Product Showcase
Corrpro Inspection Services
Corrpro is a world class provider of pipeline inspection surveys and data analysis. The company’s staff includes numerous personnel with more than 20 years experience in pipeline testing and integrity assessments with more than 500 technical professionals. Corrpro is one of the largest providers of corrosion assessment services, providing inspection services for more than 10,000 miles of pipeline annually, with the following solutions:
• External Corrosion Direct Assessment (ECDA)
Corrpro’s ECDA services entail pre-assessment, indirect examination, direct examination and post assessment. Specialized assessment surveys include CIS potential, electromagnetic, DCVG, ACVG, soil studies, resistivity and sub-meter GPS locating surveys. Other types of examination services performed are excavation, corrosion measurements, root cause analysis, pipe strength calculations and corrosion rate estimates.
• Internal Corrosion Direct Assessment (ICDA)
Corrpro’s team of internal corrosion experts provides comprehensive solutions for internal pipeline integrity. Services cover initial corrosion assessment and testing, design and planning of mitigation programs and measurement of the effectiveness of corrosion control measures.
• Stress Corrosion Cracking Direct Assessment (SCCDA)
Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) is an integrity threat for many pipeline operators. Corrpro’s staff is experienced at direct
assessment methodologies and in performing SCCDA requirements for both Near-Neutral-pH and High-pH SCC.
• In-line Inspection Programs
Corrpro also provides in-line inspection programs using a pig, a device which is inserted into and run through a pipeline to perform a specific function. Over the last 25 years, Corrpro’s experts have processed in-line inspection data for thousands of miles of natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines.
Corrpro uses both non intelligent and intelligent pigs depending on the application. Visit www.corrpro.com to learn more.
Precision Pigging X-110 Geometry/Deformation Caliper Pig
Precision Pigging proudly reports that its latest technology, the X-110 geometry/deformation caliper pig has been outperforming expectations. The X-110’s unique design provides 110 percent coverage of the pipeline wall, ensuring an unparalleled level of accuracy. For example, Precision Pigging recently completed the inspection of a major 138-mile project — all nine places called out during Precision Pigging inspection runs were located immediately, and eight of those nine were also cut out and
replaced. Moreover, the X-110 has all sensors in direct contact with the pipe wall and was specifically designed to comply with all PHMSA guidelines. In addition to increasing Precision Pigging’s arsenal of advanced technology, the company has also maintained its commitment to customer service. Precision Pigging’s highly competitive bid proposals have an average turnaround time of less than 24 hours. Questions from clients are welcomed and encouraged, and personal contact from Precision Pigging’s senior project manager allows for fluid scheduling requests and dynamic project management. Precision Pigging’s website provides an additional level of customer service, offering detailed information regarding the company’s history and technology, as well as easy access to bid and information requests. The website also provides unique formulas to calculate the amount of compressed air required for both caliper and foam pig runs, applying user-entered variables. 2011 has been a banner year for Precision Pigging, thanks to the support of new and repeat clients. This year, Precision Pigging inspected pipelines from 6- to 42-in. throughout the United States, as well as in Mexico. Due to the greatly increased demand for Precision Pigging’s exceptional technology and services, the company currently plans further expansion in 2012.
Visit the company’s website at www.precisionpigging.com.
Enduro DfL Multi-Tool
Enduro Pipeline Services Inc., from the beginning of the company in 1986 to the present day, offers services and sales to assist oil and gas industry clients with their pipeline problems. The founders of Enduro believe in a hands-on approach to solving pipeline challenges, providing optimum solutions. Enduro’s complete pipeline integrity service employs multiple technology tools for pipeline inspection. The Enduro DfL multi-tool’s ability to acquire data from several sources simultaneously in one pass allows analysts to compare/analyze each data set. The result, Enduro may more readily recognize all pipeline features, geometry and/or metal loss indications, plus simultaneously evaluate for deformation, strain, profile and permeability variations. Enduro’s single pivot sensors have the ability to record very small deformation and metal loss with one tool and confirm these indications with the company’s single analysis PigProg2 software program.
Additional products and services include pipeline cleaning pigs, such as the Advantage, BI-DI, Pig Trains, Ure-Cast, Dual Diameter; pig tracking equipment and services equipment, like the new walk around unit, Geophones, transmitters/receivers; pig passage indicators, like the Pig Popper, which is available in multiple styles; GPS surveys performed with a mapping option; and caliper/geometry services with multi-channel DdL, which detects size anomalies, detects and measures bends, direction, angle and weld logs. Enduro’s design team, with more than 50 years of combined experience in the development of pipeline corrosion inspection tools, has launched these second generation, state-of-the-art tools with numerous innovative features. Visit the company’s website at www.enduropls.com.
T.D. Williamson SpirALL Magnetic Flux Leakage Tool
T.D. Williamson Inc. (TDW) has developed a new approach to seam assessment, one based on a spiral (or oblique) magnetic field to create what is known as a SpirALL magnetic flux leakage (SMFL) tool. Like other types of inspection tools, SMFL tools use magnetizers to help identify defects. Unlike other tools, SMFL tools create a diagonally flowing, 45-degree magnetic field that enables accurate detection and characterization of longitudinal anomalies in a pipe body or longitudinal weld seam. SpirALL MFL technology from TDW requires just one compact magnetizer to provide a complete seam assessment. One magnetizer means SMFL technology can be paired with other inspection technologies, such as traditional axial MFL, without extending overall tool length. Pairing technologies generates multiple datasets with only one run. For example, pairing MFL and SMFL enables traditional internal and external metal loss assessment, classification of seam-weld anomalies and quantification of other longitudinal defects in the pipe body. The MFL plus SMFL platform is run in tandem with other technologies such as high resolution deformation (DEF) for locating, sizing and determining orientation of diameter reductions or expansions. Inside diameter/outside diameter (ID/OD) sensors are incorporated on deformation arms to verify ID/OD metal loss classifications and internal surface details. Residual or low-field sensors detect hard spots, the “halo-effect” caused by dent re-rounding and other flaws. Simultaneous use of multiple inspection technologies does two things.
It provides more opportunities to detect a defect or anomaly. And, once an anomaly is found, use of multiple technologies assists accurate identification and sizing. Obtaining several views of an anomaly from a single run gives analysts more information that can be correlated more completely than ever before. The ultimate benefit for the pipeline operator: superior reporting, resulting in enhanced anomaly characterization and elimination of unnecessary digs, saving time and money. Visit the company’s website at www.tdwilliamson.com.