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Special reports

Fighting corrosion with chemical expertise

Catherine Rowley-Williams, OMMICA Ltd, Scotland, outlines how chemical treatment, including corrosion inhibitors and biocides, can minimise the risk of corrosion on pipelines, drawing on a case study from the North Sea.

 

Simplifying monitoring for gas flare units

Brian Lawson, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Fluid Components International, Derik Hoover, President, Hoover Energy, and Mike Conn, President, ESquaredi, analyse how a thermal flowmeter with multi-calibration groups has simplified a portable monitoring system for flare gas units.

 

Detect, protect – perfect

Jordan Ferguson, CEO, Pier Solutions, discusses the importance of hydrogen detection and safety in the pipeline market.

 

Unlocking sea state insights

Successful offshore operations, particularly in oil and gas pipelay activities, heavily depend on understanding sea state conditions, emphasises Chris Moncrieff, Miros, drawing on a Northern Lights pipelay project.

 
 
 

Choosing the direct or indirect path

Jeremy Silber, Eric Yang, Christopher Lepore and Yash Yadav, Delta Energy Group, USA, compare pipeline leak detection technologies and the challenges and misconception of fibre optic leak detection.

 

Significant strides in methane reduction

Daniel Kashmir, CEO and Co-Founder, Momentick, explores the key factors that complicate methane detection, its economic and environmental impacts, and the efforts needed to address this pressing issue.

 

Catching up with composite repair

Matthew Green, Director of Technical Service, CSNRI, considers the past, present and future of engineered composite repair systems for pipelines.

 

Midstream demystified

Sanjay Patel, Managing Director, Tembo Global Industries Ltd., India, provides this overview of the evolution of oil and gas pipelines and the overall midstream sector over the course of the last few decades.

 

Supercali-thermoplastic

Martin van Onna, co-founder and CEO, Strohm, Netherlands, reflects on a recent breakthrough in the adoption of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) offshore Brazil, and what it means for the energy transition at large.

 
 
 
 

Reuters: new Permian oil pipelines unlikely to be built, say top operators

According to Reuters, a wave of consolidation in the top US shale field has concentrated output in the hands of companies that are promising to restrain output so as not to crash prices by over-producing. Pipeline firms also have embraced acquisitions over new construction.