CALIFORNIA PIPELINE INTEGRITY WEEK | LONG BEACH
June 2-5, 2025 | Long Beach, CA

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ADVANCED PIPELINE INSPECTION & ASSESSMENT: METHOD SELECTION
INTEGRATION & IMPLEMENTATION | JUNE 2-3

COURSE SCHEDULE (both days)

7.30: Registration, breakfast, coffee
8.00 - 5.00: Course
It will be necessary to bring a laptop to this course.

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COURSE OUTLINE

There are really only three methods to monitor, detect and manage time dependent threats (EAC's, Internal and External Corrosion) along onshore, buried sections of line pipe steels. They are commonly known in the industry as the following:

Direct Assessment (DA), including investigative excavations (Direct Examination -DEx).
In-line inspection techniques and varying technologies with verification by investigative excavations (DEx). In-line inspection techniques presently require the completion of an excavation (DEx) to confirm the presence and severity of the threat.
Hydrostatic testing. Hydrostatic testing is the only known method to eliminate existing injurious axial flaws from a pipeline.

CONTENT AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This two-day course is separated into the following sections based on ILI and DA (independently or combined) and related data integration and documentation from excavations, visual inspection of pipe conditions and applied NDE techniques:

Discussion on the selection of DA and/or ILI tool technologies
Integration and detection capabilities
Understanding DA and in direct survey tool specifications
Understanding ILI Tool Specifications
Introduction into NDE technologies and the application of such technologies on the various anomalies found on a pipeline.
Understanding ILI Analysis for Excavation Purposes (i.e. Signal to Signal vs clustering)
Understanding DA data integration

Continuous survey – traditional and non-traditional techniques
Integration of multiple data sources and predictive outcomes

Generalized Excavation Process Reporting / Documentation Required for Excavation Correlation (ILI and DA)

Site Selection experiences
Obtaining and validating the correct location
Correlation of ILI /DA data inputs with Field Findings
Pipe preparation for NDE
NDE inspection methodologies – existing and emerging
ILI and DA NDE method and related tolerance
Technician tolerance for ILI
Technician decision making for DA direct examination findings
Report documentation of Target Joint and Target Anomaly
Report documentation of Secondary/Associated Anomalies (i.e., manufacturing stable threats)
Validating ILI /DA Findings
How to leverage the data system wide
Review of Remediation Options
Review of documentation for record keeping purposes – systematic and consistent

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS

Upon completion of the course, participants will be awarded 1.4 CEUs.

COURSE DOCUMENTATION

Complete course presentation material will be available as a PDF download prior to the course.

INSTRUCTORS

Jim Marr is President of Marr Associates Pipeline Integrity Ltd. Marr Associates has been in the pipeline integrity business since 1986. He was the SCC Program Planning Manager for TC Energy from late 2008 to 2016. Jim has worked in pipeline integrity for the past 37 years, focusing on SCC, external corrosion, direct assessment, direct examination, ILI development and correlation, data management and integration and the characterization of the environment around the pipeline. 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.

Rick Desaulniers is currently Principal Technical Advisor, ILI for Entegra. Rick has been in the ILI Data Analysis/Pipeline Integrity world since 1988. He has held manager and director positions in current and past ILI companies. Past experiences have put Rick in unique situations, a reviewer of the first POF (Pipeline Operators Forum) edition of the Specifications and Requirements for ILI of Pipelines (1995), committee member for the development of ANSI/ASNT ILI-PQ, API1163 and API1183 documents. He graduated with a BSc degree in Geology in 1988 from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.