March 2019, Vol. 246, No. 3
Editor's Notebook
Unwanted Night Moves
Whenever the subject of internal corrosion in pipelines comes up, it rekindles some unpleasant memories from my extensive time as a pipeline company spokesperson. Being part of an emergency response team for over 12 years was rewarding in many ways, but there was always an uneasy feeling when the phone would ring in the middle of the night. Being on-call 24-7 wasn’t ideal and those 2a.m. phone calls were rarely wrong numbers. On the contrary, they almost always reached the person intended. The majority of calls I received during that time were categorized as a Class I emergency, which was nothing more than “a heads up” notification that something had occurred at a specific location but was
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