Onshore Pipeline Engineering Course 
May 17-21, 2010
Houston, Texas
Course Schedule
Monday - Thursday: 8am to 5pm
Friday: 8am to 12pm
Day 1
8:00 – 9:45 Pipeline Engineering Basics (HOPKINS)
- Basics of Oil and Gas
- The Petroleum Industry
- Introduction to Pipelines
- Basic pipeline and material parameters
- Pipeline Safety
- History of Pipelines
Coffee
10:00 – 11:15 Pipeline Materials Selection (KING)
- Steels used for Line pipe
- Compositional Limitations, Mechanical Properties, Grades
- Fabrication of Line pipe – Seamless, Longitudinal Welded, ERW, Spiral
- Toughness and Weldability
- Improving Corrosion Resistance
- Solid Corrosion Resistant Alloy Pipe
- Internally Clad Pipe
- New Materials
Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 Pipeline Materials Selection – cont. (KING)
Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 Pipeline Materials Selection – cont. (KING)
Coffee
3:00 – 4:45 Pipeline Design (HOPKINS)
- Legislation and regulations
- Development of pipeline design codes
- Design Process
- Detailed design:
- product categorisation,
- locating pipelines,
- design pressures, factors, and stressing.
- Pipeline Crossings
- Pipeline Valves
Day 2
8:00 – 9:15 Other Pipeline Design Considerations (HOPKINS)
- Surges/overpressures
- Bends
- Pipe protection
- Fracture control
- Fluids and Hydraulics
Coffee
9:30 – 11:00 Pipeline Welding (KING)
- Basics of Welding
- Types of Welding Processes
- Effects on Line pipe of the Welding Process
- Welding Procedures
- Inspection of Welds
Coffee
11:15 – 12:45 Design Exercise Part 1
Lunch
1:45 – 3:15 Pipeline Routing and Construction (HOPKINS)
- Basics of routeing
- Classification schemes
- Easements and rights of way
- Legislation and permits
- Routeing methodologies
- Pipeline construction
Coffee
3:30 – 4:30 Internal Pipeline Corrosion (KING)
- Why Pipes Corrode
- Sweet Corrosion, Sour Corrosion, Microbiological Corrosion
- Cracking Mechanisms
- Calculating Corrosion Rates
- Effect of Flow on Corrosion
- Water Injection Pipelines
Day 3
8:00 – 9:30 Monitoring of Internal Pipeline Corrosion (KING)
- Inhibition of Corrosion
- Biocide Treatment of Pipelines
- Monitoring Internal Corrosion
- Supplementary Inspection Techniques
Coffee
9:45 – 10:45 Monitoring of Internal Pipeline Corrosion - cont’d (KING)
Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 Pipeline Testing, Operation, Inspection (Hopkins)
- Pressure Testing
- Batching
- Incorrect operation
- Control Systems, Leak Detection
- Inspection and monitoring of operational pipelines
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Pipeline Project Control (HOPKINS)
- Management
- Scheduling and resource planning
- Execution
- Contracting strategies
Coffee
2:15 – 3:30 External Pipeline Corrosion and its Prevention (KING)
- External Corrosion in Soils
- Coatings and their Application
- Field Joints
- Interaction of Coatings and Cathodic Protection
Coffee
3:45 – 5:00 Design Exercise Part 2
Day 4
8:00 – 9:15 Cathodic Protection (KING)
- How Cathodic Protection Works
- Monitoring of CP at Test Points
- Full Line Surveys with CIPS and Instant Off Surveys
- Coating Surveys using Pearson and DCVG Techniques
- Interference from Third Party Lines and DC/AC systems
Coffee
9:30 – 10:45 Cathodic Protection – cont’d (KING)
Coffee
11:00 – 12:15 Utility and Intelligent (Smart) Pig Inspection (HOPKINS)
- The History of Internal Inspection
- Why ‘Pig’?
- Types of Pig
- The History of Internal Inspection
- Why ‘Pig’?
- Types of Pig
- Intelligent (Smart) Pigs:
- Metal loss (MFL, UT)
- Geometry
- Mapping
- Crack detection
- What do they find and how accurate are they?
- Pigs versus Hydrotest
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Pipeline Equipment and Systems – (Miesner)
- Hydraulic tools
- Equipment – pumps, compressors, motors, pressure control devices
- SCADA
- Leak detection
Coffee
2:45 – 5:00 Pipeline Equipment and Systems – cont’d. (Miesner)
Day 5
8:00 – 8:45 Pipeline Engineers (HOPKINS)
- Responsibilities, duties and ethical behavior
8:45 – 10:00 Pipeline Repair (HOPKINS)
- Pipeline Defects
- Pressure reductions prior to repair
- Repair methods:
- Grinding
- Weld deposition
- Sleeves
- Clamps
- Hot tapping
- Composite wraps
Coffee
10:15 – 11:30 Pipeline Integrity Management (HOPKINS)
- Risk and risk analysis
- Integrity management methods:
- Class tutorial – risk analysis of 3 pipelines
Coffee
11:45 – 1:00 Pipeline Integrity Management – cont’d (HOPKINS)
1:00 Close with Question and Answer Session (HOPKINS & KING)
Lunch
