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  Inspection / Monitoring

  QUIZ: Pipeline Crack Inspection (15 Questions to Test Your Knowledge)

  Pipelines are the vital lifelines of the industrial economy, transporting vital energy, water and other essentials needed by households and industry. The integrity of...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Inspection / Monitoring

  QUIZ: 11 Questions to Test Your Underwater Inspection Knowledge

  Many structures, including but not limited to bridges, jetties and offshore platforms, are partially if not completely surrounded by water. Similar to buildings and...

  By: Krystal Nanan | Civil Engineer

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  Inspection / Monitoring

  IoT for Corrosion Monitoring in the Oil and Gas Industry

  The oil and gas industry has faced many challenges over the years - the most significant of these being corrosion control and corrosion protection. The United States...

  By: Krystal Nanan | Civil Engineer

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  Pipeline

  Remote Corrosion Monitoring Systems in the Oil and Gas Industry

  Equipment inspection and monitoring are important activities for safe operation and productivity in the oil and gas industry. Remote corrosion monitoring systems enable...

  By: Kasay Mwiks

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  Corrosion

  The 3 Stages of Corrosion Failure Analysis

  Failure analysis is a vast concept that includes different fields such as electronics, mechanics, metallurgy, corrosion and so forth. However, for a corrosion engineer,...

  By: Mehdi Yari | Electrochemistry and Corrosion Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario

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  Inspection / Monitoring

  Beginners Guide to Becoming an Offshore Coating Inspector

  Offshore coating inspectors, as their name suggests, are coating inspectors that work mainly in marine and offshore environments. It is, therefore, essential for these...

  By: Krystal Nanan | Civil Engineer

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  Corrosion Prevention

  EIT Corrosion Detection Systems: Are They the Future?

  Prestressed concrete structures with post-tensioned (PT) tendons have been extensively used for bridges because they facilitate the creation of long-span superstructures...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Failure

  Engineering Ships for Better Coating Performance

  When asked why a coating has failed to deliver some expected performance, most people immediately respond that there was a failure in the surface preparation or the...

  By: Raouf Kattan | Managing Director, Safinah Ltd.

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  Corrosion Prevention

  Pitting Corrosion Prevention: How to Protect and Monitor Metallic Surfaces

  At first glance, pitting corrosion looks like a tiny localized type of electrochemical deterioration found on metallic surfaces that often goes unnoticed. However, it...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Corrosion Prevention

  Multi-Technique Pipeline Corrosion Monitoring

  A multi-technique corrosion monitoring system combines two or more techniques to cover a wide base for data gathering and to provide accurate corrosion data as well as...

  By: Kasay Mwiks

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  Prevention

  Gas Pipelines: Internal Corrosion Protection and Fire Prevention

  Most gas pipelines are used for transporting and distributing natural gas from gas fields to consumer installations and homes. This gas is extracted from rocky reserves...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Inspection / Monitoring

  Guided Wave Ultrasonic Testing for Non-piggable Pipelines

  Pipelines have been used as a safe and cost effective method of hydrocarbon transportation since 1860. A routine inspection is required to ensure that the pipelines are...

  By: Mohamed Adel Mohamadein | Head of the Corrosion, Arab Petroleum Pipelines