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Lecturers

The Pipeline Pigging Course

Joseph Caldwell is president of Caldwell & Associates, a leading pipeline industry consultancy specializing in safety and regulatory affairs. He is a former head administrator of the US Office of Pipeline Safety.
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.
Gary Smith is president of Inline Services, a Houston-based company specializing in pigging equipment and services. He has 26 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.
George Williamson is currently the Manager of DOT Regulatory Compliance for BP America's Onshore Business Unit. He oversees the compliance program for approximately 12,000 miles of buried piping. George has over 20 years of O&M and Integrity Management experience. He is a registered professional engineer, NACE certified corrosion and cathodic protection specialist.

Defect Assesment in Pipelines

Professor Phil Hopkins has more than 24 years� experience in pipeline and marine engineering, and is Technical Director with Penspen Integrity. 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. Phil has served on many professional committees, including the British Standards Institution, European Pipeline Research Group, American Gas Association�s Pipeline Research Committee, ASME Pipeline Systems Executive Committee, and the DNV Pipeline Committee. He has extensive experience in both lecturing and training, and regularly presents on many aspects of pipeline engineering, training engineers all over the world.
Andrew Cosham has more than 10 years� experience in pipeline engineering, specializing in fracture mechanics and pipeline defect assessment. Andrew is currently a Consultant with Penspen Integrity.

Pipeline Repair Methods/InService Welding Course

William A. Bruce is a Lead Engineer in the Materials Section at Edison Welding Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Before joining EWI in 1988, he was a Senior Engineer at Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company. He has been involved in pipeline welding research continuously since his graduation from The Ohio State University in 1981. During his tenure at EWI, he spent a four-month secondment at TWI in Cambridge England. His areas of interests include repair welding, inspection techniques, and failure analysis. He has carried out numerous projects pertaining to safety and integrity aspects of repair and modification of in-service pipelines by welding. He also pioneered the use of lasers for mapping corrosion damage on exposed pipelines. He is an American Welding Society representative on the American Petroleum Institute API 1104 Committee and is the chairman of the Maintenance Welding Subcommittee. He is also a member of the AWS D10 committee. In 1995, he received the Airco Award, for "...innovation in the application of welding and cutting techniques..." from AWS. In 2002, he received a PRCI Distinguished Researcher Award from Pipeline Research Council International. He holds a B.S. degree in Welding Engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer and an IIW International Welding Engineer.
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.

Direct Assessment Methods for Pipeline Integrity

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 15 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.

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