Pigging and inspection news

Alejandrino Ruiz, John Healy and Bradford Edwards, Pipecare US LLC, discuss detecting and sizing small diameter ‘pinhole’ type defects.

Major upgrade offers completely revamped VXinspect module, broadened quality control capabilities, interoperability with robotics systems, and unprecedented usability.

Newly formed specialist manned submersible services provider choses underwater tracking systems from marine technology company to support underwater vehicles.

Waiver from Federal Aviation Administration allows Percepto to operate beyond visual line of sight close to structures without ground-based systems, providing scalability and cost-savings.

Global Drone Inspection (GDI) and JOME Engineering sign agreement whereby JOME will become local service station partner for GDI.

Lance Wethey, ROSEN, explores facilitating engineering critical assessments of challenging pipelines with ILI.

Blue Essence USV receives full navigation licensing from the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.

Saudi Electricity Company improves service and reduces costs with Fluke inspection equipment.

This next-generation scanner is a two-axis encoding corrosion mapping solution that is easy to deploy and optimised for one-person operation.

The powerful combination of IoT sensors and satellite connectivity can transform unpiggable pipelines into a valuable data source, says Tom Krikke, HiberHilo.