Journale October 2013 ROSEN INSpEctION SOlutIONS Industry & Practice Research / Development / Technology Conferences / Seminars / Exhibitions • Reports about new • ILI for Nord Stream • Upcoming International technological developments • UT-Inline Inspection events 2014 • Personnel and administrative • Leak detection technologies • 1st International Pipeline developments • High Performance Polyurea Seminar Pipeline Week IPSW Pipe Coatings • Pipeline Technology • Biogas in the natural Conference ptc 2014 in Berlin Gas Grid ISSN 2196-4300 www.pipeline-journal.com 18 29 78 15 Content 2/2013 Industry & Practice 8 Work management solution to provide auditing acceptability TAP begins its land easement and acquisition (LEA) activities 12 for the 870 km long pipeline 13 Synodon completes realSens(tm) crude oil detection demonstration NDT Systems & Services opens Pipeline Inspection Data Analysis 14 Center in Mexico City Shah Deniz Consortium announces 25-year sales agreements 16 with european gas purchasers 17 Sunoco launches open season for Permian Express 2 Pipeline in Texas 18 A new brand new strategy for ROSEN 20 Rehabilitation of pipelines with flexible relining technology 21 New eLearning on pipeline leak detection for engineers 22 TDW and Centrica Storage sign pipeline services agreement 23 Pipeline integrity and leakage detection using the fTB 2505 monitoring system 21 16 62 88 Research / Development / Technology 24 Keynote - The Pipeline market from a European view 29 Inline Inspection for the Nord Stream Pipeline 35 UT-ILI and Fitness-for-Purpose analysis for severely internally corroded crude oil 44 Pipeline leak detection technologies and emergency shutdown protocols 62 Development and field experience with high performance polyurea pipe coatings-pipeline 78 Biogas in the natural gas grid as support for the change in energy policy, part 1 Conferences / Seminars / Exhibitions 86 International infrastructure and pipeline events 2014 87 Review of the 8th Pipeline Technology Conference 2013 in Hannover 88 First ptc seminar on ILI attended by 16 international participants 89 Review of the 1st International Pipeline Seminar Week (IPSW) in Hamburg 90 Partner from the Middle East strenghtning the Pipeline Technology Conference 2014 in Berlin Editorial Dear readers, Dear readers thank you for or simply mistaken damage responding to our appeal in sending caused by everyday activity as the us your results about development non-fulfillment of delivery and and reports about successful case transmission contracts. 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Yours sincerely, register now for your free subscription at: Follow us: facebook: @ http://www.pipeline-journal.com/ twitter: www.facebook.com/Pipeline. twitter.com/pipetechconf Technology.Conference 4 Editorial Pipeline technology journal - September 2013 Advisory Committee CHAIRMEN Dr. Klaus Ritter, President, EITEP Uwe Ringel, Managing Director, - Euro Institute for Information ONTRAS-VNG Gastransport and Technology Transfer MEMBERS Waleed Al-Shuaib, Manager Support Juan Arzuaga, Executive Secretary, Manfred Bast, Managing Director, GAS- Services Group (S&EK), Kuwait Oil IPLOCA CADE Gastransport Company (KOC) Arthur Braga, Special Advisor to the Uwe Breig, Member of the Executive Filippo Cinelli, Senior Marketing Manager, President of the Board, CTDUT - Pipe- Board / BU Utility Tunnelling , Her- GE Oil & Gas line Technology Center renknecht Hans-Joachim de la Camp, Head of Ricardo Dias de Souza, Oil Engineer - Jens Focke, Head of Sales & Marketing, Dept. Pipelines, Authorized Inspector, Senior Advisor, Petrobras / Transpetro GEOMAGIC TÜV SÜD Industrie Service Andreas Haskamp, Pipeline Joint Dr. Andreas Helget, Business Solutions Dr. Hans-Georg Hillenbrand, Director Sales, Venture Management, BP Europa SE Line Head for Pipelines, Siemens Europipe Jörg Himmerich, Managing Director Maximilian Hofmann, Managing Dr. Thomas Hüwener, Managing Director / Technical Expert, Dr.-Ing. Veenker Director, MAX STREICHER Technical Services, Open Grid Europe Ing.