Pipeline Things

Today Thing 20 reflects on John Denver and Reader’s Digest, meanwhile, Thing 21 goes in-depth about EMAT and how you can package an ultrasonic tool in Jell-O. Oh, and the Things take a phone call. Usual podcast things happening in today’s episode.

Highlights:

- Thing 21’s experience with EMAT

- How and why is EMAT unique?

- The importance of EMAT performance specifications

- How to call for help

Today Thing 20 and 21 answer audience questions… that is until a listner challenges them to arm-wrestle. Who will win? Thing 20? Or Thing 21? It’s the WWE around here today.

Today Thing 20 and 21 welcome Sean Moran to the podcast. Sean is a senior engineer at Williams who has experience with the ILI vendor side and was once an EMAT product manager. While Sean gets serious about EMAT, Christopher and Rhett discuss basketball, ping pong, and Thor Ragnarök? It really is May madness around here.

Highlights:

- Get help and whom you should consider getting help from as an Operator

- Has Sean seen bullets on a pipeline?

- EMAT is still new

- How can a vendor be helpful when running EMAT?

Today Thing 20 and Thing 21 (or 20-fun?) compare A1 steak sauce and Wagyu steak to IMU and bending strain. In this episode, Rhett reminisces on a trip to California while Christopher discusses what’s at stake when collecting and analyzing IMU data. The episode even has a fun surprise for Thing 20 and 21.

Highlights:

- Do you need AGMs to perform a bending strain assessment?

- What strain should you pay attention to?

- How high is high bending strain?

Today Pipeline Things follows up on the last episode by further discussing IMU. Rhett gets caught in a hailstorm while Christopher dives into IMU. Christopher even throws a few punches, so be sure to give this episode a listen because you never know what you’re going to get with these two!

Highlights:

- The problems with double integration

- How IMU Technology works

- How to get the most out of your IMU data

- Why you need to be running IMU

Today Pipeline Things welcomes guest Alex Mckenzie-Johnson, a dirt merchant and senior principal at Geosyntec Consultants. Join thing 20 and 20-fun as they discuss geohazards and why operators may not always be aware of the threat. This episode will leave you with the question: Do operators find geohazards, or do geohazards find operators?

Highlights:

-  Is it Thing 21 or 20-fun?

-  Meet the dirt merchant Alex Mckenzie-Johnson, P.G*, L.G**, L.E.G**

-  Are geohazards legitimate, credible threats?

-  Why are operators not always aware of the threat of geohazards?

-  What role does the dirt have in a geohazard?

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Are you using RSTRENG for all your burst pressure calculations? Depending on your answer, you may want to tune into this episode of Pipeline Things. Today Rhett discusses snowmobiling and going off track. Meanwhile, Christopher explains MFL-A technology, integrity assessments, and tools. As always, it’ll be a wild ride on today’s episode.

Highlights:

How do you use MFL-A for an integrity assessment?

How do you engage your vendor?

How does an operator decide what tool to use?

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MFL, PPIM, and a mortician? Learn about all these topics on the latest episode of Pipeline Things with Thing 20 and 21. Trust us, it’s an episode you’ll be dying to listen to.

Highlights:

·  PPIM Recap

·  Overcoming Technical Limitations and Critical Complex Corrosion

·  Technology premise, how does it work?

·  What are the limitations of MFL and things to be aware of?

·  How do operators discover these limitations?

·  What can operators do about these limitations?

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Pipeline Things welcomes its first guest David Futch, a senior associate at ADV Integrity where he guides clients through failure analysis programs, repair technique selection, material degradation phenomena, material selection, and welding-related issues. In this episode, David walks listeners through the process of a failure analysis while Rhett and Christopher debate mutton busting and even attempt to bring Morgan Freeman onto the show. Easy to say Ms. Producer had her hands full recording this episode!

Time Stamps:

5:52 – What is it like to be an operator when a failure happens?

7:34 – Introducing today’s guest David Futch

12:09 – What happens in a failure analysis?

20:32 – Who is a part of a failure assessment?

21:52 – What should an operator expect in a failure report? How should an operator use that report?

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In the second half of Pipeline Things' inaugural episode, Christopher and Rhett discuss key takeaways from PHMSA's Chris Hoidal and his presentation at IDT EXPO. Christopher highlights the proper application of ECA, procedures just parroting the code, and not adding OQ covered tasks for material verification work. Meanwhile, Rhett explains the phrase "don't throw the dishes out with the dishwater."

Time Stamps:

10:10 Proper Application of ECA

15:00 Procedures just parroting the code

18:28 Not adding OQ covered tasks for material verification work

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Nothing, except Christopher De Leon. In this very first episode of Pipeline Things, Christopher and Rhett discuss key takeaways from IDT EXPO, an innovation, design, and technology event for the midstream industry. Christopher previews MAOP reconfirmation, regulatory updates – and Rhett cracks the jokes. Truly, it can only go up from here.

Time Stamps:

1:30 Meet your hosts

3:35 All about Pipeline Things

13:45 IDT Expo

16:17 Jeff Allen’s Innovation Presentation

16:55 Simon Bellemare’s Design Presentation

18:15 Hatem Haidar’s Technology Presentation

20:02 Introducing Chris Hoidal’s PHMSA Presentation

24:35 MAOP Reconfirmation Applicability

27:53 Non TVC Hydrotests

28:59 Opportunistic Dig Definition and Procedures

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