Hear directly from experts and industry leaders in risk, safety, construction and security.
Through a series of exclusive, technical presentations, you will learn how to approach the design, construction and operation of oil and gas pipelines in extreme environments.
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World Pipelines Editor, Elizabeth Corner, opens Extreme 2020 with a brief welcome announcement, in which she will introduce the speakers and the conference programme.
HKA presents three extreme pipeline construction case studies from around the world (Asia, Europe, MENA), detailing the main challenges of each project, the events that impacted the project and how these events were dealt with by the parties involved. The presentation will also offer a retrospective look at how these events could have been avoided.
Julian Haslam-Jones is a Director with HKA, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has 19 years’ experience in claims management, contract risk assessment, commercial management, cost management, procurement, negotiation/amicable settlement, mediation, arbitration, prolongation and delay costs, escalation, project management, project controls, project monitoring and program management.
TurkStream is characterised by its significant water depths and relatively large outside diameter of the pipeline. The TurkStream offshore gas pipeline has been one of the most challenging pipeline projects to date. Many technical difficulties were faced before construction, for example in terms of pipeline design, selection of the best route and for laying the pipe in an anoxic environment.
For the industry to be able to manufacture the line pipe to the project specification, a complete materials development programme was required. Together with various partners in the industry, the project company successfully pushed the limits of technology by executing a programme that was effectively the largest qualification programme in the industry’s history up to that moment.
The American Petroleum Institute (API), in co-ordination with sister trades, has introduced an Assessment Programme geared to help pipeline operators assess their management systems in alignment with API Recommended Practice 1173 – Pipeline Safety Management Systems (PSMS). This industry-led programme will help operators benchmark their programmes with industry-qualified assessors, whose goal is to help a site identify their opportunities for improvement and to share good practices seen across the industry.
In extreme environments, a robust PSMS and an associated risk assessment process is key in assuring your pipeline system’s integrity. As with any assessment, the Pipeline Third-Party Assessment Programme can help your sites and your leadership implement robust risk management programmes to both identify and mitigate risks associated with operating in these environments, in alignment with the requirements of RP 1173
Global pipeline infrastructure exists in extremes. Whether that extreme is climatic, geographic, strategic, political, societal or even criminal, these extremes pose operational and economic challenges to all stake-holders; business, employees, governments, consumers and populations on multiple levels across the globe.
In this presentation, AKE International will look at current extreme pipeline risk environments; within the context of COVID-19 and its repercussions as well as considering historical presidents and looking at the impact of innovation and advances in technology on the security of these assets.
Pipeline construction and operations in northern climates face risks and challenges that have evolved over recent years and continue to do so. Changes in the environmental, political, and operational climates are generating more risk than pipeline operators have seen in the past, meaning that the need to quickly adapt is essential, if they wish to continue to thrive.
Pressures in declining commodity pricing and additional legislative and regulation hurdles are adding complexity to the risk profiles of pipeline installations, for both existing and proposed projects. This presentation by Marsh Risk Consulting is designed to document and discuss these risks and pressures.
This presentation will highlight the possible threats that buried on shore pipelines can face from factors that can be very difficult to identify. A variety of chemical conditions, the presence and activity of microorganisms and the contamination of land can all lead to extremely aggressive external environments.
Drawing from DNV GL’s wealth of industrial experience in both corrosion engineering and pipeline failure analysis, the presentation will demonstrate how these conditions can be recognised in the first instance. Using case studies, they will also discuss appropriate and effective methods for monitoring pipeline health in areas which are expected to be aggressive. Finally, they will share experiences of pipeline failure investigations, showing how the root cause of these failures can be exposed and what lessons these pipelines can offer the industry.
World Pipelines Editor, Elizabeth Corner, brings Extreme 2020 to an end with some brief closing comments.
