It’s a tragic irony that the day before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil well disaster, executives from BP and the rig’s operators, Transocean, visited the platform on a “management tour” that included a number of specific safety-related purposes.

Story update 10/9/2023: This article is a corrected version. The earlier version suffered from a programming error that affected all of the PID results.

World shipping changed forever when the Panama Canal opened on Aug. 15, 1914.

There has been some misunderstanding about the intent of ASTM E74—“Standard practice of calibration of force-measuring instruments for verifying the force indication of testing machines.” When it was written back in 1974, the standard’s intent was to establish calibr