: Open Houses to Answer Questions about Hydrostatic Testing

PG&E will host open houses today in Vacaville and Martinez to talk to residents about upcoming hydrostatic pressure testing.

May 17, 2013

SNL Energy: PG&E Uses Training, Technology to Revamp Gas Operations

SNL Energy, an energy-industry news website, wrote about PG&E’s pipeline-safety progress and the construction of its $35 million gas control center in San Ramon. Mel Christopher, PG&E’s senior director of gas system operations, and Jesus Soto Jr., the company’s senior vice president of gas transmission operations, were quoted.

May 13, 2013

Madera & Walnut Creek: Open Houses to Answer Questions about Hydrostatic Testing

PG&E will host open houses this week in Madera and in Walnut Creek to talk to residents about upcoming hydrostatic pressure testing.

May 6, 2013

PG&E ‘Deeply Concerned’ about Proposed San Bruno Fines

PG&E Chairman and CEO Tony Earley said today that “the penalties proposed by the Commission staff and others far exceed anything that I have seen in my 30 years in the industry and fail to appropriately account for the actions taken by the company.”

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April 29, 2013

VIDEO: An Update on PG&E’s Efforts to Create the Safest, Most Reliable Gas System in the Country

PG&E owes it to our communities – the places where our customers and employees call home – to work every day toward becoming the safest, most reliable gas system in the nation. Here’s how this is happening, writes Nick Stavropoulos, PG&E’s executive vice president of Gas Operations.

April 22, 2013

Modesto & Yuba City: Open Houses to Answer Questions about Hydrostatic Testing

PG&E will host open houses this week in Modesto and Yuba City to talk to residents about upcoming hydrostatic pressure testing.

April 8, 2013

San Jose and King City: Open Houses to Answer Questions about Pipeline Replacement, Hydrostatic Testing

PG&E will host open houses this week to talk to residents about an upcoming pipeline replacement project in San Jose and hydrostatic pressure testing in King City.

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March 26, 2013

PG&E Has Now Completed Seven of Safety Board’s San Bruno Recommendations

PG&E has satisfied seven of the National Transportation Safety Board recommendations that came as a result of its investigation into the 2010 pipeline accident in San Bruno, the NTSB said in a letter.

The NTSB, in a recent letter to the company

March 25, 2013

Vallejo & Soledad: Open Houses to Answer Questions about Hydrostatic Pressure Testing

PG&E will host open houses this week in Vallejo and Soledad to talk to residents about upcoming hydrostatic pressure testing.

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March 6, 2013

VIDEO: ‘Auto Show’ Displays Innovative Vehicles Helping PG&E Provide Safe, Reliable Gas Service

What do a work truck, an SUV and a 38-foot bus have in common? For PG&E, these vehicles are helping the utility ensure safe, reliable gas operations. PG&E recently brought the vehicles together at its service center in Sacramento for a kind of mini auto show.

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February 28, 2013

PG&E Begins High-Tech Survey of EntireTransmission Pipeline System

Over the next few months, PG&E and contract crews will be doing a high-tech mapping survey of all of its 6,750-mile gas transmission pipeline system. Using highly precise GPS mapping tools, the crews will survey areas above transmission pipelines, called utility rights-of-way, which are located along residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural properties.

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February 20, 2013

PG&E Showcases Vehicles Used to Ensure Safe, Reliable Gas Operations

In Sacramento today, PG&E hosted a Gas Safety Fleet Expo to showcase the utility’s newest vehicles that are helping crews determine where improvements can be made to the gas pipeline system. “This modern technology is going to put us in a whole new league in terms of our ability to safeguard our system,” said PG&E executive Kevin Knapp about the three vehicles on exhibit..

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February 11, 2013

PG&E Benchmarks Gas Training with Industry Best, Shares with Other Utilities

As PG&E works hard to improve the safety of its gas pipeline operations, support is coming from what once would have been an unlikely resource — fellow utilities. Last week in Houston, PG&E shared the results of its benchmarking study that looks at the best training ideas from North America’s biggest utilities.

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February 6, 2013

PG&E Convenes Country’s Top Utilities to Discuss Gas Employee Training

At a PG&E-sponsored industry conference in Houston, Nick Stavropoulos talked about the importance of training and sharing best practices. PG&E’s head of gas operations was the keynote speaker at the two-day event.

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