Technology for a Better Tomorrow

摘要

THE RD&D ORGANIZATION NYSEARCH,a sub-organization of the Northeast Gas Association, has been serving utilities in North America as a voluntary research and technology program since 1996. NYSEARCH member companies determine the organization's research emphasis, and in recent years, they have leveraged their R&D dollars toward finding technological responses to several key business drivers for the natural gas industry: 1) regulations regarding pipeline integrity inspection, 2) distribution integrity management with a focus on damage prevention, 3) increased diversity in gas supply and the changes resulting from varying gas compositions, and 4) increased emphasis and need to develop tools/technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).