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
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.
Pipeline Mapping, GIS Systems and Data Integration Course
Nick Park has 12 years of software product management experience with more than six years specifically in the pipeline industry. As a Consultant and, most recently, Vice President of Technology for GeoFields Inc., Mr. Park is involved in the design and implementation of data management systems for complex pipeline operations, which are currently being used by thousands of individuals across a diverse client base. Mr. Park has an MS in Geographic Information Systems and continues to provide support to a range of mapping and GIS projects.
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.
Patrick Vieth is Sr. Vice President with CC Technologies. He has 18 years of experience working with pipeline operators to reduce the likelihood of failures through in-line inspection, hydrostatic testing, defect assessment, risk assessment, and fitness-for-purpose assessment.
George Williamson has 25 years of experience in pipeline and oil and gas field operations, maintenance, and engineering. He is a registered professional engineer.
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