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2 | EXECUTIVE OUTLOOK
Preparing for Greater
Profitability
4 | GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Industry Commentary from
Around the World
6 | TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
Changing How We Think
About Low Flow/Low Pressure
8 | SAFETY MATTERS
Safety Imagination, Chronic
Unease, and Storytelling
10 | FUTURE THINKING
Increasing Regulation and
Cost-Effective Compliance
12 | MARKET REPORT
Shale Success in a Low Price
Environment
20 | TOUCHPOINTS
Pipeline Events, Papers
and Conferences
28 | BY THE NUMBERS
Four Steps to Battling Pipeline
Integrity Threats
14 | Corrosion: The Pervasive Menace
As the rest of the world comes to grips with the unrelenting
threat and growing cost of corrosion, the pipeline industry is
already at the frontlines meeting the threat head-on.
22 | Containing Catastrophe
Whether during pipe laying or for platform protection,
advances in non-intrusive isolation technology are helping
offshore operators reduce risk and mitigate incidents.
D E P A R T M E N T S
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jim Myers Morgan
MANAGING EDITOR Waylon Summers
ART DIRECTOR Joe Antonacci
DESIGN PRODUCTION Kat Eaton
DIGITAL PRODUCTION Jim Greenway, Ward Mankin
PHOTOGRAPHY Adam Murphy,
ILLUSTRATION Invisible Element
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NUMBERS 4BattlingPipeline IntegrityThreats steps to
PIPELINE INTEGRITY: A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW
Pipeline operators face the continual challenge of delivering energy to the
world in the safest andmost economicalways. They battle aging infrastructure,
weather economic pressures, adjust to increasing regulation, and engage
communities to achieve social license. Fortunately, continual advances in
pipeline threat detection, such asmultiple dataset platforms, are supporting
them every inch of theway. Follow steps 1-4 to see how.
DETECT While running anMDS platform,
mechanical (i.e., third-party) damage is detectedby a number of onboard technologies.
CHARACTERIZE Each technology on theMDS platform
provides a unique layer of damage information, providing full
characterization of the threat.
PRIORITIZE/MITIGATE
With the final integrity report
delivered in close proximity to the inspection, the pipeline
operator is able to:
REPORTWhen critically assessed by specialized software and data analysts, the
overlappingMDS data helps determine the exact characteristics and severity of the entire
seriesof interacting threats –a re-roundeddentwith gougingand crack-like features.
Metal loss, re-rounding, cycling, dent length and depth, strain and severity ranking.
• Assess the pipeline’smostcritical needs
• Prioritizemaintenance/repair
based on severity
• Minimize cost by avoidingunnecessary digs
• Ensure safe operation for its
employees and the community
MULTIPLE DATASET
(MDS) PLATFORMScan
supply pipeline operatorswith a
comprehensive view of their line
integrity by providing a vehicle
for an evolving combination of
overlapping inspection technol-
ogies to be run on a single
tool, at the same time.
THERESULT:robust threat
detection and advanced
characterization.
Locates the anomaly relative
to the centerline of the pipe. XYZMAPPING
DEFORMATION
LOW FIELDMAGNETIC
FLUX LEAKAGE
Defines the anomaly as a dent.
Identifies re-rounding
(or rebounding) of the dent.
Recognizes volumetric
metal loss within the dent.
HIGH RESOLUTION
MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE
SpirALL®MAGNETICFLUX LEAKAGE Identifies axially orientedmetal
loss or gouging within the dent.
SMFL
LFM
MFL
DEF
XYZ
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