Pete Domenici: “I call to the attention of Senators on the floor, in particular Senator Breaux and Senator McCain and perhaps the New…”

“I call to the attention of Senators on the floor, in particular Senator Breaux and Senator McCain and perhaps the New Jersey Senators, that one of the issues being discussed as we work on this bill is the advancement of technology so inspections can be done better. There is a very interesting new technology--this bill provides for some more money for research and technology--but there is a very interesting technology that is about to be offered to the pipelines that has been developed by a little company in New Mexico. Their name is LaSen Corporation. They have developed a system where a device is put on a light airplane and you fly over the pipeline. The device picks up the radiation from any kind of leakage whatsoever, reports it to the instrumentation. They can do 500 miles of pipeline a today, where today we do 5 to 10. They can do it at a cheaper price. With this bill putting a little more into technologies and companies with innovation such as this one, we are going to find better ways to do the inspections covering a greater number of miles per day at much cheaper rates. This bill will push that.”