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Making a ‘smart’ pipe lining technology stops corrosion being Mostafa Tantawi is a

By Elaine Maslin incurred from the outset, which is one of senior pipeline

R esearchers at Norway’s SINTEF together its most important bene? ts. engineer at Xodus

Polymer lining technology performs with a consortium of industrial partners

Subsea. He has over to the stringent health and safety four years’ experi- have developed technologies to enable

Pipelines standards that the oil and gas indus- ence in subsea real-time condition monitoring reports from try demands, allowing pipelines to be engineering and within pipelines to be transmitted to shore. constructed and installed within a low pipelines mechanical

The Research Council of Norway- risk environment and affording lifetime design. He has an supported SmartPipe technology carries protection.

MSc in Subsea Engineering. out condition monitoring in real time. This is achieved by installing belts around the

Conclusion David Whittle has pipelines packed with a multitude of sensors

The future seems bright for the usage of over 40 years’ which measure pipewall thickness, tension, polymer linings for affordable internal experience in the temperature and vibration.

corrosion protection. With the average pipeline industry, in

The sensor belts are at 24m intervals cost of installation and maintaining a various engineering along the length of the pipeline. A thick pipeline accounting for around 35% of a capacities in the UK insulating layer of polypropylene covers the typical subsea tie-back project, it is little and internationally outside of the steel pipe construction, and wonder that such efforts are going into for organizations this is where the electronics are concealed. research and development activity and including British

It is also through this layer that wireless data cost saving measures.

Gas and Subsea 7.

transmissions can be sent either onshore or The ongoing work being undertaken Whittle joined Swagelining in 2009 at to the production platform.

by operators, and the interest being the inception of the company as business

The SmartPipe was launched in 2006 shown by the industry indicates that the development director. He works with and is being conducted in collaboration with message is getting across and polymer new and existing clients to determine

Bredero Shaw, Force Technology, Siemens lining is being considered as a serious future industry requirements for polymer

Subsea and ebm-papst. alternative. lining technology across a range of

Last autumn, 200m of SmartPipe pipeline

Is polymer lining technology ? nally projects in subsea and onshore pipeline was laid in Orkanger harbor, Norway, for sea shaping up to its promise? systems. trials. The trials were a success and SINTEF

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