Onshore Pipeline Engineering

November 1-5, 2010
Houston, Texas

Course Program

November 1-4, 2010
8am to 5pm  Course
November 5, 2010
8am to 12pm  Course

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:
    • API 1160
    • ASME B31.8S
  • 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

Organized by:

Clarion Technical Conferences

Tiratsoo Technical
Supported by: PIPE Pipelines International The Journal of Pipeline Engineering