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Watch the video on www.dnvsoftware.com/PI Complete solutions • Most user friendly • Most value for money • Professional service PI_VM_PIPELINE_MRKT_12-01.indd 1 10/16/12 11:19 AM contents t e c h n i c a l 26 34 46 JOURNAL OF REGULARS pipELinE EqUipmEnt – pipelayERS And 6 From the Editor SidEboomS 16 World wrap 33 Increasing safety and efficiency: the sideboom arm issue 14 | December 2012 18 Project briefs PIPELINE 34 Utility applications on a pipeline 63 Event calendar jobsite 64 Advertisers’ index ENGINEERING UnitEd kinGdom 64 Coming in future issues RiSk assessmEnt (Editorial and Technical) 36 Pipeline risk assessment: risk profiling PO Box 21 ARoUnd thE woRLd Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1NS UK 8 Green light for Tioga indUStRy nEwS Tel: +44 1494 675139 | Fax: +44 1494 670155 Revitalising in-service capacity 10 EPC contract awarded for Zubair oil 38 39 Supporting long-line communications TORONTO field (Editorial) 12 Uganda weighs in on South Sudan – 40 Pipeline failure consequence analysis: Tel: +1 416 551 9113 Kenya oil pipeline PipeTech shows the way 13 AGRI undertakes feasibility study 42 A global perspective on pipeline UnitEd StAtes geohazards (Sales) 14 Mangala pipeline closer to completion PARLOC re-launches database 16360 Park Ten Place, Suite 109, 15 CFE awards pipeline contract for 43 Houston, TX 77084 Mexico tERRAin REviEw If you are a pipeline engineer, United States of America The Journal of Pipeline Engineering 44 Working through permafrost: Tel: +1 832 314 2694 region REviEw pipelines in arctic terrain is a vital tool that will keep you 19 Harnessing rich resources: up-to-date on the latest technical AUStRALiA South East Asia pRojEctS research around the world. 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Enduro - The Thinking Man’s Pig 918-446-1934 • 800-752-1628 • www.pigprog.com from the eDitor he multi-million dollar international future editions of the survey will be pipeline pigging industry has enhanced by an independent panel of Tdeveloped to a high level of international technical experts who will sophistication, whether it be for mundane review the data and provide a ranking of the cleaning or batching tasks, or for high-level technologies concerned, and the companies corrosion-feature assessment and integrity providing them, under various headings. management. The range of fluids and gases A sample edition of the survey, without in which pigs can operate is ever increasing, the expert-panel review, will be published and the pipeline geometries and and distributed in time for the annual configurations through which these tools can Pipeline Pigging and Integrity Management pass and carry out their work – while Conference in Houston, to be held from maintaining full operational capacity – is 11–14 February 2013. The first full edition of ever expanding. Furthermore, new pigging the survey will be published in June, 2013, solutions for a wider and wider range of and it is planned to publish updated editions industry problems are continually being annually each February thereafter. Copies developed and brought into service. will be available either individually or by Editor-in-Chief: John Tiratsoo There is thus a vast amount of technology subscription, and subscribers will have Managing Editor: Lyndsie Mewett available concerning what can be achieved, access to the survey online throughout the Associate Editor: Sarah Paul what types of problems can be solved, and period of their subscription. Journalist: Odette Fleming what options of tool and equipment are Sales Manager: Tim Thompson available to suit these solutions. What is not Pigging training Senior Account Manager: David Marsh available is a single information source that As well as classroom-based training Sales Representative: David Entringer provides an overview of the industry and a courses designed to teach delegates about Creative Director: Michelle Cross technical summary of its capabilities, as well pigging and integrity management issues, Acting Design Manager: Bianca Botter as an independent analysis of its capacities to among others, Tiratsoo Technical and Clarion Senior Designers: Susie Monte fulfil its marketing statements. While the Technical Conferences organise a practical Katrina Rolfe industry’s major operator clients probably course on pipeline pigging. Using various test Designers: Venysia Kurniawan have such data to hand, and may even have loops in Brazil, the United States, and Europe, Benjamin Lazaro staff who’s task it is to keep this information the course – which has been developed by USA Manager: Luke Rowohlt updated, there are many operators and others Penspen – offers participants the opportunity Publications and globally who do not have the time or to witness actual pigging operations and Events Co-ordinator: Elizabeth Foster resources to maintain such information show how these should be carried out in a Publisher: Zelda Tupicoff themselves. The valued and annually- safe and efficient manner. published Pigging Products & Services The syllabus combines pigging runs