2012 Conference Program
To enquire regarding speaking opportunities, please contact Graham Christison, or telephone +1 (416) 214 1144
Program - Day One18th January 2012
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- Progress on the re-authorization of the Pipeline Safety Act
- New roles and responsibilities of the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
- New protocols and criteria for pipeline inspection: What to Expect when we’re Inspecting
- Developing continuous improvement strategies into risk-based inspection and enforcement practices
John A. Jacobi, P.E.
Community Assistance/Technical Services (CATS) Manager, SW Region
Office of Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
- Transportation solutions being realized through major projects: underway and proposed
- Challenges that increasingly affect project success, such as stakeholder opposition, acquiring a route and gaining local, state and federal approvals
- Approaches needed in planning and securing approvals for major projects
- Proactive tools that should be in every successful project manager’s toolbox
- Avoiding integrity pitfalls in the design stage of your pipeline projects
- Controlling costs with material and labor scheduling techniques
- Addressing the areas of highest risk: how to know what problems might occur
- Informing construction plans with intelligence on managing mechanical damage
- Assessing the suitability of new materials versus conventional steel for your pipeline project
- Planning for the correct number of intervals and access for optimized maintenance
Shankar Rajagopalan
Vice President of Technology, New Product Development
CRC-Evans Automatic Welding
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE INSPECTION OF CHALLENGING PIPELINES
- Pipeline inspection with intelligent In-Line Inspection (ILI) tools have been established in the industry for decades
- The quality and the value of ILI services for evaluating the integrity of pipelines are undisputed
- Recent advances in the capabilities of these tools to negotiate variations in pipeline diameter have led to an optimism that eventually every pipeline can be inspected internally for mechanical damage, corrosion or cracking
Procurement Practice and Quality Assurance for Project Success
- Current regulatory and market environments
- Beyond API 5L: Comprehensive project design and specification
- Potential shortfalls in the procurement process
- Expertise needed to support procurement professionals
- Third-party quality assurance support
- Case study
Natural Gas Marketplace: Factors Influencing Price and Production of Natural Gas
- What are the long term implications of de-coupled oil and gas prices?
- How has shale gas production redefined flows and imports to the US?
- Current state of gas transmission and storage capacity
- What are the implications for demand from Canadian sources?
- Where will LNG be exported from in the US?
- Can America compete in the global LNG marketplace as a natural gas exporter?
Jeff C. Wright
Director, Office of Energy Projects (OEP), Infrastructure Policy Group
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
CASE STUDY: Creating an Enterprise Wide Culture that Values Safety
- Establishing a culture of continuous improvement in your HSE practices
- Achieving companywide buy in to best practices
- Creation of a culture that values safety
- How safety adds value to your organization
Byron Smith
Director of Environmental Safety and Technical Training, Gas Operations
CenterPoint Energy
Transforming CRM Regulation into Operational Excellence: Going Beyond Compliance
- Understanding the impact of the Human Factor in mission-critical operations
- Addressing controller workload, situational awareness and fatigue mitigation in control room management practices
- Delivering improved controller performance with best control room design and change management practices
Tracking Technology for Maximizing Operational Safety during Nord Stream Construction
- Ensuring full transparency, supervising quality and managing complexity during the construction phase
- Establishing standards for planning, construction and operation of through proper documentation of the entire pipeline logistics chain
- Overcoming logistical challenges in the Nord Stream project through data and reporting standardization
- Role of proper documentation in improving quality assurance and safety
- Managing and monitoring contractor and supplier performance
- Prioritizing critical segments of the current pipeline infrastructure
- What percentage of the current system can handle current inspection technologies?
- Establishing appropriate placement and frequency of automatic and remotely operated shut off valves
- New developments in risk assessment techniques
- Assessing best available technologies for monitoring, measurement and inspection
Program - Day Two19th January 2012
- Project milestones to date and next steps in moving the project forward
- Components of the integrity management plan unique to the Keystone Pipeline Project
- Techniques and technologies unique to the project designed for enhanced public and environmental safety
- Moving more than oil: delivering over $20 billion in benefits to the US economy
- Industry-leading best practices in engineering design, pipe fabrication, system testing and pipeline integrity management to ensure public and environmental safety
- Rational for building above and beyond the requirements of the regulator
- Recent case studies and incidents demonstrating the impact of liability on operational costs
- Assessing reputational risk in terms of corporate temperament, regulatory scrutiny and stock market response
- Adapting to the current regulatory environment
- Where in your pipeline management strategy can corporate liability have the most debilitating impacts?
