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Building a successful integrity team
Working across multiple companies, disciplines, and personality types can be a challenge. However, by focusing on clear and consistent communication, actively inviting feedback, building relationships, and documenting team knowledge as outlined above, you can build a high performing team that is up to the challenge – and most of the time, enjoys facing the challenge together.
Read the ArticleFive Key Ways to Protect Yourself from Pipeline Surge
Surge is a potential issue in liquid pipeline operation. It’s relatively rare in a line that’s operating normally, but as we’ll see, there can be serious consequences when it does happen. Fortunately, there are steps that pipeline operators can take to prevent surge from happening, to reduce the magnitude of the surges and to minimize risks and damage from surges.
Read the ArticleBack to basics – the benefits of cathodic protection
The response to cathodic protection (CP) varies from company to company and manager to manager. Some understand its importance and give it the time and funding it requires to be effective, but others don’t see much value in it at all.
Read the ArticleHow to manage fugitive emissions by reducing potential leak points
Our world is facing a growing need to reduce emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. As a result, the pipeline sector is facing increasing regulatory and public pressure to reduce its impacts through unplanned or fugitive emissions. Some pipeline operators also feel regulatory pressure to manage emissions to maintain their air quality permits, which are based partly on the number and type of fittings in a facility.
Read the ArticleWhat if your burst pressure calculation results don’t make sense?
It was supposed to be an uneventful second-round in-line inspection tool run through a liquids pipeline about 100 miles long. But it stopped being ordinary when analysis of the tool run data found 1,800 crack-like features that met burst pressure remediation criteria and were potentially hazardous to the integrity of the line.
Read the ArticleFive steps to get ready for that upcoming in-line inspection tool run
ILI inspections are essential for meeting regulatory guidelines, and are also essential for an operator to be able to understand threats that may have been previously unknown.
Read the ArticleNew Regulations for Gas Gathering Pipelines
With increasing demand for natural gas and the success of shale play hydraulic fracturing in the last decade and a half, production in some areas of the United States has surged. Gathering lines have followed suit, with dramatic growth in both mileage and pipe diameters
Read the ArticleFive key learnings about pipeline integrity from PPIM
Industry events like the recent Pipeline Pigging and Integrity Management (PPIM) conference in Houston are great places to identify trends and understand what the industry will be focusing on in the near future. HT Engineering sent a delegation to and hosted a trade show booth at PPIM 2022.
Read the ArticleHow 3D scanning technology prevents mistakes during piping replacements
Making mistakes can be embarrassing, but it’s how you respond to those mistakes that separates the ordinary from the excellent.
Read the ArticleSix keys to designing pipeline systems for winter realities
As the northern climes head into winter, it’s a good time to think of how to design pipeline systems for reliable service in cold temperatures. Even if changing weather patterns send warmer temperatures our way at times, unusually cold snaps may also become part of the “new normal.”
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