Onshore Pipeline Engineering Course
May 11-15, 2009
Houston, Texas

Course Schedule
Monday - Thursday: 8am to 5pm
Friday: 8am to 1pm

Day 1

Pipeline Engineering Basics (HOPKINS)

1. Introduction to Oil and Gas
2. Pipelines – their history
3. Are pipelines safe? Their safety record and types and causes of failures
4. Basic pipeline and material parameters

Coffee

Pipeline Materials Selection (KING)

1. Steels used for Line pipe
2. Compositional Limitations, Mechanical Properties, Grades
3. Fabrication of Line pipe – Seamless, Longitudinal Welded, ERW, Spiral
4. Toughness and Weldability
5. Improving Corrosion Resistance
6. Solid Corrosion Resistant Alloy Pipe
7. Internally Clad Pipe
8. New Materials

Lunch

Pipeline Design (HOPKINS)

1. Legislation and regulations
2. Development of pipeline design codes
3. Detailed design:
1. locating pipelines,
2. design pressures, stresses
3. design factors

Coffee

Pipeline Design – cont. (HOPKINS)

Day 2

Pipeline Welding (KING)

1. Basics of Welding
2. Types of Welding Processes
3. Effects on Line pipe of the Welding Process
4. Welding Procedures
5. Inspection of Welds

Coffee       

Pipeline Design - cont'd (Hopkins)

Other Pipeline Design Considerations

1. Valves
2. Bends
3. Crossings
4. Leak detection
5. etc.

Group Design Exercise Part 1

Lunch

Pipeline Routeing and Construction (HOPKINS)

1. Basics of routeing
2. Classification schemes
3. Easements and rights of way
4. Legislation and permits
5. Routeing methodologies
6. Pipeline construction

Internal Pipeline Corrosion (KING)

1. Why Pipes Corrode
2. Sweet Corrosion, Sour Corrosion, Microbiological Corrosion
3. Cracking Mechanisms
4. Calculating Corrosion Rates
5. Effect of Flow on Corrosion
6. Water Injection Pipelines

Day 3

Monitoring of Internal Pipeline Corrosion (KING)

1. Inhibition of Corrosion
2. Biocide Treatment of Pipelines
3. Monitoring Internal Corrosion
4. Supplementary Inspection Techniques

Pipeline Testing and Operation (HOPKINS)

1. Hydrostatic Testing
2. Operation
3. Inspection, maintenance and surveillance of operational pipelines

Lunch

Pipeline Equipment and Systems (MIESNER)

1. Equipment – pumps, compressors, motors, pressure control devices, SCADA, Instrumentation
2. Leak detection
3. Power systems optimization
   

Day 4

Pipeline Project Control (HOPKINS)

1. Management
2. Scheduling and resource planning
3. Execution
4. Contracting strategies

External Pipeline Corrosion and its Prevention (KING)

1. External Corrosion in Soils
2. Coatings and their Application
3. Field Joints
4. Interaction of Coatings and Cathodic Protection

Group Design Exercise Part 2

Cathodic Protection (KING)

1. How Cathodic Protection Works
2. Monitoring of CP at Test Points
3. Full Line Surveys with CIPS and Instant Off Surveys
4. Coating Surveys using Pearson and DCVG Techniques
5. Interference from Third Party Lines and DC/AC systems

Inspection Using Smart Pigs (HOPKINS)

1. The History of Internal Inspection
2. Why ‘Pig’?
3. Types of Pig
4. Intelligent (Smart) Pigs:
1. Metal loss (MFL, UT)
2. Geometry
3. Mapping
4. Crack detection
5. What do they find and how accurate are they?
6. Pigs versus Hydrotest

Day 5

Pipeline Engineers (HOPKINS)

Responsibilities, duties and ethical behavior

Pipeline Repair (HOPKINS)

1. Pipeline Defects
2. Pressure reductions prior to repair
3. Repair methods:
1. Grinding
2. Weld deposition
3. Sleeves
4. Clamps
5. Hot tapping
6. Composite wraps

Lunch

Pipeline Integrity Management (HOPKINS)

1. Risk and risk analysis
2. Integrity management methods:
1. API 1160
2. ASME B31.8S
3. Class tutorial – risk analysis of 3 pipelines

1.00 Close with Question and Answer Session (HOPKINS & KING)

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