Lecturers
Defect Assessment in Pipelines Course
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.
Direct Assessment Methods Course
Kurt Lawson is Vice President of CC Technologies Systems, Inc., a corrosion engineering and research firm specializing in corrosion, corrosion control methods, research, failure analysis, and cathodic protection monitoring, design and construction. He has more than 17 years of field experience in the corrosion testing and evaluation of buried structures, including reinforced soil structures, pilings, reinforced concrete structures, and cathodically protected tanks and pipelines. Work on these structures has covered a wide range of techniques including basic potential surveys, application of advanced AC and DC electrochemical methods, advanced potential surveys utilizing digital storage oscilloscopes, and complex finite element computer modeling of cathodic protection systems and their effectiveness.
Excavation Inspection, ILI and DA Correlation Course
Bob Simmons is the Pipeline Integrity Manager with Metalogic Inspection Services. With headquarters in Houston and Edmonton, Metalogic focuses on advanced inspection technology, software and procedures for pipeline excavations, ILI and DA correlation.
Bob has been in the Non Destructive Testing industry for 18 years, the last 14 of which have been focused on SCC, Corrosion, ERW and Mechanical anomaly verification and assessment on pipelines. Bob’s current focus is working with operators on
the development and implementation of excavation programs to ensure proper documentation and maximum correlation accuracies are achieved with ILI and DA techniques.
Risk-based Management of Pipeline Integrity and Safety Course
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.
Pigging and Inline Inspection Course
Gary Smith is president of Inline
Services, a Houston-based company specializing in pigging
equipment and services. He has 27 years experience in
the pipeline pigging industry, working in services such
as commissioning and maintenance of pipelines as well
as with designing and manufacturing pigging equipment.
Dr. Martin Phillips is a Senior Engineer with CC Technologies Services, Inc. He has more than 20 years experience with ILI and
pipeline integrity services, including management of multi-pipeline
inspection programs using different ILI tools and development of ILI
tools for metal loss and cracking.
George Williamson has 25 years of experience in pipeline and oil and gas field operations, maintenance, and engineering. He is a registered professional engineer.
Stress Corrosion Cracking Course
Dr. Raymond R. Fessler worked on the Pipeline Research Committee project on SCC since its inception in 1965. He personally conducted most of the early field investigations of SCC, from which he identified the major factors that cause high-pH SCC in pipelines. He also managed the laboratory portion of that program from 1965 to 1982, which added significantly to an understanding of the phenomenon and explored a number of possible solutions to the problem. For the past several years, he has been the SCC consultant for GRI and PRCI. He recently completed a comprehensive gap analysis on SCC, and he actively participated in drafting the NACE Recommended Practice on SCC Direct Assessment.
John Mackenzie is a senior pipeline specialist with Kiefner & Associates, focusing on the areas of Integrity Management Plans and Stress Corrosion Cracking. John was previously with TransCanada Pipelines for 25 years, where he was responsible for the company’s original investigation into SCC (1986-1990). This work led to the discovery of near-neutral pH SCC and identified the conditions under which it occurs. He also served as Chair of the PRCI’s SCC Subcommittee for two years.
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