Lecturers
Defect Assessment in Pipelines Course
Roland Palmer-Jones is a Consultant based in the Newcastle, UK office of Penspen Integrity. He has 15 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. For more than 11 years he has focused on pipeline structural integrity, initially with British Gas Research, and since 1997 with Andrew Palmer and Associates and Penspen Integrity. He has an excellent understanding of pipeline integrity issues having worked on numerous onshore and offshore pipeline integrity-related projects around the world. He is a visiting lecturer in the University of Newcastle Pipeline Engineering Masters course. His main areas of interest are pipeline defect assessment, pipeline repair methods, and the use of intelligent pig results. He has published numerous technical papers on subjects ranging from lateral buckling and low-cycle fatigue to risk-based integrity management. He has been delivering training courses in defect assessment since 2002.
Excavation Inspection, ILI and DA Correlation Course
Day 1 - Excavation Inspection
Jim Marr is currently technical integrity specialist with Baker Hughes Pipeline Management Group. He is also president of the pipeline consulting firm Marr Associates. He founded the original company in 1992 and was its president until late December 2002. In 2006, with the reforming of Marr Associates, two additional companies were developed to maintain Marr Associates’ tradition of providing comprehensive pipeline integrity field services such as modeling, direct examination, and project management. Jim has worked in pipeline integrity for the past 20 years, focusing on SCC, external corrosion, direct assessment, direct examination, ILI development and correlation, data management, and the characterization of the environment around the pipe. He has published numerous papers related to SCC, investigative procedures, and environmental relationships related to time-dependent pipeline threats. He graduated with a degree in earth sciences in 1986 from the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is a member of NACE and a past vice-chair of the NACE SCCDA committee.
Day 2 - OPIS Software Tutorial
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.
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.
Stress Corrosion Cracking in Pipelines 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.
Subsea Pipeline Engineering Course
Dr. Roger King has over 30 years’ experience of corrosion in the oil, gas, civil, and nuclear industries. Dr King ran the premier microbiological corrosion group at UMIST for seven years; the group accumulated over 150 man-years of research into corrosion by micro-organisms. The group published over 100 theses, dissertations and papers on bacterial corrosion and its prevention and treatment.
He also has specialist knowledge of sweet and sour corrosion and its prevention by chemical inhibition, monitoring of corrosion and the design of efficient cathodic-protection systems for flowlines, structures, and seabed installations. He has been an independent consultant since September, 1989, and prior to this was a founder member of the Corrosion and Protection Centre Industrial Service (CAPCIS) at the University of Manchester, UK.
Professor Andrew Palmer is currently Keppel Chair Professor in the Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He retired in 2005 as Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK. Professor Palmer is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and current chairman of the DNV Pipelines Committee. He is the author of three books and more than 180 published papers on pipeline engineering, structures and geotechnics, including the textbook Subsea Pipeline Engineering, which was co-authored with Dr. Roger King.
Professor Márcio Almeida is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at COPPE, Graduate School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His main areas of interest include embankment on soft clays, unsaturated soils, environmental geotechnics, and pipeline geotechnics. Prof. Almeida was head of the Civil Engineering Department at UFRJ from 1995 to 1997 and head of the Environmental Engineering Group from 1997 to 2000. He consults to industry extensively and has published more than 150 papers. In 1998 he received the Terzaghi Award from the Brazilian Society of Geotechnical Engineering.
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