Pipeline repair isn鈥檛 a frequent activity but when it is needed it鈥檚 a critical activity. New tools are being developed and demonstrated to also make it safer and more efficient, and yet challenges remain, such as higher pressure, deeper water, and bi-metallic pipeline repairs. Elaine Maslin reportsPipeline repairs are not that frequent. But the consequences when they do happen can be significant. A damaged pipeline can shut in tens of millions of dollars of production 鈥 per day鈥
NDT Global has won a contract to complete a baseline inspection survey for Trans Adriatic Pipeline, a company operating the namesake European pipeline carrying gas from the Caspian Sea to the EU.TAP is a European leg of a pipeline transporting gas from the Azeri section of the Caspian Sea鈥
Finland鈥檚 Rocsole is hoping to provide operators with better, faster insight into their pipelines through a new compact inline sensor and a large dose of data analytics. Its inspection tool uses electrical tomography and digital signal processing鈥
There are surveys, and then there are surveys. For survey-tech outfit, Ecotone, the business model is offering a faster, digital way to monitor the health of seabed environments and offshore infrastructure. There鈥檚 enough to do with Norway set to invest $4鈥
UK-based wind energy installation and maintenance company 3sun Group has won Vattenfall contract to carry out statutory inspections across its offshore and onshore wind farms in five countries.The deal, which will result in the creation of up to 30 new jobs鈥
