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.
Optimizing ILI Inspection Scheduling
Guy Desjardins is president of Desjardins Integrity, a consulting firm in Calgary, AB. He has more than 25 years experience in the oil and gas industry and 12 years with pipelines. In 1997, he became a principal co-owner of Morrison Scientific and became Morrison’s president in 1998. He has been an independent consultant since 2005, offering services of data analysis, research, and software development.
Pigging and Inline Inspection
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.
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