OG90
Course Contents
Module 1 - Elements of Pipeline Design and Route Selection
Key Topics
- Pipeline Route Selection
- Class location
- Survey and Geotechnical aspects
- Codes and Standards
- Economics and Cost Estimate
Module 2 - Onshore Pipeline Design
Key Topics
- Pipeline Design
- Expansion and Flexibility
- Buoyancy Control
- Materials Selection and Quality Management
- Wall Thickness/Pipe Grade
- Flow Assurance
- Transient Flow in Liquid and Gas Pipelines
Module 3 - Fabrication and Construction
Key Topics
- Right way of Ditching
- Concrete Work
- Pipeline fabrication
- Pipe Laying
- Pipeline Pigging
- Pipe Lowering
- Pipeline Welding
- Main Standards for line pipe manufacturing and testing
- Crossings (Road, Highways, Minor Streams, and Utilities)
- Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)
Module 4 - Protection, Inspection and Testing of Pipelines
Key Topics
- External coatings
- Thermoplastic liners for oilfield pipelines
- Cathodic protection
- Inspection and monitoring
- Direct assessment
- Intelligent pigging
- Eddy’s current testing in pipeline inspection
- Non-destructive tests (NDT) and Nondestructive examination (NDE) techniques and technologies
- Ultrasonic monitoring of pipeline wall thickness
Module 5 - Integrity and Maintenance of Pipelines
Key Topics
- Threats to pipeline integrity and safety
- External corrosion of pipelines in soil
- Evaluation and mitigation of mechanical damage in pipelines
- Erosion-corrosion in oil and gas pipelines
- Black powder in gas transmission pipelines
- Pipeline cleaning
- Managing of aging pipelines
- Pipeline repair
- Pipeline abandonment
- Risk management of pipelines