Pipeline pigging news
A new approach to safety and design of pig trap quick actuating closures
Pipeline operators must quickly launch and retrieve inline inspection (ILI) tools and cleaning pigs without compromising the safety of field personnel, damaging equipment or releasing hydrocarbons into the environment. A quick actuating closure (QAC) or quick opening closure (QOC) can provide the solution to these issues.
Closures that comply
Rolf Gunnar Lie and Neil McKnight, T.D. Williamson, discuss a new approach to the safety and design of pig trap quick actuating closures.
Automating data collection
The powerful combination of IoT sensors and satellite connectivity can transform unpiggable pipelines into a valuable data source, says Tom Krikke, HiberHilo.
Pigging Q&A
World Pipelines asks Italmatch Chemicals some questions about pipeline pigging.
Join NDT Global at PPIM 2023
NDT Global are delighted to announce their attendance at PPIM 2023 in Houston, Texas.
Black powder: the enemy within
Tony Joynston, Eclipse Magnetics, discusses some common downstream problems often arising from the pigging process.
A straight line to ILI success
Controlling ILI tool speed with gas recompression delivers better data without venting or flaring, says Adam Murray, WeldFit Corpration.
No moving forward without it
Rolf Gunnar Lie, T.D. Williamson, Asia Pacific, introduces a bespoke recovery tool that rescues stalled pigs and enables isolation.
World Pipelines Spotlight with ROSEN Group
In this spotlight interview we discuss an article that was published in the August 2022 issue of World Pipelines, entitled ‘Roundtripping the unpiggables’. Written by Chris Holliday, Corey Richards and Simon Irvine, ROSEN Group.
World Pipelines Spotlight with Propipe
This spotlight session reviews and discusses Propipe’s recent article for World Pipelines, entitled ‘Advanced platform for pig tracking’, written by Geoff Wilkinson and Chris Loadman.