Monitoring

In-pipe Ultrasonic Inspections of Mud and Tailing Lines: how to manage difficult to remove Scaling, provide quality and accurate Defect Assessments of steel and HDPE

In-pipe Ultrasonic Inspections of Mud and Tailing Lines: how to manage difficult to remove Scaling, provide quality and accurate Defect Assessments of steel and HDPE
In-pipe Ultrasonic Inspections of Mud and Tailing Lines: how to manage difficult to remove Scaling, provide quality and accurate Defect Assessments of steel and HDPE
Rio Tinto Yarwun Aluminium Refinery (RTY) is expanding its pipeline integrity assessment technologies. As part of this effort, RTY has been working with Intero Integrity Services (Intero) to introduce Intero’s Pipeline Surveyor services, a free-swimming pipe inspection tool. Rio Tinto is one of the world's largest mining companies, operating in 25...

Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Approaches with AI and Data Analytics for Pipelines

Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Approaches with AI and Data Analytics for Pipelines
Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Approaches with AI and Data Analytics for Pipelines
Effective monitoring and anomaly detection are fundamental prerequisites for safeguarding the efficiency, integrity and reliability of pipeline systems. Here, we explore both physics-based and machine-learning approaches for operational asset monitoring and anomaly detection, as well as evaluate their performance and appropriateness across a...

Toward AI Data-Driven Pipeline Monitoring Systems

Toward AI Data-Driven Pipeline Monitoring Systems
Toward AI Data-Driven Pipeline Monitoring Systems
This work focuses on the application of artificial intelligence methods to enhance pipeline monitoring systems, specifically Third-Party Interference (TPI) and leak detection. A critical aspect of pipeline monitoring revolves around determining the operational state of the pipeline. This is paramount because the processing algorithms are...

The Arrival Oil and Gas Pipeline Monitoring with Satellite-Based Hyperspectral Imaging

The Arrival Oil and Gas Pipeline Monitoring with Satellite-Based Hyperspectral Imaging
The Arrival Oil and Gas Pipeline Monitoring with Satellite-Based Hyperspectral Imaging
Hyperspectral imagery (HSI) began in the 1980s and has been used by the U.S. government for years, but it just recently became available for commercial use. This technology has a vast range of potential applications, with oil and gas pipeline monitoring being one of the most prominent examples. HSI enables unparalleled daily global pipeline leak...

Pipeline 3D-Positioning at river crossing: Long-Range Magnetic Mapping via Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)

Pipeline 3D-Positioning at river crossing: Long-Range Magnetic Mapping via Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
Pipeline 3D-Positioning at river crossing: Long-Range Magnetic Mapping via Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
Pipeline networks traverse modern societies' national territories and can be located in areas difficult to access, such as river crossings, making maintenance logistically challenging and potentially dangerous for field personnel. In order to resolve this problem, Skipper NDT has developed an unmanned aerial system (UAS) for magnetic mapping which...

Process Analytics secures the Quality of CO2 Pipeline Management

Process Analytics secures the Quality of CO2 Pipeline Management
Process Analytics secures the Quality of CO2 Pipeline Management
CO2 is a fundamental building block in the global decarbonization process. In order to successfully develop the individual processes for the separation of CO2 in the coming years, a reliable transport network, for example via pipelines, is a key issue. Here, process analytics plays an important role here to efficiently monitor and control the...

Digitalization of Pipeline Monitoring with Drones and AI at Thyssengas

Digitalization of Pipeline Monitoring with Drones and AI at Thyssengas
Digitalization of Pipeline Monitoring with Drones and AI at Thyssengas
Pipeline operators are obliged to regularly monitor their pipeline grid for potential third-party interferences (TPI). They need a reliable, cost-effective method to acquire and analyze aerial images of their pipeline in an automated process. This paper presents the concept of AIMI (Airborne Intelligent Monitoring of Infrastructures), a project...

Low-Cost Airborne Oil Leak and Threat Detection for Pipeline Right-of-Way

Low-Cost Airborne Oil Leak and Threat Detection for Pipeline Right-of-Way
Low-Cost Airborne Oil Leak and Threat Detection for Pipeline Right-of-Way
For years, pipeline operators have relied on human observers flying at low altitude to perform visual inspection of their ROW, without any automatic documentation or detection system. This paper presents the first real-life results of a test campaign performed by Flyscan Systems, integrating detection algorithms developed by Enbridge, over ROWs of...

The Influence of Anomaly Dimensions on POX for EMAT-C Crack Detection based on As Found Dig Results

The Influence of Anomaly Dimensions on POX for EMAT-C Crack Detection based on As Found Dig Results
The Influence of Anomaly Dimensions on POX for EMAT-C Crack Detection based on As Found Dig Results
In the context of repurposing of natural gas transmission pipelines to Hydrogen service the sensitivity of inspection systems with a focus on POX is frequently discussed. Often an increase of crack growth rate da/dN and a reduction in pipe steel toughness require a reduction of minimum remaining anomaly dimensions, in order to satisfy economically...

Integration of multiple Leak Detection Technologies into a single Advanced Leak Detection System

Integration of multiple Leak Detection Technologies into a single Advanced Leak Detection System
Integration of multiple Leak Detection Technologies into a single Advanced Leak Detection System
This work is centered on the integration of different Leak Detection Technologies into a single platform for a better management of Pipeline Integrity Monitoring issues. Leak detection methods covered in this paper are based on Advanced-Negative Pressure Wave, Mass-Balance, Acoustic-Noise, and other predictive techniques based on data processing...

Operational performance validation results for a satellite-based ROW monitoring solution

Orbital Eye
Orbital Eye
For the past decades, helicopter surveys have been the state-of-the-art solution for right-of-way (ROW) monitoring to protect pipelines from third-party-interferences (TPI’s). When TPI activities damage a pipeline, it can lead to disastrous events. Therefore, aerial inspection early-warning systems are used to mitigate these risks. Recent...

Using simulation to overcome operational challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

Atmos International
Atmos International
Atmos International (Atmos) is continuously working with the pipeline industry to develop solutions to overcome operational challenges. Atmos Simulation (SIM) Suite is an operational tool that users can trust to help operators run their pipelines safely, efficiently and with clarity and visibili ty. Atmos SIM Online, working in real-time, performs...