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Editorial: Molecules & Megabytes
Pipelines form the backbone of many countries of the world – quietly transporting ty that fuels modern life. Yet, as the world advances in decarbonisation efforts, these established assets may need to accommodate alternative energy carriers. While they were designed to transport either oil or gas their future might lie in the transportation of…
Bridging the Gap Between Oil Pipeline Decommissioning Regulations and Implementation in Nigeria - A Focus on Niger Delta
Nigeria faces environmental and safety risks due to poorly implemented decommissioning of aging oil pipelines. This study addresses critical gaps in technical practices and regulatory enforcement by developing an integrated implementation strategy for Nigeria. Systematic failures were revealed by combining field surveys, laboratory analysis. The…
Cutting Methane Emissions Without Compromising Safety: Preparing LDAR for a Hydrogen Future
The global oil and gas industry is at a pivotal point in its development. Climate imperatives, regulatory scrutiny, and technological advances are forcing a re-evaluation of long-established operational practices. At the core of this shift lies methane, the primary component of natural gas, which remains both a critical commodity and a major…
Digital Innovation and Evidence of Resilience - Pipeline Operation Benefits of a Digital Twin
The new challenges of our time, from climate change and infrastructure renewal to sabotage and external threats, require precautionary measures and process support in the event of damage. European legislation has already taken action and expects activities from operators of critical infrastructures. For this purpose, risk analysis / risk…
Digitization of Aging Pipelines to Ensure Safety and Reliability using Digital and IIoT Technologies
Digitization of Aging Pipelines to Ensure Safety and Reliability using Digital and IIoT Technologies
Hydrocarbon energy remains essential to the global economy, with pipelines being the most efficient way to transport these resources. However, rising demand, aging infrastructure, and shifting operational conditions increase the risk of failures that can disrupt supply chains. To ensure reliability, proactive risk management is crucial.…
EMAT-C Ultra Technology for Baseline Crack Inspection in Hydrogen Pipelines
The progressing energy transition and a fast buildup of the hydrogen pipeline backbone will play a major role in achieving net zero targets. The conversion of existing pipelines for the transport of hydrogen will play a key role in achieving the targets, which introduces new challenges for pipeline owners and operators. Pipeline repurposing…
Minimum Wall Thickness for Supercritical CO2 Pipeline
Determining the minimum wall thickness for supercritical CO₂ pipelines requires consideration of multiple factors: internal design pressure, ductile fracture arrest, and dynamic pressure surges. While the design thickness for internal pressure can be readily calculated using ASME B31.4, the impacts of ductile fracture and surge pressures (similar…
Modeling the Fracture Resistance of Line Pipe Steels for the Transport of Dense-Phase Carbon Dioxide
Modeling the Fracture Resistance of Line Pipe Steels for the Transport of Dense-Phase Carbon Dioxide
When designing pipelines for transporting CO2 in dense-phase, the complex decom-pression behavior places high demands on the material toughness. However, due to the small number of full-scale burst test results in CO2 available to date that addition-ally encompass only a narrow envelope of geometries and material properties, it is difficult to…
ptj - My Pipeline Heroes - Brunel & Professor Robert William Ernest Shannon
Before introducing my pipeline heroe, I must first acknowledge my wider engineering inspiration: Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Celebrated for his groundbreaking work on dockyards and his pioneering steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic vessels, Brunel transformed Britain’s infrastructure. His bridges and tunnels still serve the…
Telluric Effects on Cathodic Protection System of Cross-Country Pipeline – Analysis of Pipeline A
Cathodic Protection (CP) systems are essential to mitigate corrosion in buried pipelines; however, naturally occurring telluric currents induced by geomagnetic disturbances can significantly impact CP performance. This study presents an analysis of PSP fluctuations along an approximately 200 km section of Pipeline A traversing Gujarat and Madhya…
Editorial: Selamat datang!