- Comparison of the cost of compliance versus later liability
- How does compliance act as a cost-saving mechanism in your risk management model?
Best Practices in Land Acquisition and Right-of-Way (ROW) Planning for Pipeline Projects
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- Managing the complexity of pipeline projects
- Trends in adopting technology within the industry
- How are mobile platforms changing the way land agents manage their work?
- Techniques for evaluating technologies based on current and future needs
- To build or not to build - Should organizations build internally or outsource to a technology company?
Optimizing Integrity and Asset Management through Enterprise Software Solutions and GIS Data Integration
- What aspects of integrity management and pipeline planning can be best informed through GIS data?
- Adopting an enterprise approach to data management and capture
- Solving enterprise asset management problems: what are the tools?
- How to optimize GIS and increase the usefulness of your data across all enterprise and field users?
- Trends with GIS
Case Study: Field Test Results for Emerging Pipeline Leak Detection Technologies
- Assessing the limitations of current standard technologies
- How effective are ground monitoring and remote sensing from a cost per inspected mile perspective?
- Comparative analysis of sensitivity and reliability of ground based, laser and GFCR detection technologies
- New advancements in Gas-Filter Correlation Radiometry (GFCR) improving performance in practical field applications
- Advantages of aerial based inspections in terms of access to land, coverage and cost
Recent Innovations in Pipeline Seam Weld Integrity Assessment
- The rationale for using state-of-the-art assessment technology—how a “conservative” approach can be unsafe.
- A comparison of new and traditional failure models.
- The “virtual burst test” methodology for accurate burst predictions.
- The limitations of Charpy testing on seam welds.
- Real-time pressure cycle fatigue analysis.
How do you leverage technology for your projects?
Sponsored by geoAMPS
Geoamps
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PIGGING VALVES - AN ALTERNATIVE TO PIG LAUNCHING AND RECEIVING THROUGH CLOSURE STYLE TRAPS
Sponsored by Argus Oil Field Products Inc.
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Supplying the Industry with PVF Products
Sponsored by MRC- McJunkin Red Man
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Growing Your Pipeline Industry Safety Culture
Sponsored by Welded Construction LP
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Challenges in Right-Of-Way Acquistions
Sponsored by Percheron Acquisitions
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The Marcellus Shale Experience
Sponsored by STV Energy Services
Portable Satellite Communication Systems for Remote Field Operations
Sponsored by Gardline Comms Inc. GCOMM
- What are the principal root causes of the 165,000 underground damages in the last year?
- What can we do to reduce these damages?
- What kind of recognition is "811" receiving?
- What type of "excavation" is causing damages?
- What are the CGA plans for 2012?
Advances in Hydrostatic Pressure Testing Techniques and Technologies
- Addressing issues related to water pre-treatment and post-test treatment in hydrostatic testing
- Establishing selection criteria of chemical additives in terms of asset integrity, cleaning and drying productivity
- Field results of the latest test water filtration equipment and re-use management techniques
- Evaluating digital hydrostatic pressure test data logging and management best practices
Developments in Flexible Composite Linepipe Technology
- Linepipe installation and operation challenges
- Flexible and spoolable composite linepipe technology options
- Considerations for ensuring application suitability and technology selection
- Standards and qualification testing
- Installation and operation case studies
- What are the limitations of the current techniques and technologies for direct assessment surveys?
- Guidelines for establishing optimal intervals and spacing for direct assessment reporting
- Detecting and assessing third party damage to your pipeline infrastructure
- Evaluating coatings and cathodic protection
- Critical concerns for making a fitness-for-service assessment
Mark Piazza
Senior Program Manager, Operations and Integrity
Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)
- Practices for reconfirming data on older and acquired lines
- Processes for establishing Pipe Fitness for Service
- Distinguishing features of the distribution and transmission pipeline infrastructures
- Anticipated state and federal regulatory action on pipe replacement and rehabilitation
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