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ISSUE 008 JUNE 2011 Offshore ODYSSEY Padding equipment Madgaz Pipeline Africa snapshot contents D EEP CONNECTIONS 14 28 36 REGULARS pIGGING 4 From the Editor 40 Pipeline pigging: where should you get 64 Advertisers’ Index your next tool? issUe 008 | JUne 2011 Subscription form 42 High-velocity pigging:testing Coming in future issues performance Inline AROUND THE WORLD industry news United KINGDOm Brazil takes on challenges of Pre-Salt 6 44 Teeing off with live pipeline (Editorial and Technical) 8 Tamazunchale Pipeline contractor PO Box 21 intervention selection underway Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1NS 46 Business marketing: the value of KUANTAN IGI: constructing a missing link in United Kingdom 10 advertising online Tel: +44 1494 675139 Europe’s gas supply chain Co2 pIpelines Fax: +44 1494 670155 12 Saudi Aramco contracts Saipem for 48 Innovative thinking: the pipeline United States pipeline expertise industry’s role in mitigating carbon (Sales) 14 New pipeline to feed China’s 11111 Katy Freeway, Suite 910 petrochemical industry emissions Houston, Texas 77079 16 Building the backbone of Nigeria’s mEET THE association United States of America Tel: +1 713 973 5773 energy infrastructure 50 Recommending pipeline Fax: +1 713 973 5777 18 World Wrap excellence: EPRG 20 Project Briefs Australia TEcHNIcAL (Sales and Subscriptions) REGION REVIEW 52 An icy situation: discussing GPO Box 4967 22 Pipeline to prosperity: developing pipelines in the Arctic Melbourne, Victoria 3001 pipeline infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Australia pIpELINE REpAIR Africa Tel: +61 3 9248 5100 54 Advantages of steel sleeves over Fax: +61 3 9602 2708 pADDING EqUIpmENT composite materials for pipeline repair 26 Pipeline padding protection history [email protected] 29 Portable padding: ALLU 57 The NATO Pipeline: delivering fuel in www.pipelinesinternational.com lightens the load peace, crisis and conflict mEET THE cOmpANy pRODUcts AND SERVIces The publishers welcome editorial contributions from interested 30 Crude success: Enbridge parties. 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We make things happen. images you are providing permission for that material to be sub- 62 PIPE branch launches lecture series sequently used by GSP, whole or in part, edited or unchanged, OFFSHORE 63 Events calendar alone or in combination with other material in any publication 36 From the drawing board to the open or format in print or online or howsoever distributed, whether sea: the birth of a pipelay vessel produced by GSP and its agents and associates or another party to whom GSP has provided permission. PIPE COATING DIVISION Incident and Injury Free® 2 PiPelines international | JUne 2011 www.wascoenergy.com from the editor The skills crisis: can we wait? systematically passed on to successive One of the main points to arise from generations. While still being refined and THE NEW HEAVY-LIFT discussions at April’s Banff Pipeline Workshop developed, APIA’s initiative in this direction is in Canada was the burgeoning crisis presented of great significance to the global industry. by the age and experience gaps in the pipeline On this same theme, Pipelines industry, across the board and across the International is very pleased to report two CHAMPS FROM VOLVO globe. While it is easy – and even somewhat further initiatives that are being developed dismissive – to speak of ‘traditionalists’, with the same intentions. Northumbria ‘baby boomers’, and ‘generations X and Y’, University in the UK, in partnership with it is clear that there is growing concern that Penspen, is to commence a Postgraduate PIPELINE SOLUTIONS the engineering skills that have both created Certificate in Pipeline Integrity Management and maintain the high levels of integrity of in September this year. The Certificate will be the world’s pipelines may not be transferred made up of four modules and, when awarded, to successive generations of engineers. This is will be accredited by the University; the by no means to demean the clear enthusiasm credits thus gained will equal one-third of for many of the generations X and Y who those required to obtain a Master’s degree in enter this interesting industry. It is rather that the subject. there is an increasing age gap (the phrase A unique feature of the Certificate course Editor-in-Chief: John Tiratsoo ‘silver tsunami’ was heard) between those is in how it will be presented. Classes will Associate Editor: Lyndsie Mewett who have the experience and those who need be delivered by a combination of distance Assistant Editor: Stephanie Chan it, and up to now the industry itself has