This year marks a significant milestone for the pipeline community with the inaugural Pipeline Technology Conference Asia (ptc Asia), taking place from 11–13 November 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ptc Asia promises to be a landmark event, offering a new regional forum for Southeast Asia’s pipeline sector and fostering collaboration among…
An Innovative Approach for On-Bottom Stability Analysis of Subsea Pipelines to Optimize Stabilization Requirements
Submarine pipelines are externally concrete coated to ensure vertical and lateral stability on seabed without excessive movement. During operation and especially towards late life and beyond, concrete may be lost which must be compensated in the form of stabilization weights. The weight requirements are typically calculated based on concrete…
Development, Testing, and Deployment of a Self-Propelled Eddy Current Magnetic Flux Leakage In-line Inspection Tool
The Enbridge Gas (EG) Ontario network in Canada encompasses over 150,000 km of distribution pipelines and approximately 3,700 km of transmission pipelines. System-wide risk assessments indicate that external and internal corrosion, external interference, and geohazards are some of the most prevalent integrity hazards across the system.EG Ontario…
Historical Review & Recent Advancements of On-Line Real-Time Pipeline Leak Detection
The advancement of pipeline leak detection has been driven by safety, environmental, regulatory, and technological factors across oil, gas, chemical, and broader pipeline industries. This article reviews the historical progression and recent advancement of on-line real-time pipeline leak detection methods from simple pressure drop analysis, to…
Integrity Management Maintenance Program for Pipeline Valves
Pipeline operator ultimate mission is to transport hydrocarbons with the highest standards of safety, reliability, efficiency and environmental responsibility. This mission cannot be achieved without assuring integrity of valves. Failure of a valve in a hydrocarbon network may cause a reduction in availability and reliability of the entire…
Sensor Data Fusion on Small Sats and Airborne Platforms: How Next Gen Technology can help Pipeline and Asset Operators
Methane emissions from pipelines and other critical assets pose increasing regulatory, operational, and environmental challenges—particularly given the growing need for rapid, credible leak detection and quantification to meet global standards such as OGMP 2.0 and EU Fit-for-55. This paper introduces AIRMO’s integrated satellite and airborne…
Unlocking Value: CMI as a Cost‑Saving Complement to IMU ILI Strain Assessments
Pipeline curvature and displacement refer to the unintended movement of pipelines from their original positioning, often due to external forces such as soil erosion, seismic activity or landslides. These geo-hazards pose significant risks to the integrity and safety of pipeline systems, potentially leading to leaks, ruptures, and environmental…
Editorial: Safety & Monitoring
As widely recognized, climate change, particularly the rise in global average temperatures, has significantly impacted rainfall patterns, affecting both the amount and distribution of precipitation across various regions. This has led to a growing frequency of intense rainfall events and extreme weather phenomena, such as floods and landslides,…
An Efficient Measure to Mitigate the Response of High-Pressure Gas Pipelines Crossing Potentially Unstable Slopes
High-pressure gas pipelines often cross potentially unstable slopes under static and/or seismic conditions. Consequently, their structural integrity may be detrimentally affected by Permanent Ground Displacements (PGDs) due to landslides, leading to pipe failures. Since pipeline rerouting is often unfeasible due to various techno-economic…
Assesing the Reliability of Rainfall-Related Geohazard Predictions: Can we truly achieve Predictive Management?
Over the past decade, CENIT has strengthened its risk-informed approach to managing pipeline geohazards, focusing on early warnings for hydrometeorological threats. With a network of 90 monitoring sensors along pipeline rights-of-way, the system provides near-real-time data on rainfall and river levels, enabling proactive responses.By integrating…
Halide Brines on Duplex 2205: A Corrosion and Compatibility Investigation
The effect of chlorides on metal corrosion has been known for a long time, and continues to be extensively studied in order to adopt the best practices with regard to mitigation. The dominant type of corrosion in the presence of chlorides is pitting corrosion.Bromides on the other hand have not been extensively studied, and – after being proposed…
How to optimize Gas Pipeline Operations with Simulation Software and Artificial Intelligence
Natural gas has been a key energy source for over 200 years, supporting heating, the generation of electricity and manufacturing. While pipelines remain the safest transport method, maintaining gas operations to meet the varying demands of a wide range of customers has become increasingly complex.Access to scalable computing power enables rapid…
Rapid Response to Geohazard Threats in a Changing Climate
Most operators are aware of the threat that geohazards present to pipelines routed through hilly terrain or subsidence areas and those at river crossings. A range of management systems and tools is available to investigate and address these risks. Climate change is having an increasing but unpredictable impact on the development of pipeline…
Wear Monitoring of Slurry Rubber Hoses using RFID Technology
A novel wear monitoring concept using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been developed for assessing the condition of slurry rubber hoses. This concept involves embedding RFID tags inside the hose liner, correlating their unique identification numbers with tag location information, and tracking the presence or absence of the…
Editorial: Inspection & Integrity
Welcome to the first edition of the Pipeline Technology Journal (ptj) for 2025. As we begin this new year, our focus is on a core aspect of our industry: safety. Safety is both the foundation and driver for inspection and integrity management in our pipeline industry which aims to mitigate loss of containment (LOC) events.History is peppered with…