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ISSUE 21 SEPTEMBER 2014 North America Piping to greener pastures EVENT EDITION Protecting your assets, preserving the beauty. Nature is our greatest asset. It needs to be preserved and protected as pipeline networks grow and operational effi ciency becomes a key requirement. NDT Global provides pipeline inspections with a top fi rst run success rate, superior data quality and rapid inspection report delivery to protect your assets and to preserve nature in all its wilderness and beauty. www.ndt-global.com Canada | Germany | Malaysia | Mexico | Russia | Singapore | Spain | U.A.E | USA 157_13_NDT_Ad_Sea_PipelinesInternational_8.5x10.875in_RZ.indd 1 04.08.14 16:20 Halfwave AS | Fjordveien 1 | NO-1363, Høvik | Norway | Phone: + 47 95 81 86 80 | Email: [email protected] www.halfwave.com Halfwave_PINMarch14_FP.indd 1 11/03/14 12:15 PM CONTENTS STATS GROUP Managing Pressure, Minimising Risk 14 43 57 REGULARS 54 The role of comparative performance 4 From the Editor analysis in pipeline operations 6 World wrap 56 Cortez Subsea secures patent for shallow- 72 Event calendar water pipelay technology ISSUE 21 | SEPTEMBER 2014 72 Advertisers’ index 57 OMS completes pipe services for Barzan Gas Project 72 Coming in future issues UNITED KINGDOM 58 Philanthropy from our pipeliners (Editorial and Technical) NORTH AMERICA REGION REVIEW PO Box 21 8 The Gulf Coast Pipeline System: a catalyst TECHNICAL Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1NS UK for American jobs and energy security 60 A fairy tale outcome Tel: +44 1494 675139 | Fax: +44 1494 670155 14 Preparing for IPCE 2014 63 Energy Pipelines CRC updates industry with latest research findings UNITED STATES 18 Major Canadian pipeline operators (Sales) 20 The next generation of Canada’s pipeline RISK MANAGEMENT Tel: +1 832 314 1694 industry 64 The outlook for pipeline risk assessment 24 Putting Canada’s pipeline industry on the AUSTRALIA EVENTS map (Sales and Subscriptions) 66 Hundreds gather for a topical ptc in Berlin 26 Acclaimed pipeline integrity training GPO Box 4967 68 Learn to fix pipeline problems from the Melbourne, Victoria 3001 Australia courses in Calgary industry’s best Tel: +61 3 9248 5100 | Fax: +61 3 9602 2708 28 PPIM 2015 70 Third “Unpiggable” Pipeline Solutions COATINGS Forum to be held in Houston 32 Design and mode of operation for advanced corrosion protection systems 38 Improved coating adhesion with BISEP™ | High Pressure Intervention & Isolation aluminium oxide [email protected] www.pipelinesinternational.com INTERVIEW 40 In conversation with Friedrich Hecker The publishers welcome editorial contributions from interested 43 Nord Stream’s technical mastermind parties. However, the publishers do not accept responsibility for the content of these contributions and the views contained INDUSTRY NEWS Pipeline intervention and isolation can be achieved using STATS patented leak-tight BISEP™. The BISEP™ therein which will not necessarily be the views of the publishers. 46 Relying on Russia: an overview of the The publishers do not accept responsibility for any claims made PIPELINES provides fail-safe double block and bleed isolation deployed through a single full bore hot tap penetration existing European pipeline industry by advertisers. INTERNATIONAL 48 Precision through sound for pipeline DIGITAL EDITION – no additional bleed ports. The BISEP™ contains dual energised seals and the annulus zero-energy zone Unless explicitly stated otherwise in writing, by providing edito- inspection rial material to Great Southern Press (GSP), including text and Fibreglass pipelines to enable efficient and AVAILABLE NOW images you are providing permission for that material to be subse- 50 proves and monitors the seal integrity before and during intervention work. quently used by GSP, whole or in part, edited or unchanged, alone economic onsite build or in combination with other material in any publication or format 51 Integrity for social licence in print or online or howsoever distributed, whether produced by Relieving stress: preventive riser GSP and its agents and associates or another party to whom GSP 52 pipelinesinternational.com has provided permission. maintenance offshore Malaysia www.statsgroup.com 2 PIPELINES INTERNATIONAL | SEPTEMBER 2014 FROM THE EDITOR here are several themes running particularly succinctly put in our interview through this issue of Pipelines with Friedrich Hecker, CEO of Rosen. TInternational that the diligent reader Mr Hecker expresses concern with the may well pick up, but which are important issues relating to globally ageing pipeline enough to use this column to draw readers’ infrastructure, and the provision of products attention toward. and services to ensure that the use of pipeline The first is Canada. Accompanying the assets can