Pipeline Things

In this episode of Pipeline Things, Things 20 and 21 finish their road trip with the Dirt Merchant. Christopher, Rhett, and Alex finish discussing the new PHMSA advisory bulletin. Rhett and Christopher take over Alex's office. Alex continues to correct Rhett. It's a wild ride once more on Pipeline Things.

Highlights:

- The capabilities of LIDAR

- The importance of having an objective when monitoring

- What is considered monitoring?

- Are strain gauges effective?

Resources:

Docket No. PHMSA-2022-0063

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In this episode of Pipeline Things, Things 20 and 21 take listeners on a road trip. While driving, they pick up a hitchhiker, the Dirt Merchant. They get into the fact that mother earth does not care about what's in your pipeline and the Dirt Merchant even corrects Thing 20. Buckle up. We're going for a drive down the PHMSA advisory bulletin!

Highlights:

- Rhett & Christopher pick up a hitchhiker while stuck in the mud

- PHMSA introduced an advisory bulletin

- What would a prescriptive regulation for geohazards look like? Do we want them?

- Where do you begin by identifying the hazards?

Resources:

Docket No. PHMSA-2022-0063

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What do a golf club, 40 snickers bars, and SCC have in common? Listen today to find out! Today, Hosts Thing 20 and 21 bring back their first returning guest, metallurgist David Futch. David gets thrown into a live failure analysis of Rhett's golf club, Christopher gives Rhett a birthday gift, and they all manage to find time to talk about SCC. All fun things on today's episode.

Highlights:

- Rhett turns 40

- How many times has David seen SCC?

- What happened in the infamous incident?
- How does David determine SCC?

- What do operators need to do when a piece of pipe they assume has SEC arrives in a lab for a metallurgical assessment?

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David Futch

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Today Thing 20 and 21 get into the what ifs of EMAT. No, not What If the Marvel show. But Thing 21 does present some what ifs for Star Wars and Marvel. Meanwhile, we get this amazing quote from Thing 20 “Anything worth winning is worth cheating for.” You’ll have to take a listen to know what he was referring to. Also be sure to stay to the end for some bloopers. Enjoy the episode!

Highlights:

- Types of features, good calls, that operators want to see in EMAT tool calling in the long seam

- Types of good calls in the pipe body from EMAT

- What if you had 120 long seam features, all with FPR’s less than 1.1?

- What if you don’t have a sub part J hydrotest?

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Today Thing 20 and 21 are met with an unexpected guest, Rosie the fly. Rosie joins the Things as they laugh about jokes from the 1970s and discuss preliminary reports, draft finals, and response criteria for crack tools. There’s always surprises around here. *No flies were harmed in the making of this podcast.

Highlights:

- Jokes from 1976

- If operators get a DQA or DQR, what should they be looking for?

- Preliminary reports and draft finals

- What should response criteria be for EMAT?

- Advice for operators who need to develop response criteria for crack tools

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Today Thing 20 reflects on John Denver and Reader’s Digest, meanwhile, Thing 21 goes in-depth about EMAT and how you can package an ultrasonic tool in Jell-O. Oh, and the Things take a phone call. Usual podcast things happening in today’s episode.

Highlights:

- Thing 21’s experience with EMAT

- How and why is EMAT unique?

- The importance of EMAT performance specifications

- How to call for help

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Today Thing 20 and 21 answer audience questions… that is until a listner challenges them to arm-wrestle. Who will win? Thing 20? Or Thing 21? It’s the WWE around here today.

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Today Thing 20 and 21 welcome Sean Moran to the podcast. Sean is a senior engineer at Williams who has experience with the ILI vendor side and was once an EMAT product manager. While Sean gets serious about EMAT, Christopher and Rhett discuss basketball, ping pong, and Thor Ragnarök? It really is May madness around here.

Highlights:

- Get help and whom you should consider getting help from as an Operator

- Has Sean seen bullets on a pipeline?

- EMAT is still new

- How can a vendor be helpful when running EMAT?

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Christopher De Leon

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Today Thing 20 and Thing 21 (or 20-fun?) compare A1 steak sauce and Wagyu steak to IMU and bending strain. In this episode, Rhett reminisces on a trip to California while Christopher discusses what’s at stake when collecting and analyzing IMU data. The episode even has a fun surprise for Thing 20 and 21.

Highlights:

- Do you need AGMs to perform a bending strain assessment?

- What strain should you pay attention to?

- How high is high bending strain?

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Today Pipeline Things follows up on the last episode by further discussing IMU. Rhett gets caught in a hailstorm while Christopher dives into IMU. Christopher even throws a few punches, so be sure to give this episode a listen because you never know what you’re going to get with these two!

Highlights:

- The problems with double integration

- How IMU Technology works

- How to get the most out of your IMU data

- Why you need to be running IMU

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