-ges. Mark David Iden, Director, Dirk Jedziny, Vice President - Head of Cliff Johnson, President, PRCI - Pipeline Charterford House Cluster Ruhr North, Infracor Research Council International Dr. Gerhard Knauf, Head of Div. Reinhold Krumnack, Div. Head, DVGW Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller-Kirchenbauer, Mech. Eng., Salzgitter Mannesmann - German Technical and Scientific Head of Dept. Gas Supply, TU Clausthal Forschung / Secretary General EPRG Association for Gas & Water Dr. Michael Neiser, Head of Strategic Frank Rathlev, Manager of Network Hermann Rosen, President, ROSEN Group Business Segment Infrastructure, TÜV Operations, Thyssengas NORD Systems Carlo Maria Spinelli, Technology MuhammadAli Trabulsi, former Gener- Tobias Walk, Director Instrumentation, Planner, eni gas & power al Manager Pipelines, Saudi Aramco Automation & Telecom/IT-Systems, ILF Consulting Engineers Conference Management Dennis Fandrich, Director Conferenc- es, EITEP - Euro Institute for Informa- tion and Technology Transfer Advisory Committee Pipeline technology journal - September 2013 5 Industry & Practice Duisburg, Germany KROHNE Academy online extends Edmonton, Canada with free eLearning couse dedi- Synodon Inc. announces that its cated to pipeline monitoring. realSensTM technology successfully ... Page 21 demonstrated its ability to detect hydrocarbon vapour plumes released from crude oil samples provided by one of its customers. ... Page 13 Texas, USA Stans, Switzerland TDW Offshore Services (TDW) ROSEN Group introduces its has signed an agreement to new brand strategy. offer pipeline isolation services ... Page 18 to UK’s gas storage company Centrica Storage (CSL) with SmartPlug tool. ... Page 22 Texas, USA Sunoco Pipeline L.P. will commence a binding open season for its Permian Express Mexico City, Mexico 2 pipeline. NDT Systems & Services ... Page 17 announces the opening of its Global Data Analysis Center in Mexico City. ... Page 14 6 Industry & Practice Pipeline technology journal - September 2013 Industry & Practice Leipzig, Germany GEOMAGIC extends IT-infrastructure with Berlin, Germany the new release of the work management Pipeline integrity and leakage detection Solution GeoNAM. using the fTB 2505 monitoring system. ... Page 8 ... Page 23 Cham, Germany Raedlinger Primus Line offers a trenchless relining technology that is characterized by light weight while having the material strength of a steel pipe. ...Page 20 Azerbaijan Shah Deniz Consortium announces 25-year sales agreements with european gas purchasers. ... Page 16 Albania / Greece TAP has authorized its contractors to start surveys for collecting detailed information on the landowners living along the pipeline corridor to complement the existing cadastral data. ... Page 12 Industry & Practice Pipeline technology journal - September 2013 7 Industry & Practice Work management solution to provide auditing acceptability Damages in the pipeline- and nuclear industry in the near past have shown that gaps in asset documentation and in operational processes record had not been transparent enough to avoid subsequent catastrophes. A more integrated approach is needed to allow reliable and continuous communication and data access. More and more operational Companies have implemented • Analysis and display of issues of maintenance and different information and measurement values from monitoring activities for complex billing systems to control daily in-line inspection runs facilities and pipelines are work, but normally none of (georeferenced features lists) outsourced to external providers these systems are open for and CP data, or plant/work managers working direct access for external staff • Budgeting numbers based remotely. In all cases, a delayed to update information needed on planned, done and process creates contradictory by the functionalities and accounted-for issues, as information about the actual processes listed to the right: well as commissioning and status and asset condition in technical approval at projects’ operational duties, commercial • Direct access to technical end, accounting and up-to-date information for field