State and congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to impose new requirements for automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on pipelines after last week’s San Bruno natural gas conflagration raged ...

Each new valve manifold box features a new GSM series controller. Four line semi automatic VMBs include the new GSM-VS4 controller, which replaces the now obsolete GSM 1x4 controller. The GSM-VS4 ...

“A client of mine [says] he rarely hears people complain [about oil pipelines] while wearing a burlap sack and riding a horse,” pipeline integrity consultant Andrew Kendrick noted while discussing the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gas feeding the flames devouring a San Bruno neighborhood could have been shut off an hour sooner if PG&E had automatic or remotely controlled shutoff valves on the pipeline that ...

Federal investigators and state legislators are zeroing in on whether inferior shut-off valves on the natural gas pipeline that exploded last week in San Bruno led to a deadlier, costlier disaster.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Tuesday it intends to replace hundreds of manually operated valves on natural gas pipelines with automatic shutoffs, devices that the utility concedes would have ...

San Bruno Assemblyman Jerry Hill says PG&E should have installed an automatic shutoff valve for such a large pipeline in such a populated area. "If an appropriate valve had been in place the gas could ...

The committee will study current and potential methodologies and standards, including regulatory criteria, for deciding when an automatic shutoff valve, remote controlled valve or other equivalent ...