Oil, Gas and Chemicals - Pipeline integrity management

Installation problems and rectification/Single client projects/Case studies

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Single Client Projects (SCPs)

To respect confidentiality, generic titles of selected projects are given below:

Fatigue evaluation of girth welds
Re-evaluation of fatigue curves for flush ground girth welds
Assessment of girth welds for S-lay
Engineering critical assessment of pipeline girth welds
Engineering critical assessment of pipeline with repair grooves
Engineering critical assessment of lay barge girth welds
Risk analysis of flowline cracking
Re-use of flowlines by re-reeling
Fitness for purpose analysis of Aleyaska pipeline
Engineering critical assessment of damaged pipelines
Third party assessment of pipeline welds
Materials testing and engineering critical assessment of reeled and S-lay pipeline girth welds

Full list of upstream / downstream single client projects

Case studies

These case studies were written in collaboration with the customer concerned.

Full list of upstream / downstream case studies