not learning (via the University’s website), Product Manager: Scott Pearce managed to set up a process through which through residential classes, and through Journalists: Stephanie Clancy this experience can be handed on. public training courses delivered by Penspen. Melanie Ryan Writing in 2008, Professor Phil Hopkins Students will be able to select which of these Sales Manager: Tim Thompson of the United Kingdom’s Newcastle University options, singly or in combination, they wish Senior Account Manager: David Marsh (and Penspen Integrity), pointed out some to follow. The first module to be delivered will Sales Representative: David Entringer salient facts on this issue, including: be on pipeline integrity assessment, followed Creative Director: Michelle Cross • UK Government figures show that the by a further three modules covering onshore Senior Designer: Lela Sablic number of school leavers will decline by pipeline engineering, risk management of Designers: Venysia Kurniawan 16 per cent by 2018, so all industries will pipelines, and materials and corrosion. Benjamin Lazaro be short of local employee ‘feedstock’. This scheme will clearly provide a great Susie Monte • 29 per cent of all engineering graduates in opportunity for learning, and for those Publisher: Chris Bland the UK leave university to join the finance/ involved to obtain a serious, realistic, and commercial sector, not engineering. recognised qualification in this industry. • The number of registered engineers [in The scheme is not a substitute for the the UK] has fallen by 21,500 in the past hands-on experience that all engineers decade. necessarily need, but will complement such As Prof Hopkins says, a shortage of good experience gained through the job site. Many engineers will create an unsafe environment of the lecturers involved are senior pipeline in the oil and gas business, and this means engineers with a range of core disciplines and that lives will be lost. “It is worth noting,” experience. he continues, “that engineers cannot make In a further initiative, Pipelines mistakes: the cost is too high. Can you International understands that the ASME imagine if engineers had made the same is discussing setting-up a ‘road map’ for Cover shows the Seven naïve, short-sighted mistakes that our bankers pipeline engineering certifications in order to Oceans pipelay vessel and financial ‘experts’ made leading up to this support long-term skills’ development in the ISSUE 008 JUNE 2011 straightener. Image [2008] year’s ‘credit crunch’? If we engineers industry. ASME’s Pipeline Systems Division Volvo Construction Equipment has rewritten the book courtesy of Huisman. Offshore had made mistakes on this scale in the oil and is looking at the establishment of a formal, on pipelayers. Our new line provides massive lift capacity, ODYSSEY gas industry, we would all be in jail. The skills competency-based testing and experienced- with tipping loads up to 110 t; the control to handle shortage crisis in the oil and gas business based certification for pipeline engineering precision work, an easy-to-use load management system, is real: it has now moved on from a ‘people’ and pipeline integrity engineering in order to fi xed-raised or elevating cab and, on the largest model, the ability to issue in companies, to a strategic issue. A assist operators, regulators and individuals Padding equipment Madgaz Pipeline solution needs to be found today – we cannot in effective knowledge transfer. This subject self-disassemble and re assemble for easy transport. Volvo pipelayers Africa snapshot wait.” was discussed in general terms at the Banff have the stability, safety, power and performance to raise the bar – ISSN: 1837-1167 These comments are equally relevant workshop mentioned above, and we hope to and your profi ts. Along with articulated haulers, excavators, trucks, three years later, and up to now, little has be able to report upon it in more detail in wheel loaders and graders, Volvo is your complete pipeline solution. been achieved to address the problem, with due course. the major and creditable exception of the www.volvoce.com Australian Pipeline Industry Association (APIA). APIA has worked hard to set up a clearly-defined competency-based process John Tiratsoo through which engineering skills can be Editor-in-Chief 4 PiPelines international | JUne 2011 volvo construction equipment ADVERT_EXC_A4_EN_2010-08_Pipelayers.indd 1 09.02.11 15:43 aroUnd the world Off the beaten track! Brazil takes on challenges of Pre-Salt Brazil’s state-owned petroleum company Petrobras has awarded Saipem a contract to install two export pipelines in the country’s pre-salt region, located in the Atlantic Ocean.