Pipeline pigging and integrity technology / John Tiratsoo, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tiratsoo, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pipeline pigging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs, photographs

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Beaconsfield, England : Clarion Technical Publishers, 2013.

Summary:

Since publication of the first edition of Pipeline Pigging and Integrity Technology 25 years ago, there have been massive advances the pigging and inspection industry: superb high-technology solutions have been developed, using some of the most advanced and reliable technology paralleling the aerospace industry, and feature assessments down to millimetric sizes are almost the norm. Inspection data interpretation has also developed to the stage where it's no longer a black art: survey results can be examined and analysed on a client's own PC or laptop, the thought of which was almost unheard of only a decade ago. But still some basic questions remain unanswered, probably the most basic of all being "how clean is my pipeline?" and "how best to design a pig launcher and receiver?"This book, as with previous editions, provides an overview of some of the latest thinking and achievements in the area of pigging technology and integrity management. Its content is 41 papers from the series of conferences entitled Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management (now known as PPIM) that the publishers have organized in Houston and elsewhere between 2007 and 2012, chosen to represent a wide range of issues concerning the pipeline industry and maintenance of its integrity. Printed in full color throughout.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of contents

List of contributors

Section 1. Cleaning and black powder

Black powder migration in gas pipelines and associated problems

Development and operational experience of a new pigging technology for effective black powder removal

Enhancing pipeline efficiency through chemical cleaning

Chemical gel cleaning prior to MFL ILI of a natural gas transmission pipeline

Chemical-assisted pipeline pigging cleaning operations

Section 2: Corrosion and defect assessment

Development of a predictive model for pipeline external corrosion rates

Operator assessment of ILI defects

ILI performance verification and assessment

Development and application of local corrosion growth rates for pipeline integrity assessments

Section 3: EMAT

ILI with high-resolution EMAT technology: crack detection and coating disbondment

Validation of the latest generation EMAT ILI technology for SCC management

Evaluation of EMAT tool performance by monitoring industry experience

Combining EMAT ILI multiple data sets for crack detection in natural gas pipelines to reduce validation costs

Section 4: Failure assessment

A methodology for the prediction of pipeline failure frequency due to external interference

Evaluating damage to on- and offshore pipelines using data acquired using ILI

Effects of inline inspection sizing uncertainties on the accuracy of the largest features and corrosion rate statistics

Section 5: Integrity management

Integrity management of a pipeline crossing the Andes

Legal issues in pipeline integrity programmes

How well do you know your pipeline?

Advanced assessment of pipeline integrity using ILI data

Measuring the effectiveness of the US IMP

Integrity management of offshore pipelines using risk-based inspection planning.

A review of crack-detection ILI case studies

Optimizing magnetic-flux leakage inspection sizing model performance using high-resolution non-destructive examination data

Predicting future pipeline integrity in landslides using ILI mapping data

Section 6: New technology

A case study of the crack sizing performance of the GE ultrasonic phased-array tool on the Centennial pipeline

Recent innovations in pipeline seam-weld integrity assessment

Improving ILI benchmarking through new technology

Section 7: Operations

Commissioning the world's longest LPG pipeline and retrieval of stuck pigs: a case study

Factors affecting the design and selection of pigging tools for multi-diameter pipelines

Design and construction of 42-in liquids'-pipeline batch-pig facilities

Ethanol transportation: status of research and integrity management

The fundamentals of pigging systems and the importance of trap assessments

Multi-diameter bi-directional pigging for pipeline precommissioning

Capabilities of MFL inspection in Duplex steel pipelines

Augmenting ILI tools to assess external coatings

Section 8: Administrative and regulatory issues

Integrity first: voluntary performance reporting in a goal-oriented regulatory environment

Dealing with uncertainty in pipeline integrity and rehabilitation

Section 9: Stress-corrosion cracking

Re-assessment intervals for managing stress-corrosion cracking in pipelines

Self-excited eddy currents for the detection of SCC

A new joint-industry project addressing the integrity management of SCC in gas transmission pipelines

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62870-531-0

0-9717945-0-2