While looking for vids of the MI oil spill, I ran across an ad for a pipeline leak detection system

[Bozita]

... with automatic shutdown.

Here's the ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDu39hwplBg


I knew nothing of such services. So I did some googling (pipeline leak detection system) and found a number of such companies:



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American Leak Detection
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Acoustic Leak Detector
www.leakdetector.it detects leaks on subsea pipelines rov, towed, diver mode (by Colmar)

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Selecting a pipeline leak detection system, a practical approach
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Publ 1155 is a defined methodology for evaluating leak detection systems for a particular pipeline. A vendor's model is used to model a specific pipeline, ...
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Technical Review of Leak Detection Technologies
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3 PIPELINE LEAK DETECTION SYSTEMS. Methods used to detect product leaks along a pipeline can be divided into two categories, externally based (direct) or ...
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Pipeline Leak Detection
PipePatrol KROHNE's Pipeline Leak Detection & Localization System ... KROHNE's pipeline leak detection and localisation system has a very fast response time ...
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Leak Detection system in Large diameter pipes


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Sahara is a Leak detection system for large dianeter pipelines done by PPIC Canada (905)6241040 in Latin America, Canada and USA
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Leak detection systems. ATMOS International are experts in pipeline management ... ATMOS Pipe is a statistical pipeline leak detection and location system, ...
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Jump to API RP 1130 “Computational Pipeline Monitoring for Liquids” (USA)‎: Internally based systems utilize field ... used for inferring a leak. ...
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Oil, Gas and Water pipeline leak detection and monitoring systems from Sensornet ... Sensornet's Digital Pipeline Leak Detection system uses next generation ...
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Oil in water monitoring. Sub-Sea Pipeline Leak Detection System ...
Sub-sea pipeline leak detection system, Hydrocarbon Monitoring, fluorescein and Rhodamine dye tracing.
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Page 63 of Standard Test Procedures for Evaluating Leak Detection Methods: Pipeline Leak Detection Systems (PDF) (1 pg, 178K, About PDF) ...
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[MichiganVote]

1. They wainted 12 hours to do anything.

[Bozita]

2. These companies say they can detect a leak and shut down the pipeline in less than 60 sec.

Folks in Utah and Michigan may be surprised to find these services openly available.