Challenging Pipelines

Innovative Pipeline Inspection Technique: Tackling Complex Manifold Challenges with a Dual-Tool Assembly

Innovative Pipeline Inspection Technique: Tackling Complex Manifold Challenges with a Dual-Tool Assembly
Innovative Pipeline Inspection Technique: Tackling Complex Manifold Challenges with a Dual-Tool Assembly
Intero Integrity Services was tasked by a prominent energy company with inspecting a 36" pipeline in 2023, which included a challenging manifold inspection. The challenge stemmed from a manifold featuring six large-diameter take-offs, posing a significant obstacle for standard bidirectional pigs and inspection tools. Following successful...

In-pipe Ultrasonic Inspections of Mud and Tailing Lines: how to manage difficult to remove Scaling, provide quality and accurate Defect Assessments of steel and HDPE

In-pipe Ultrasonic Inspections of Mud and Tailing Lines: how to manage difficult to remove Scaling, provide quality and accurate Defect Assessments of steel and HDPE
In-pipe Ultrasonic Inspections of Mud and Tailing Lines: how to manage difficult to remove Scaling, provide quality and accurate Defect Assessments of steel and HDPE
Rio Tinto Yarwun Aluminium Refinery (RTY) is expanding its pipeline integrity assessment technologies. As part of this effort, RTY has been working with Intero Integrity Services (Intero) to introduce Intero’s Pipeline Surveyor services, a free-swimming pipe inspection tool. Rio Tinto is one of the world's largest mining companies, operating in 25...

Small Diameter Pipeline Inspection

Small Diameter Pipeline Inspection
Small Diameter Pipeline Inspection
Conventional tools for inspecting pipelines have historically been designed for long length, larger diameter transmission lines, typically up to 48 inches. Correspondingly, pipeline inspection gauges (PIGs) designed to inspect these pipelines have comparable diameters and consist of multiple carriages equipped with diverse inspection tools, logic...

Managing the Threat of Hard Spots in Gas Transmission Pipelines

Managing the Threat of Hard Spots in Gas Transmission Pipelines
Managing the Threat of Hard Spots in Gas Transmission Pipelines
Hard spots are a type of threat many operators are managing as part of their integrity management plan. Hard spots are areas on the pipeline that are more susceptible to cracking or could pose an integrity concern in combination with other threats. The United States gas transmission regulation, 49 CFR 192.3, defines a hard spot as “an area on steel...

Intelligent Solutions for Inspection of Challenging Pipelines- Case Study: 10” Rigid Offshore Oil Riser Inspection for Wall Thickness and Cracks

ROSEN Group
ROSEN Group
Since the introduction of in-line inspection tools (ILI) more than 50 years ago, there have always been pipelines that were considered unpiggable. Typically, it is a combination of various circumstances relating to pipeline design, operating conditions, and/or characteristics of the medium that prevents a successful in-line inspection using...

Off-line Internal Inspection of Pipelines – An Important Tool for Investment Decisions

CEPS a.s.
CEPS a.s.
A natural gas leakage was detected on the unpiggable high-pressure DN 600 pipeline Kasejovice – Mikulášov in Czech Republic after 50 years of operation. The pipeline was excavated and found to suffer from extensive corrosion; corrosion of a similar extent was also found when another section of the pipeline was excavated on the same location. The...

Challenges with CO2 EOR Production Pipelines

INA - Industrija nafte
INA - Industrija nafte
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technology with injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) in production oil fields become common method of oil recovery increase. From the first commercial CO2 EOR injection project on the Kelly-Snyder Field in West Texas past more than 45 years. However, there can be significant corrosion management challenges resulting from...

Simplification Improves Batch-tracking Accuracy in Pipeline with Slack Conditions

Atmos International
Atmos International
A “lean model” that minimizes uncertainties by simulating only the necessary characteristics for batch tracking proves to be more accurate than complex models that make a plethora of assumptions in attempting to model every single characteristic of pipelines with extreme elevation changes and slack. Energy supply chains require energy companies to...

Inspection of Challenging Pipelines - Latest Developments + Case Studies

KTN AS & Kontrolltechnik
KTN AS & Kontrolltechnik
Pipeline inspection using intelligent pigs is currently the safest and most reliable way to detect relevant defects, to plan repairs and maintenance and to calculate the pipeline lifetime. However, there are still many pipeline systems on- and offshore which were never designed and built for conventional ILI tools and modifications would be...