Page Tucker, ProStar Geocorp Inc., USA, and Peter Forster, Zetta Business Software Consulting Inc., discuss how cloud and mobile technologies can help mitigate risk concerns facing the pipeline industry. Any damage to the world's vast network of oil and gas pipelines can have serious and far-reaching consequences - including injury, death, environmental impact and disruption of services - that deliver vital energy resources to both the public and industry. Modern technology, which could improve methods that reduce risk by more efficiently capturing, documenting, sharing, monitoring and visualising the precise location and pedigree of the attribute data of pipeline assets is now readily available. Cloud and mobile technologies are widely adopted by other industries, as they have proven to create transparency, improve access to critical information and have made all facets of the workflow processes more streamlined, efficient and effective.
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