American Midstream To Abandon Midla Pipeline

摘要

American Midstream Partners LP has filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to abandon use of its 1920's vintage Midla Pipeline in order to ensure the safety of people and property along its route. In its application, Midla explains that, due to original pipeline construction tech- niques, modern tools cannot be used to find or predict leaks. While pipeline has leaked for decades, leakage rates are on the increase; cultivation and erosion have reduced pipeline burial depths; floods on the Mississippi River have destroyed six of eight river crossings; and development, including two schools, a prison and a planned housing community, has encroached on the right-of-way.