Ask the Experts

With each issue of the journal, the "Ask the Experts" section focuses on a new topic of particular relevance to the pipeline industry. People from the international pipeline community are invited to send in their questions which will afterwards be answered publicly by selected experts from the respective field.

The focus topics are based on the main topics of the journal. The individual topics and the publication dates can be found in the editorial calendar. Promotion of each Ask the Experts will start roughly 4 weeks before the publication date.
We partner up with different companies from the pipeline industry for every topic the "Ask the Experts" section focuses on. The experts answering the pipeline community’s questions are nominated in close cooperation with the partners.
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Ask the experts - Your questions answered - Difficult to Inspect Pipelines
Ask the experts - Your questions answered - Difficult to Inspect Pipelines

[Ask the Experts] Your Questions about Difficult to Inspect Pipelines answered

Q1) All difficult to inspect lines require some openings to insert/ retrieve the tool. Creating that provision is challenging. Which method is most economical and provides optimized results?

Ask The Experts - Digital Transformation (© EITEP Institute)
Ask The Experts - Digital Transformation (© EITEP Institute)

[Ask the Experts] Your Questions about Digital Transformation answered

Q1) With the emergence of Data Centric ecosystems over the whole pipeline value chain (from pipe manufacturing to installation), how and when do you expect publication of standards regulating pipeline data format, storage and transfer?