Pipeline Things

Today Pipeline Things welcomes guest Alex Mckenzie-Johnson, a dirt merchant and senior principal at Geosyntec Consultants. Join thing 20 and 20-fun as they discuss geohazards and why operators may not always be aware of the threat. This episode will leave you with the question: Do operators find geohazards, or do geohazards find operators?

Highlights:

-  Is it Thing 21 or 20-fun?

-  Meet the dirt merchant Alex Mckenzie-Johnson, P.G*, L.G**, L.E.G**

-  Are geohazards legitimate, credible threats?

-  Why are operators not always aware of the threat of geohazards?

-  What role does the dirt have in a geohazard?

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Guidelines for Management of Landslide Hazards for Pipelines

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Are you using RSTRENG for all your burst pressure calculations? Depending on your answer, you may want to tune into this episode of Pipeline Things. Today Rhett discusses snowmobiling and going off track. Meanwhile, Christopher explains MFL-A technology, integrity assessments, and tools. As always, it’ll be a wild ride on today’s episode.

Highlights:

How do you use MFL-A for an integrity assessment?

How do you engage your vendor?

How does an operator decide what tool to use?

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MFL, PPIM, and a mortician? Learn about all these topics on the latest episode of Pipeline Things with Thing 20 and 21. Trust us, it’s an episode you’ll be dying to listen to.

Highlights:

·  PPIM Recap

·  Overcoming Technical Limitations and Critical Complex Corrosion

·  Technology premise, how does it work?

·  What are the limitations of MFL and things to be aware of?

·  How do operators discover these limitations?

·  What can operators do about these limitations?

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Pipeline Things welcomes its first guest David Futch, a senior associate at ADV Integrity where he guides clients through failure analysis programs, repair technique selection, material degradation phenomena, material selection, and welding-related issues. In this episode, David walks listeners through the process of a failure analysis while Rhett and Christopher debate mutton busting and even attempt to bring Morgan Freeman onto the show. Easy to say Ms. Producer had her hands full recording this episode!

Time Stamps:

5:52 – What is it like to be an operator when a failure happens?

7:34 – Introducing today’s guest David Futch

12:09 – What happens in a failure analysis?

20:32 – Who is a part of a failure assessment?

21:52 – What should an operator expect in a failure report? How should an operator use that report?

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