Integrity Management

Operations & Integrity Management and Compliance in an age of IIOT

Honeywell
Honeywell
There are approximately 4 million miles of pipelines spanning some 120 countries across the globe, carrying oil, gas and other potentially volatile liquids and gases. The pipelines cross deserts, oceans and some of the most inhospitable environments known to man. Honeywell have provided control systems for pipelines for over 30 years, and now we...

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...

Editorial: Safety, Reliability, Profitability – the main drivers of a good integrity management system

Editorial 3-2018
Editorial 3-2018
Pipelines are the veins of a worldwide energy system, serving industry and clients with all kinds of liquids and hazardous fluids and gases. In the 1920s to 1950s they have been built with a commercial lifetime of 25 to 30 years, but today some of the systems are reaching their 100 years of operation anniversary. The main bulk of high pressure...