Frequently Asked Questions from Customers
Q1: Who is PRCI?
Answer: Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI) is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit corporation comprised of energy pipeline companies. PRCI was first organized in 1952, as the Pipeline Research Committee (American Gas Association), by 15 natural gas transmission pipeline companies to address the problem of long-running brittle fractures in natural gas transmission pipelines. Over the years PRCI has increasingly focused on near-term integrity and reliability solutions to design and operating problems and realizing the opportunities that an industry-managed pipeline program generates. As the focus of the work has evolved and broadened so too has PRCI's membership with an increasing focus on oil and petroleum products pipelines. As a result, PRCI is now a critical resource for all pipelines, and is the only pipeline organization whose sole purpose is pipeline technical research.
Q2: What Pipeline Companies are Members of PRCI?September 23, 2004r: MEMBER COMPANIES
- BP p.l.c.
- CMS Energy
- Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
- Consumers Energy
- Dominion Resources, Inc.
- DONG A/S (Denmark)
- Duke Energy Company
- El Paso Corporation
- Enron Corp.
- Exxon Mobil Corporation
- Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd
- Gas Technology Institute
- Gasum Oy (Finland)
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- Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP
- N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie (The Netherlands)
- Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
- Shell Pipeline Company LP
- Southern California Gas Company
- Statoil ASA (Norway)
- TransCanada PipeLines Limited
- Transco p.l.c.
- TransGas Limited
- Westcoast Energy Inc.
- Williams Energy
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Q3: What is the Structure & Organization of PRCI?
Program Governance
PRCI is governed by a Board of Directors, comprised of one voting member from each member pipeline company, and the Gas Technology Institute (GTI). The Board of Directors meets two times each year, in early Spring and in conjunction with PRCI's corporate Annual Meeting in midsummer. The 9-member Executive Committee of the Board develops policy and program recommendations for the Board and exercises executive decision-making for the Board in specific areas of delegation.
Program Execution
Initial technical program planning and program execution and management is the responsibility of six subject matter technical committees comprised of technical experts assigned by member companies. The technical committees manage the technology programs, and the individual projects that comprise them, working directly with technology and research firms and universities around the world.
The 6 standing technical committees are:
- Corrosion & Inspection
- Materials
- Design, Construction & Operations
- Compressor Station
- Measurement
- Underground Storage
Q4: What Pipeline Research Documents are Available from PRCI?
Answer: Please visit our PRCI Documents page or
http://www.prci.com/publications/index_catalogno.htm for a comprehensive listing of all available pipeline documents.
