Inline Inspection

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...

The Challenge of an All-In-One Inspection - First Results and Benefits

The Challenge of an All-In-One Inspection - First Results and Benefits
The Challenge of an All-In-One Inspection - First Results and Benefits
For more than 5 years TRAPIL, a pipeline operator has researched an inspection tool that would allow, in a single run, the detection, location, identification and sizing of dents, metal losses and crack anomalies (axial and circumferential) affecting liquid product pipelines. The search for an “all-in-one” tool would generate gains in terms of...

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...

Innovation Brings Pipeline Back to Normal

T.D.Williamson
T.D.Williamson
Before the operator of a gas export pipeline offshore Asia could isolate the line and replace leaking pig trap valves on their platform and perform in-line inspection (ILI), they had to remove a serious obstacle: a cleaning pig that had stalled just beyond the pig launcher. Because there is no standard tool for recovering a stalled pig, at least...

A New Phased Array Sensor for Pipeline Inspection – Optimization and Quantitative Performance Evaluation

Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes
The phased array technique allows for a flexible adaption of the ultrasonic inspection techniques for a large range of applications. By using it in the area of pipeline inspection various inspection modes can be performed simultaneously. That was the reason for Baker Hughes (previously PII Pipeline Solutions) to develop an inspection tool based on...

Long Distance Inline Inspection of an Unpiggable Natural Gas Pipeline with Robotic Technology

Intero Integrity
Intero Integrity
In-line inspection (ILI) is a pipeline assessment method used by operators to receive a comprehensive integrity assessment of their pipeline. However, ILI may become unfeasible due to factors such as insufficient flow/pressure parameters for propulsion, pipeline features such as valves, back-toback elbows and unbarred tees, as well as the lack of...

Advances in In-Field ILI Indication and Material Verification

Rosen Group
Rosen Group
Post in-line inspection (ILI) digs are essential tools in the integrity arsenal to validate and verify ILI tool performance and provide data for use in post-ILI integrity assessments. In addition, dig verification can be utilized to validate material properties, increase confidence in feature characterization or even replace previously lost records...

Maximising Accuracy Of MFL Pipeline Inspection

Maximising Accuracy Of MFL Pipeline Inspection
Maximising Accuracy Of MFL Pipeline Inspection
There have been significant advances in magnetic flux leakag e (MFL) in-line inspection (ILI) technologies in recent years. These have led to imp rovements in Probability of Detection (POD), Probability of Ide ntification (POI) and Probability of Sizing (POS). Whilst often the main focus of these advancements is the inspection vehicle itself, the...

Cost-effective Ultrasonic Inspection of Large Diameter Pipelines: Technology Update

Cost-effective Ultrasonic Inspection of Large Diameter Pipelines: Technology Update
Cost-effective Ultrasonic Inspection of Large Diameter Pipelines: Technology Update
To be successful in the ILI business, organization require the right mix of technological capabilities, operational agility and quality standards. The business is fairly competitive, and often technological capabilities are pivotal in the customer proposition of the company. However, the best technologies are not solely required for successful ILI...

Assessing Repeat ILI Data Using Signal-to-Signal Comparison Techniques

Baker Hughes, a GE Company
Baker Hughes, a GE Company
For pipelines with successive ILI runs the detected population of corrosion defects can be compared to identify both internal and external corrosion growth. Depending on the number of defects to be compared, the assessment can demand significant effort and expertise to ensure accurate and meaningful correlations between often very large ILI data...

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...