Special reports

Rystad Energy shares a special market update diving into the specifics of the announcement, the rationale and comparing it to other recent shale megadeals.

Josh Pendleton, Skipper NDT, France, discusses employing new technology in pipeline integrity management to ensure the continued safe and environmentally friendly delivery of energy, whilst mitigating the increasing risks of incidents to nearby environments and communities.

Markus Büchler, SGK, Switzerland, and Mark Glinka, EMPIT GmbH, Germany, draw conclusions from measurements and assessments of different coating integrity techniques on buried pipelines, namely the newly developed current magnetometry inspection.

Andrew Vana, Manager of Specialised Services, RMI, USA, discusses providing health, safety and environmental support to varied and remote pipeline construction projects.

Morgan Bowling, Seeq Corporation, USA, explains how advanced analytics solutions can help improve operational efficiency and increase business value for petrochemical companies, refineries, and pipeline operators.

Glen Grundberg, General Manager of Denso North America Inc., Canada (a member of Winn & Coales International Ltd), explains the rigorous training and certification process for liquid epoxy coatings in Canada.

Alessandro Terenzi, Giorgio Arcangeletti, Enrico Bonato, Elvira Aloigi, Lorenzo Maggiore, and Annalisa Di Felice, Saipem S.p.A., offer an overview of the challenges and opportunities for CO2 pipelines in the energy transition, drawing on offshore and onshore case studies.

Jay Warner, Dairyland Electrical Industries, USA, Jerzy Sibila and Jerzy Mossakowski, CORRSTOP, Poland, explain how AC mitigation is a proven technique to solve AC interference problems on pipelines, referring specifically to the use of DC decouplers.

Fadillah Syahputra, Zugao Chen and Tim Zhang, Deyuan Pipeline Technology Co., Ltd, China, describe detecting internal corrosion defects through eddy current inline inspection technology across China’s W shale gas field pipelines.

Paul Stockwell, Managing Director, Process Vision, describes how current standards fail to detect liquid carryover in gas processing.

The challenges of in-service welding (ISW) operations on a high-pressure, high-flow, large diameter gas pipeline are outlined by Frede Maxwell, Brian Anderson, Paul Gonzales, Darren Sutherland, Bie Cornell and Dave Albertson, WeldFit.

Jeff Shorter, Portfolio Director, Eugene Boakye-Firempong, Product Manager and Ronald Panti, Operations Manager, Baker Hughes, detail the benefits of RTP pipe performance for onshore oil and gas pipelines, referring to improved corrosion resistance, rapid deployment, low maintenance, and a smaller carbon footprint.

World Pipelines asks UAVOS, USA, about automated scanning and area surveying solutions for pipeline construction.

Dave Forster, Propipe, UK, describes taking an open approach to developing new pipeline pig designs and types.

The United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, for the past six years in a row, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).