December 2020, Vol. 247, No. 12
Features
U.S. DOE to Fund $33 Million in Natural Gas Pipeline Retrofitting Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy will provide $33 million for 10 projects established to develop natural gas pipeline rehabilitation technology. The funding is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Rapid Encapsulation of Pipelines Avoiding Intensive Replacement (REPAIR) program. REPAIR teams will develop natural gas transmission pipeline retrofitting technology to rehabilitate existing cast iron and bare steel pipes by creating new, robust pipes inside of old ones. “The United States is now the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas and in order to keep up with this growing industry, it is imperative we modernize and build out infrastructure to safe

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