Pipeline Integrity Courses - Calgary
December 7-11, 2009

Defect Assessment in Pipelines

Professor Phil Hopkins has more than 30 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 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 1800 engineers and technical personnel around the world have attended his Pipeline Defect Assessment and Pipeline Integrity-related courses.

Pigging and In-line Inspection

Dr. Tom Bubenik is Director of Integrity Solutions at DNV Columbus (formerly CC Technologies). He has more than 20 years of experience in pipeline integrity assessments, in-line inspection tools and their capabilities, direct assessment techniques and methodologies, field data collection, and the impact of defects and inspection on pipeline operations and maintenance. Dr. Bubenik's research experience covers inspection technologies for pipelines, analysis tools for corroded and damaged pipelines, and repair techniques for pipelines. He also has extensive experience related to in-line inspection of natural gas pipelines including design and operation of inspection vehicles and analysis and interpretation of inspection data.

Alasdair Clyne is a consultant with DNV Energy (formerly CC Technologies) in Calgary. He is mainly involved in work associated with in-line inspection and integrity issues for clients based primarily in Canada and Latin America. Alasdair worked for British Gas R&D from 1980 through 1994, when he joined Pipeline Integrity International. He joined DNV/CCT after working in the UK, Argentina and Houston. Alasdair graduated in metallurgy from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and is a Senior Member of The Welding Institute and a UK Chartered engineer and a registered APEGGA engineer within Alberta.

Jeff Fleming is an ILI Coordinator with TransCanada Pipelines. He is responsible for the execution of ILI projects which encompass all aspects of pigging from utility tools to smart tools. Prior to joining TransCanada Jeff spent five years with BJ Pipeline Inspection Services heading up the group responsible for the fitness-for-purpose evaluation of ILI tool data.

George Williamson has over 22 years of Operations, maintenance and Integrity Management experience. He is a registered professional engineer, NACE certified corrosion and cathodic protection specialist, and certified pipeline integrity specialist.

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