Onshore Pipeline Engineering
May 12-16, 2008
 
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Lecturers
Professor Phil Hopkins has more than 26 years’ experience in pipeline engineering, and is Technical Director with Penspen Integrity and Visiting Professor of Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He has worked with most of the major oil and gas companies and pipeline companies around the world, providing consultancy on management, business, design, maintenance, inspection, risk analysis and safety, and failure investigations. He is the immediate past-chairman of the Executive Committee of the ASME Pipeline Systems Division and has served on many other professional committees, including the British Standards Institution, European Pipeline Research Group, the American Gas Association’s Pipeline Research Committee, and the DNV Pipeline Committee. More than 1700 engineers and technical personnel around the world have attended his Pipeline Defect Assessment and Pipeline Integrity-related courses. Dr. Roger King has over 30 years’ experience of corrosion in the oil, gas, civil, and nuclear industries. Dr King ran the premier microbiological corrosion group at UMIST for seven years; the group accumulated over 150 man-years of research into corrosion by micro-organisms. The group published over 100 theses, dissertations and papers on bacterial corrosion and its prevention and treatment. He also has specialist knowledge of sweet and sour corrosion and its prevention by chemical inhibition, monitoring of corrosion and the design of efficient cathodic-protection systems for flowlines, structures, and seabed installations. He has been an independent consultant since September, 1989, and prior to this was a founder member of the Corrosion and Protection Centre Industrial Service (CAPCIS) at the University of Manchester, UK.
Tom Miesner is president of Miesner, LLC, a consulting company focused on improving the safety, supply reliability, and efficiency of the pipeline industry. He spent 25 years with Conoco Pipe Line Company, where he held multiple engineering, operations, joint-venture, business development, and executive positions, serving for six years as President. Tom is a past chairman of AOPL and has also been active in the API’s Pipeline Committee. He has worked extensively with FERC in areas of liquid pipeline rate matters and is the author of the popular book Oil and Gas Pipelines in Non-Technical Language [click here for details] and co-author of the PRCI report The Role of Energy Pipelines and Research in the United States.
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