be optimised. Mr Hecker makes publication of this issue is our new map of the other very significant and cogent comments in Canadian pipeline network, which is made up our interview with him, which is worth of 21 major pipelines and many distribution reading in full on page 40. and gathering lines. Prepared with the The third theme is not a theme, but a assistance of Canada’s National Energy Board celebration of the ‘silly season’ that comes and the Canadian Energy Pipelines over the newspaper and media industries in Association, the map gives a rapid and useful the summer months (in the UK, at any rate). overview of the country’s approximately To a pedant such as the writer, the use of the 57,300 km main oil and gas pipeline network, word ‘pipeline’ in any context besides a Editor-in-Chief: John Tiratsoo and draws attention to the $US7.9 billion structure for transportation of fluids and gases Managing Editor: Lyndsie Clark value (in 2012) of this industry to the country, is anathema. Sadly, and regularly, as we all Associate Editor: Anna Tupicoff mainly as a result of resources in Alberta, know, the word finds its way into common Sales Manager: Tim Thompson Saskatchewan, and Ontario. language in places where no pipeline should Senior Account Manager: David Marsh One of the most significant industry ever appear, and this is particularly the case Sales Representative: David Entringer conferences takes place in Calgary in with newspaper article headlines. This misuse Creative Director: Michelle Cross September. The five-day biennial International is typified by headlines from two recent Acting Design Manager: Bianca Botter Pipeline Conference (IPC) is widely known and editions of the UK’s Guardian newspaper Events Manager: Luke Rowohlt respected, and our Canadian theme continues where we read of a somewhat uninviting Publisher: Zelda Tupicoff with a preview of the event and its hotel (‘Underwater hotel in the pipeline accompanying exhibition. Not only does IPC for North Korea’s ‘tourist city’), and from provide an enthralling overview of some of the the world of professional football, we read latest research and accomplishments of our (ungrammatically) of ‘Drogba set to bolster global industry, but it also provides an Chelsea’s options with coaching role in opportunity for new members of the industry pipeline’. (Maybe, however, just as The Horizontal Drill section of the Access to be enthused by what solutions and skilled ‘mathematics’ is often nowadays called ‘math’ ISSUE 21 SEPTEMBER 2014 Pipeline Northeast engineering can provide both in terms of by educationalists, this actually means that North America Expansion in Alberta, achievements and in terms of fascinating and Drogba will start coaching people in pipeline Piping to greener pastures Canada. Image courtesy of valuable careers. engineering, which certainly would be Access Pipeline. This leads to the final mention of Canada something for us to celebrate!) in this context – the Young Pipeliners But possibly the worst example, which set Association of Canada (YPAC). The Association our heart racing when we saw the recent email was formed in 2012, and now has over announcing it, is KPMG’s message that is EVENT EDITION 400 members. As its president Alina headed ‘Transport projects dominate UK Gabdrakhmanova points out on page 20, Government construction pipeline, says KPMG ISSN: 1837-1167 “This is a time of great opportunities and report. We really thought of a whole new immense challenges for young professionals, world of UK government-sponsored pipeline Follow us on Twitter and the aim of our organisation is to cultivate projects but, much to our disappointment, it is @Pipelines top talent within the industry through about nothing of the sort, as the report in retaining the knowledge base of retiring question focuses on proposals for new UK rail world-class pipeline experts, and providing and road schemes instead – the antithesis, in FREE Pipelines International networking and mentorship opportunities, as fact, of pipelines! e-newsletter well as to attract more workers by educating @ The latest news, events and job listings emailed fortnightly current and future graduates about the SUBSCRIBE NOW pipeline industry.” www.pipelinesinternational.com This leads conveniently to our second theme – training. The issues are well-known John Tiratsoo and increasingly well-articulated, but are Editor-in-Chief Remember to email your news, views and article ideas to [email protected] 4 PIPELINES INTERNATIONAL | SEPTEMBER 2014 WORLD WRAP WORLD WRAP Bredero Shaw to provide coating for South Stream Offshore Pipeline Petrofac secures Shah Deniz Stage II ShawCor’s pipe coating division, Bredero Shaw, has been awarded maintenance build contract 1,617 km Utica Marcellus Texas
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