Management of hazardous material transportation

Disaster management on hazardous materials transport pipelines

Pipelines for the transport of hazardous materials, covered by ministerial decrees, have developed strongly since the 1950s. As such, they now constitute networks classified into three families of hazardous materials, natural gas (which represents 73% of the total length of the 50,000 km of the French pipeline network), oil and gas products (which represent the majority of the total length of the network) and...