Special reports

Latin America is offering a wide range of opportunities and challenges to the oil and gas industry, explains Gordon Cope.

Catherine Landry, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, USA, discusses the association’s role in fostering pipeline projects that respect and benefit all.

Peter Watson, Chairman and CEO, National Energy Board, Canada, describes the board’s efforts and initiatives to regulate energy infrastructure for the 21st century.

Will China trigger the next global oil price shock? Ng Weng Hoong investigates.

Dylan White, Genscape, USA, explores how extreme weather events, such as wildfires, earthquakes and hurricanes, can threaten crude pipeline operations.

Pipeline maintenance is vital to managing risks and the flow of product in oil and gas pipelines. Consequently, there are various reasons for pigging a line.

Oil industry professionals rely on NACE International’s comprehensive collection of books, standards and reports.

Resulting from decades of experience, BASF understands the oil and gas industry’s demands and continues to establish state-of-the-art solutions even for highly specialised applications like pipeline maintenance.

Complete asset integrity management—maintaining the integrity of your pipeline—always requires pigs as an economical first line of defence against internal corrosion.

Kristof Verwaest and Bart Wauterickx, The Sniffers, Belgium, consider some of the challenges that extreme environments have on pipeline inspection operations.

When a challenging multi-diameter buried pipeline in a populous area required inspection, Quest Integrity built a unique custom tool that successfully inspected the pipeline and provided critical insight on the pipeline’s condition.

Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd, established in 1883, has been at the forefront of cost-effective, long-term, corrosion prevention, weatherproofing and sealing technology for over 80 years.

Dawn Rivera, PipeLine Machinery International, USA, discusses safety’s impact on a successful pipeline project.

Creaform reports on the latest developments in 3D technology and what this means for integrity assessment in the industry.

Nicholas J. Clough and James McGinty, Orbital Gas Systems, USA, introduce an alternative way of measuring pipeline gas properties.