Featured Oil and Gas Pipeline Integrity Case Studies

Publish Date: Apr 23, 2013 | 0 Ratings | 0.00 out of 5 | PDF

Overview

Pipelines are generally the most economical and convenient way to transport large quantities of oil and gas over land and below the sea from offshore facilities. However, these pipelines usually traverse long distances through remote, environmentally sensitive areas. To ensure safety and supply and avoid catastrophic failures, companies use pipeline integrity and environmental safety practices. With the right set of tools capable of operating in harsh and remote environments, companies can benefit from accelerated deployments to manage corrosion, pipeline maintenance inspection, and flow behavior analysis of transported liquid hydrocarbons and gas.

Below are some of the application challenges companies are meeting with innovative National Instruments technologies for pipeline integrity solutions. Below is a selection of just some of the applications that have been solved with National Instruments innovative technologies for pipeline integrity solutions.

Corrosion Inspection
Fault Detection
Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG)
Pipeline Monitoring
Security of Supply
Safety
Liquid Flow

1. Corrosion Inspection

Creating a system that inspects inaccessible pipe portions at the support locations by exciting circumferential guided waves at the accessible region of the pipe.

2. Fault Detection

Developing a method to accurately measure the complex permittivity of Rilsan, a vital material used in oil pipe construction, at microwave frequencies to aid with ...

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3. Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG)

Designing and implementing a real-time data acquisition and processing system to manage data from an inertial navigation system (INS) traveling inside an oil or gas pipeline using NI CompactRIO with the NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module to acquire, preprocess, and store the data, and LabVIEW to post process the data for final results.

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