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Construction Gets Underway on the Trans Adriatic Pipeline Project ISSUE 28 | JUNE 2016 Cover story: Construction gets Natural gas Flexible pipeline underway on the Trans Adriatic and investment integrity Pipeline project. opportunities in Iran management Page 38 Page 18 Page 26 EVO SERIES 1.0 THE FUTURE OF ULTRASONIC ILI TECHNOLOGY HIGHEST PERFORMANCE AT MAXIMIZED FLEXIBILITY • No reduction of flow rate • Enhanced tool operation Up to four times faster inspection speed Shorter tool lengths • High performance crack and • Customization to your needs metal loss profiling Maximized ILI tool flexibility Up to four times higher axial resolution www.ndt-global.com Canada | Germany | Ireland | Malaysia | Mexico | Russia | Spain | UAE | UK | USA 017_16_NDT_EVO_Anzeige_3P_International_8.5x10.875in.indd 1 19.01.16 12:36 Pipeline Repair Composite Repairs and Prevention for External Corrosion, Mechanical Damage, Defects, Etc. 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North America (USA) 621 Lockhaven Drive, Houston, TX 77073 Tel: +1.281-590-8491 1 Fax: +1.281.590.9528 [email protected] United Kingdom 4A The Causeway, Godmanchester Cambs, PE29 2HA, England Tel: +44.1480.414.703 1 Fax: +44.1480.414.705 www.clockspring.com Clockspring_PINJune15_FP.indd 1 8/05/2015 9:10 am CONTENTS Issue 28 | June 2016 REGULARS Pigging From the editor 4 Robotic ILI of a Transco pipeline World wrap 6 in an urban area 32 News in brief 8 Case study: Leak-tight double block and bleed isolation on high pressure Events 58 CO pipelines 34 Advertisers’ index 60 2 Projects Interview Project report: Trans Adriatic Pipeline 38 Never stop learning 12 Risk Management Iran ILI vs Direct Assessment: New opportunities in the Iranian gulf 18 The risk management perspective 46 ISSUE 28 | JUNE 2016 Iran’s strategy for natural gas 22 Company news Flexible pipelines APS brings ILF to the world 48 Flexible pipe integrity management: searching for the Holy Grail 26 Events Flexible riser integrity forum Cover story: Construction gets Bahrain conference meets its targets underway on the Trans Adriatic 52 Pipeline project. Natural gas and investment Flexible pipeline comes to Brazil Page 38 opportunities in Iran integrity 28 management Page 18 Pipeline training in Colombia 56 Page 26 Upon closer inspection 30 Cursos de Capacitación en Colombia 57 Read Pipelines International on your device! To view the digital edition on your device, scan the QR code or go to pipelinesinternational.com United Kingdom (Editorial and Technical) | PO Box 21, Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1NS UK | Tel: +44 1494 675139 | Fax: +44 1494 670155 Australia (Sales and Subscriptions) | GPO Box 4967, Melbourne, Victoria 3001 Australia | Tel: +61 3 9248 5100 | Fax: +61 3 9602 2708 The publishers welcome editorial contributions from interested parties. However, the publishers do not accept responsibility for the content of these contributions and the views contained therein which will not necessarily be the views of the publishers. The publishers do not accept respon- sibility for any claims made by advertisers. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in writing, by providing editorial material to Great Southern Press (GSP), including text and images, you are providing permission for that material to be subsequently used by GSP, whole or in part, edited or unchanged, alone or in combination with other material in any publication or format in print or online or howsoever distributed, whether produced by GSP and its agents and associates or another party to whom GSP has provided permission. 2 | Pipelines International | June 2016 www.pipelinesinternational.com FROM THE EDITOR ublished in 2015, the Pipeline and Riser pipelines. These are split into 135 on operating Loss of Containment (PARLOC) report pipelines, four during commissioning or testing, Pis the preferred source of risk assessment and nine during pipe removal. data for generic loss-of-containment frequencies For the operating category, 85 incidents for offshore oil or gas pipelines and risers. This concerned steel pipelines and 50 concerned revision updates the previous report, PARLOC flexibles; for the commissioning and testing 2001, and presents data gathered for incidents category, there were two each for steel and flexible that occurred on pipelines and risers on the UK lines; and for the removal category, there were Continental Shelf (UKCS) during the 12-year seven steel line incidents and two flexible line period 2001-2012. The report is unique as it incidents. The predominant cause of a loss-of- provides the only source of such data. containment incident for steel pipelines is The data in this important study have been corrosion; however, for flexibles, there is a wide From the editor collected from leak incidents reported by the 23 range of causes and none predominate. pipeline operators involved to the UK’s Health Flexible risers, joining rigid steel pipelines on and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Department the seabed to floating production platforms of Editor-in-Chief John Tiratsoo of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), as