Inspect the unexpected

By providing the power of clarity to enable the best outcomes, NDT Global continually strives to push boundaries and set new standards for inline inspection (ILI), data analysis, and integrity assessment. This sentiment could not be truer with our latest technology development, ETECTM, a technology platform that creates innovative solutions and opportunities to capture new datasets during the ILI inspection process.

Operators and regulators across the energy industry, striving for green energy alternatives, are re-purposing ageing pipelines that currently transport petroleum and natural gas to pipelines that will transport hydrogen or CO₂ in the future.

By leveraging advanced technologies and measurement principles, like eddy current, pipeline operators are able to gain critical information to help understand and address any potential risks prior to injecting hydrogen into their pipelines. NDT Global’s ETEC technology provides insights such as material properties, as well as direct measurement of the stresses on the pipeline. This provides operators the ability to identify areas of crack susceptibility or the potential for any other injurious features.

Geohazards

The first application of ETEC technology, ETEC Geo, provides pipeline operators facing geohazard challenges with highly accurate data and actionable insights to address geotechnical threats.

Combining eddy current with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a geometry tool offers a highly accurate bi-axial strain measurement, delivering the best data to detect and characterise geohazards in pipelines …

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