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Course Instructors
Defect Assesment in Pipelines
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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.
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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 & Applied NDE for ILI/DA Validation and Correlation
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Jim Marr is currently SCC Program Manager for TransCanada Pipelines. Previously, he was 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.
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James Pennie is an advanced NDT consultant with Eclipse Scientific Inc. With offices in Waterloo, Ontario and Edmonton, Alberta, Eclipse Scientific develops specialized products and techniques for the NDT industry, specifically in the advanced ultrasonic (UT) discipline. James has been in the Non Destructive Testing industry for 10 years, and has spent that time working within pipeline integrity field, with his initial involvement working with Marr Associates. While at Marr Associates as a project manager, James was responsible for field activities which included SCCDA, ECDA, ICDA, and ILI correlation programs. James now provides Advanced UT Expertise to clients worldwide, to assist with implementation of new technologies, training of personnel, and procedure and technique development for both the onshore and offshore industry.
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Rick Desaulniers is currently Line Product Manager (Analysis) with Baker Hughes Management Group. He has been involved in the pipeline industry for the past 20 years in the Data Interpretation Department analyzing 1000’s of miles of pipelines around the world, specifically in Magnetic Flux Leakage type tools. He has been involved in past NACE conference as Chairman of the Pipeline Integrity Symposium and presented/co-write papers on Excavation Data Collection and Data Analyst Qualification Processes. He was on the Standards Development Committee for ANSI/ASNT ILI-PQ-2005 In-Line Inspection Personnel Qualification and Certification Standard. He received his Bachelor of Science in Geology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Optimizing ILI Inspection Scheduling
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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 Mapping, GIS and Data Integration
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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 & Inline Inspection
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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.
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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.
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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.
Pipeline Repair Methods/In-Service Welding
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Bill Bruce is director of welding technology with DNV Columbus (formerly 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.
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Dr. Chris Alexander is a Principal at Stress Engineering Services, Inc. In
terms of pipeline work, He has been integrally involved in assessing the
effects of dents and mechanical damage on the structural integrity of
pipelines. These efforts have involved full-scale burst and cyclic
pressure fatigue testing, as well as modeling dents using finite element
analysis. Dr. Alexander has also been involved in assessing the use of
composites in repairing pipelines and offshore risers. He has published
more than 50 technical papers and has made international presentations
on a wide range of topics.
He has received B.S. M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering
from Texas A&M University.
Stress Corrosion Cracking in Pipelines
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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.
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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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