Entries for month: November 2009


Pipeline Operators Should Prepare to Abandon Stationing

Geography Provides Many Advantages

Over the past 30 years, technology has revolutionized the pipeline industry. We moved from total stations to GPS for survey activities, paper-and-pen field data collection migrated to mobile devices, and generation of alignment sheets is now completed by automated processing. While we have implemented these changes and many others, we continue to use the same system for defining the position of pipeline and inline assets: stationing.

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