Lecturers
Defect Assessment in Pipelines
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.
Pipeline Repair Methods/InService Welding Course
Bill Bruce is director of welding technology with CC Technologies. Prior to joining CCT, he was a technology leader at Edison Welding Institute and a senior engineer at Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. He is a member of the American Petroleum Institute API 1104 Committee and is the chairman of the Maintenance Welding Subcommittee.
Risk-Based Management of Pipeline Integrity and Safety
Prof. Sviatoslav Timashev, Ph.D., has more than 25 years’ experience in pipeline reliability (including human factors), remnant life, diagnostics, maintenance, integrity, quantitative risk analysis, safety and security. Much of his work has been for (among other clients) the Russian oil and gas majors Gazprom and Transneft. Prof. Timashev has authored and co-authored 21 books and more than 300 technical papers on the reliability, integrity, diagnostics, maintenance, remnant life, safety and security of large distributed systems such as pipelines. An internationally recognized expert, he has lectured worldwide, including the USA, Russia, Italy, China, Australia, South Africa, Austria, and The Netherlands. Professional memberships include Charter membership in the International Association on Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR); the ASME Pipeline Systems Division Technical Committees on Operation & Maintenance and Risk & Reliability; the API 1163 ILI Qualification Standard Work Group; and the Interstate (CIS) Science & Engineering Council on High-Reliability Transmission Pipelines. Prof. Timashev also serves on the editorial boards of several industry and professional journals, including Structural Safety, Condition Monitoring & Diagnostics Engineering Management (COMADEM), Control & Diagnostics, and the Journal of Pipeline Integrity. He is currently director of the Science and Engineering Centre at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Ekaterinburg.
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