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Exhibition Schedule

Tuesday, February 13

12:00pm-4:00 Setup6:00pm-7:00pm Cocktail reception in the Exhibition Hall, exhibits open

Wednesday, February 14

9:00am-6:30pm Exhibits open

5:00-6:30pm Cocktail Reception in the Exhibition Hall

Thursday, February 15

9:00am-1:30pm Exhibits open

1:30pm Dismantle exhibits

Conference Technical Program

Wednesday, February 14

9.00 Opening remarks

9.15 1 Determining the velocity required to keep solids moving in liquid pipelines, Dr John

Smart, John Smart Consulting Engineers, Houston, TX, USA

9.55 2 Chemically cleaning pipelines, by George Carlisle, Baker Hughes Pipeline ManagementGroup, Houston, TX, USA

10.35 Coffee, exhibition

11.10 3 Inspection of non-piggable pipelines using ultrasonic PigLet technology, Hans Gmitroij,A. Hak Industrial Services, Geldermalsen, Netherlands

11.50 4 Method for establishing hydrostatic re-test intervals for pipelines with stress-corrosion

cracking, by Dr Ray Fessler, Biztek Consulting, Evanston, IL, USA, and Steve Rapp,Duke Energy Transmission, Houston, TX, USA

12.30 Lunch, exhibition

1.50 5 Development of a predictive model to detect the location of susceptible SCC areas, byJorge Bonetto, Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (TGS), Buenos Aires, Argentina

2.30 6 Legal issues in pipeline integrity programs, by Chris A Paul, Joyce, Paul & McDaniel,

Tulsa, OK, USA

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3.10 Coffee, exhibition

3.40 7 Sustaining and improving the viability of the pipeline infrastructure, by Tom Miesner,

Miesner LLC, Katy, TX, USA

4.20 8 Camisea pipeline ruptures, audit, and next steps, by Bill Powers and Carlos Salazar, E-

Tech International, Santa Fe, NM, USA

5.00 End of day 1 - reception in exhibition area

Thursday, February 15

9.00 9 Camisea pipelines integrity challenges, by Jose Luis Lanziani and Luis Sotelo Alvarado,

Transportadora de Gas del Peru SA, Lima, Peru

9.40 10 Operator assessment of ILI defects, by Kevin W. Ferguson, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line

Co, Houston, TX, USA

10.20 Coffee, exhibition

11.00 11 Response to API 1163 and its impact on pipeline integrity management, by Munendra S

Tomar and Martin Fingerhut, Applus RTD, Houston, TX, USA

11.40 12 Leak detection system demonstration at Equitable Midstream, by Dr Scott McLaren,

Apogee Scientific, Englewood, CO, USA, and Robert Cooper, Equitable Midstream,

Charleston, WV, USA

12.20 Lunch, exhibition

1.40 13 ILI performance verification and assessment, by Guy Desjardins, Desjardins Integrity

Ltd, Calgary, AB, Canada, and Randy Nickle and Mike Read, Alliance Pipeline, Calgary,

AB, USA

2.20 14 Predicting corrosion rates for onshore oil and gas pipelines, by Dr Julia M. Race,

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle, UK, and Jane Dawson, Leanne Stanley,and Dr Shahani Kariyawasam, PII Pipeline Solutions Business of GE Oil & Gas,

Cramlington, UK, and Calgary, AB, Canada

3.00 Coffee, exhibition

3.10 15 Combined metal loss and crack inspection of a gas pipeline utilizing ultrasound

technology, by Roger Vogel and Dr Michael Beller, NDT Systems & Services AG,Stutensee, Germany, Reinhard Dyck and Gerard Lalonde, Transcanada Pipeline,

Calgary, AB, Canada, Ray Yates, Tuboscope Pipeline Services, Houston, TX, USA, and

Lee Pollard, Tuboscope Pipeline Services, AB, Canada

3.50 16 Remote-field eddy current inspection system for small-diameter unpiggable pipelines, by

Gary L Burkhardt and Alfred E Crouch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX,USA

4.30 End of conference

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