well one type or another, are highly critical Managing Editor Tori McLennon as from a questionnaire survey of the operators. components in an offshore pipeline network, and Assistant Editor Annie Ferguson Data on the population of pipelines and risers – by the very virtue of their flexibility – are less Sales Manager David Marsh on the UKCS have been compiled from two main easily inspected than their rigid counterparts. Sales Representative Megan Lehn sources: a commercial pipelines database Their continuing integrity is consequently less Head of Design Katrina Rolfe developed by Infield Systems Ltd and a database easily assured, and this is increasingly recognised Publishers Zelda Tupicoff, compiled by Oil & Gas UK. The former has been as an issue that needs expertise and investment in Lyndsie Clark used as the basis of the estimated populations of technology. steel and flexible pipelines, while the latter has As can be seen in an announcement on been used as the basis of the population of page 28 of this issue, Pipelines International is control umbilicals on the UKCS. pleased to be supporting the first conference on The report presents failure-frequency statistics flexible riser integrity management, being held in for generic types of offshore pipeline and control São Paulo, Brazil on 23-25 August. umbilical. In order for the estimated failure rates This issue also contains two important articles to be meaningful, considerable efforts have been on the subject: authors from MACAW made to ensure that the records of failures and Engineering describe how they are meeting the ISSUE 28 | JUNE 2016 the pipeline population, which are the basis of the current challenge for operators to develop and analysis, are complete and accurate, although implement robust and cost-effective integrity- inevitably there are some provisos involved. management strategies to maximise the value of The report shows that average loss-of- these critical assets (page 26); while authors Cover image: containment frequencies for steel and flexible from the Rosen Group give a case study of how a Cover story: Construction gets Natural gas Flexible pipeline TAP linepipe ready for underway on the Trans Adriatic and investment integrity opportunities in Iran management pipelines and risers has remained almost flexible risers can be inspected using a modified Pipeline project. Page 38 Page 18 Page 26 installation. © TAP unchanged in the 12-year period between the first ILI tool (page 30). study, in 2001, and the current one. The authors point out that while traversing a In an interview at the time of publication last flexible riser is not a problem for an MFL year, Brian Bain, one of the report’s authors, inspection tool, inspecting the wall thickness of a pointed out that “The fact that the two studies flexible riser using MFL is not possible because Like us on Facebook reached broadly similar conclusions gives some the internal stainless steel carcass comprises an www.facebook.com/PipelinesInternational reassurance in the validity of each. This is unmagnetisable interlocking layer. However, some reassuring, considering that the expectation may of the most-common inner-carcass defect Follow us on Twitter @Pipelines have been that frequencies would increase as scenarios can be inspected via ILI using tools such infrastructure aged. This shows that safety levels as the one described. have been consistent and maintained.” FREE Pipelines International e-newsletter The report gives a great amount of detail and The latest news, project and technology background information which can only be very information emailed fortnightly broadly summarised here. It shows that in the SUBSCRIBE NOW period examined, there were 148 loss-of- John Tiratsoo www.pipelinesinternational.com containment incidents in the offshore geographic Editor-in-Chief Remember to email your news, region concerned involving steel or flexible views and article ideas to [email protected] 4 | Pipelines International | June 2016 www.pipelinesinternational.com WORLD WRAP WORLD WRAP KOGAS to construct Iran to Oman pipeline NDT awarded Statoil ILI pipeline contract Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) is reportedly considering a project to construct a pipeline to transport natural gas from Iran to Oman. NDT Global has received a multi-million Euro contract from Statoil to develop an in-line inspection tool for the 707-km Åsgard Transport The pipeline would be approximately 400-km in length, with a 200-km onshore section between Rudan to Mobarak Mount in the southern gas pipeline. In close collaboration with Statoil, NDT Global is developing a suitable in-line inspection (ILI) tool for the Åsgard Transport gas Hormozgan province in Iran, and a 200-km offshore section onwards to Sohar Port in Oman. pipeline. The company will also supply the in-line inspection tool to perform the corresponding survey. Local news sources have reported that KOGAS could sign a memorandum of understanding or a framework agreement for the US$1.5 billion The Åsgard gas pipeline is part of the Norwegian gas infrastructure system, owned by the joint venture named Gassled.
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