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Translating Data Analytics Into Operational Instructions, An Innovative Smartphone App To Support Pipe Fit-Up Efficiency

Translating Data Analytics Into Operational Instructions, An Innovative Smartphone App To Support Pipe Fit-Up Efficiency
Translating Data Analytics Into Operational Instructions, An Innovative Smartphone App To Support Pipe Fit-Up Efficiency
Digital tools are everywhere in today’s worl d. The Oil & Gas sector is known to be slow to adapt, however has already been embracing the digital change since several years. A wide range of initiatives and solutions have been developed, from big data and related analytics to augmented reality and internet of things. Digital tools aim to cover the...

Advanced Corrosion Growth Modeling In Pipelines For Repair Optimization

Advanced Corrosion Growth Modeling In Pipelines For Repair Optimization
Advanced Corrosion Growth Modeling In Pipelines For Repair Optimization
Saudi Aramco operates a massive network to enable its position as world leading hydrocarbon producer, approximately 371 downstream cross-country pipelines with 446-sections, totaling 23,878 kilometers as at January 2020. Typical pipelines range in diameter from 4-inches to 56-inches, the average length of the pipelines ranges from less than one...

Editorial: Proximity despite the distance

Editorial 5-2020
Editorial 5-2020
Dear readers, You’ll certainly be familiar with this: you’re talking to friends, chatting about everything from your private life to your work life, and everyone is talking about their experiences of their workplace from their own perspective: What characterises it, what has changed and what has not? I usually try to answer the question with an...

Pipeline Technology Journal 5/2020

Issue 5/2020 of ptj is the fifth issue of the Pipeline Technology Journal

On its 60 pages this issue will discuss several topics. From advanced corrosion growth modeling to the enhancement of stress corrosion screening. This issue contains 6 papers from different companies.

Pipeline Technology Journal 5/2020

System Reliability Improved Through Fast-track Force Main Replacement

System Reliability Improved Through Fast-track Force Main Replacement
System Reliability Improved Through Fast-track Force Main Replacement
The Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside (SAM) transports and treats wastewater from several coastal communities in San Mateo County, California. In the spring of 2017, one of SAM’s force mains, the Granada Force Main, experienced a series of ruptures that disrupted operations and negat ively impacted local beaches. Due to its p revious history of breaks...

Large Stand-Off Magnetometry (LSM) for Buried Pipeline Inspection - Experimental study: Influence of dent depth on residual magnetic signal

Large Stand-Off Magnetometry (LSM) for Buried Pipeline Inspection - Experimental study: Influence of dent depth on residual magnetic signal
Large Stand-Off Magnetometry (LSM) for Buried Pipeline Inspection - Experimental study: Influence of dent depth on residual magnetic signal
Dents are among the anomalies which may be a threat to safe operation of pipelines. Dents are characterized by plastic deformation, which causes changes in the magnetic properties of the ferromagnetic pipe wall. Skipper NDT, a company at the forefront of LSM technology, conducted trials to characterize changes in magnetic properties around dents...

Adapting oil & gas infrastructures to climate change

Adapting oil & gas infrastructures to climate change
Adapting oil & gas infrastructures to climate change
It is well known that natural disasters which are related to climate change (e.g. rising sea levels, heat stress, extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, landslides, water scarcity etc.) are rapidly increasing through last decades. Climate impacts not only show regional and seasonal patterns, but also differ between territorial settings...

Geo Augmented Visualisation for improving safe operations of Natural Gas Pipeline Network

Geo Augmented Visualisation for improving safe operations of Natural Gas Pipeline Network
Geo Augmented Visualisation for improving safe operations of Natural Gas Pipeline Network
A pipeline network is the most efficient and economical means of transporting hydrocarbons. Pipeline Operator’s objective is to operate and maintain pipeline network in such a way that it would continuously provide uninterrupted services to customers. Locating underground pipes and other infrastructure prior to excavation or repair has long been a...

A new parametric study based on the Proper General ized Decomposition for the evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of buried pipelines

A new parametric study based on the Proper General ized Decomposition for the evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of buried pipelines
A new parametric study based on the Proper General ized Decomposition for the evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of buried pipelines
Pipelines related to industrial supplies such as oil or gas are a key p art of modern development, so it is important to ensure their appropriate response to a seismic action. The same applies to drainage or water supply in contemporary cities. Structural analysis of pipelines is a well-estab lished topic in engineering practice. In this paper, we...

Machine Learning Approach to Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) for Securing Pipelines in Urban Areas

Machine Learning Approach to Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) for Securing Pipelines in Urban Areas
Machine Learning Approach to Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) for Securing Pipelines in Urban Areas
Third party interference is one of the leading causes of pipeline failures and accidents that create great risk for safety and environment, as well as revenue loss for the operators. Especially in urban areas unauthorized and uncoordinated infrastructure and construction works pose serious threat to liquid and gas pipelines. Effective detection of...

Friction Stir Welding of Steel for Pipeline Fabrication

Friction Stir Welding of Steel for Pipeline Fabrication
Friction Stir Welding of Steel for Pipeline Fabrication
Friction stir welding procedure development was initiated on steel grades S460 G2+M and S690QL1 in plate wall thicknesses of 10 and 15mm. To tackle the challenges of the high mechanical loads on the tool as well as its premature wear, a combination of preheating and optimized weld backing set-up was implemented. The inductive preheating allowed a...

Key cyber-security controls for reliable pipeline operation

Key cyber-security controls for reliable pipeline operation
Key cyber-security controls for reliable pipeline operation
Our corporate public IT domains (like siemens.com) are constantly under cyber-attacks since they are connected to the public internet network. In a 2015 survey of 314 organizations operating Industrial Control Systems (ICS) around the world, 34 percent of respondents indicated that their systems were breached more than twice in the last 12 months...

Europe´s Gas Supply Network: Key projects for trenchless methods and Pipe Express®

Europe´s Gas Supply Network: Key projects for trenchless methods and Pipe Express®
Europe´s Gas Supply Network: Key projects for trenchless methods and Pipe Express®
For the gas supply in Europe, a reliable pipeline network has the highest priority. Besides the construction of the main supply pipelines such as TurkStream and TAP, the fast and safe installation of the regional country-specific distribution networks like Eugal and Zeelink play a key role. Different points of view of all involved parties have to...

Editorial ptj 4-2020

ptj-4-2020 Editorial
ptj-4-2020 Editorial
Dear colleagues, You are holding in your hand the fourth and last issue of the Pipeline Technology Journal filled with papers of the 15th Pipeline Technology Conference. We were able to publish more than 40 papers of ptc 2020 in these special issues. EITEP as the publisher of ptj and organizer of ptc would like to take this opportunity to thank all...

Pipeline Technology Journal 4/2020

Issue 4/2020 of ptj is the last special edition for the ptc - Pipeline Technology Conference

For the fourth time the ptj will feature all papers from the Pipeline Technology Conference.

On its 88 pages this issue will discuss several topics. From key cyber-security controls for reliable pipeline operation to the improvement of system reliability through fast-track force main replacement. This issue contains 9 papers from different companies.

Pipeline Technology Journal 4/2020

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