Review and analysis of pipeline leak detection methods
December 2022
A pipeline burst or rupture causing a leak may significantly impact the environment and the reputation of the company operating the pipeline. In recent years, oil and gas pipelines are expected to be...
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A techno-economic study of the strategy for hydrogen transport by pipelines in Canada
Available online 20 January 2023
•Analyzed the various hydrogen transportation methods•Suggested the optimal option for hydrogen transport in Canada•Discussed the technical challenges when repurposing existing pipeline for hydrogen...
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Risk-based pipeline integrity management: A road map for the resilient pipelines
March 2021
Pipelines are the most vital energy-transportation mediums of today’s energy-intensive economies. To a level, pipeline integrity is tied to the continuous development and robustness of modern societies,...
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Drag reduction in single-phase crude oil flow: A mini-review
December 2022
It is well recognized that a major issue for fluid flows in many industrial pipe systems, including the transportation of crude oil, is the high energy consumption in the pipeline system brought on...
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Data augmentation using conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN): Application for prediction of corrosion pit depth and testing using neural network
March 2023
Machine learning (ML) based algorithms, due to their ability to model nonlinear and complex relationship, have been used in predicting corrosion pit depth in oil and gas pipelines. Class imbalance and...
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Review of minimum requirements and development of guidance for weld spacing
September 2022
Follow-on work to a recently completed joint industry project pertaining to hot tap branch connections included the development of guidance on minimum spacing between various combinations of adjacent...
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Critical flow velocity phenomenon in erosion-corrosion of pipelines: determination methods, mechanisms and applications
March 2021
The critical flow velocity phenomenon is common in erosion-corrosion of many materials. It is of great importance to develop methods to determine the critical flow velocity and understand mechanisms...
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Assessing damaged pipelines transporting hydrogen
September 2022
There is worldwide interest in transporting hydrogen using both new pipelines and pipelines converted from natural gas service. Laboratory tests investigating the effect of hydrogen on the mechanical...
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Global and local parameters for characterizing and modeling external corrosion in underground coated steel pipelines: A review of critical factors
March 2021
External corrosion assessments of pipeline systems encompass two critical factors: time and space (location). Field measurement databases, laboratory testing, and theoretical prediction studies have...
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Current technologies and the applications of data analytics for crude oil leak detection in surface pipelines
December 2021
Pipeline pressure monitoring has been the traditional and most popular leak detection approach, however, the delays with leak detection and localization coupled with the large number of false alarms...
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Hydrogen assisted cracking driven by cathodic protection operated at near −1200 mV CSE – an onshore natural gas pipeline failure
March 2021
A 22-inch onshore natural gas transmission pipeline in operation since 1960 experienced an in-service rupture in January of 2018. The rupture was caused by an axial crack located 150 km (93 miles) downstream...
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Resilience assessment of a subsea pipeline using dynamic Bayesian network
June 2022
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) is a serious concern and plays a significant role in the marine and subsea industry’s infrastructure failure. A probabilistic methodology is introduced in...
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Artificial neural network models of burst strength for thin-wall pipelines
December 2022
Burst strength is critical to pipeline design, operation, and integrity management. The Barlow formula with the ultimate tensile stress (UTS) was often used to estimate burst strength of line pipes....
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An investigation of mitigating the safety and security risks allied with oil and gas pipeline projects
September 2021
Oil and Gas Pipeline (OGP) projects face a wide range of safety and security Risk Factors (RFs) globally, particularly in the oil and gas producing countries having insecure environment and poor safety...
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An overview on pipeline steel development for cold climate applications
March 2022
For some decades, the resources within the northern hemisphere have been studied for possible exploration. The need for reliable infrastructures in such extreme cold climatic condition is constantly...
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An insight into asphaltene precipitation, deposition and management stratagems in petroleum industry
December 2021
Petroleum industry is the mainstay of the economical enlargement of many nations. Most of the market prices of all commodities are built on the cost of wide-range of petroleum products. Prompt identifying...
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A comparative study of burst failure models for assessing remaining strength of corroded pipelines
March 2021
•A comprehensive review of corrosion assessment models was provided for corroded pipelines.•The existing corrosion models were categorized into three generations in terms of their reference stress.•The...
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Framework for Generating Pipeline Leak Datasets using PIPESIM
Available online 26 January 2023
Access to pipeline leak datasets is one of the most critical challenges limiting the development of robust pipeline leak detection algorithms using Machine learning. While machine learning presents...
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Surface Pipeline Leak Detection Using Realtime Sensor Data Analysis
Available online 29 December 2022
The most common type of leak detection system (LDS) is designed to detect leaks that generate a sufficient pressure variation which can be detected at either the inlet or the outlet sensors. However,...
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Investigation on utilizing pulse CP in a city gas station: a comparison with conventional CP
Available online 14 January 2023
In this study, a pulse cathodic protection (CP) rectifier was designed and made. The performance of the pulse rectifier was monitored and compared with a conventional system. In this regard, different...
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A new calculation method and model of hydrate slurry flow of the multiphase pipeline in deep water gas field
March 2023
The transportation environment of multiphase pipelines in deepwater gas fields is likely to cause the problem of hydrate flow safety. Aiming at the gas-liquid-solid three-phase flow problem containing...
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Investigation on leakage detection and localization in gas-liquid stratified flow pipelines based on acoustic method
December 2022
Leakage detection technology is of vital importance to the safe operation and flow insurance of multiphase flow pipelines. This paper for the first time applies acoustic based leakage detection method...
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Physics-informed Student’s t mixture regression model applied to predict mixed oil length
March 2023
Real-time estimation of thelength of mixed oil in a multi-product pipeline is a critical task during batch transportation. In previous studies, various predictive models have been built while they merely...
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Plastic collapse analysis in multiaxially loaded defective pipe specimens at different temperatures
March 2023
A comprehensive numerical investigation is carried out using a newly developed constitutive model to describe failure at low temperatures in multiaxially loaded cracked pipes made of 316L stainless...
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Mechano-electrochemical interaction for pipeline corrosion: A review
March 2021
•Define the thermodynamics and kinetics of mechano-electrochemical interaction for pipeline corrosion.•Quantitatively determine the effects of elastic and plastic deformations on pipeline corrosion.•Develop...
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