Managing Pipeline Cracking Challenges

The Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives are holding this event to gather and disseminate information on the state of the art of crack detection in hazardous liquid and natural gas pipelines. Perspectives on the challenges involved with detecting and characterizing crack like defects, including environmentally assisted cracks and cracks with corrosion, will be provided from operators and regulators. This event will provide and update on technology developments via research, the success rate in deploying such technology for detection and a discussion on the level of and types of data collected in support of engineering assessments. It will also discuss other information in support of criteria for determining when a probable crack defect in a pipeline segment must be excavated, the time limits for completing those excavations and in support of models for determining crack growth rates.

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Agenda

Event Moderator: Alan Mayberry, Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy & Programs, DOT/PHMSA

08:40AM Safety Considerations and Pipeline Cracking, - Robert Hall, Dir., Rail/Pipe/Hazmat Investigations, NTSB

     Canadian Federal: Iain Colquhoun, Chief Engineer, National Energy Board of Canada

       NG Trans.: Jim Marr, Manager, SCC Program Planning Manager, TransCanada Pipelines

10:20AM BREAK

               Tech Service Provider #2: Achim Hugger, EVP Data Analysis, NDT Global Inc.

11:30AM LUNCH - On your own

     Tech Service Provider #3: Ted Anderson, Chief Technology Officer, Quest Integrity Group, LLC

        National Gas Association/NYSEARCH: George Vradis, Program Manager, NGA/NYSEARCH

03:00PM BREAK

      Case Study #3: Dave Katz, Metallurgist, Williams