The released documents are also available for purchase and use by non-member pipeline operating companies and pipeline engineering, consulting, and service companies.
Detection of anomalies in coated pipelines using long-range ultrasonics (L51925) combines theory, modelling, and experimental/operational elements in addressing the more-complex situations found at buried sections of pipelines, specifically dealing with bitumen coating.
Cathodic protection conditions conducive to SCC (L51897) provides a protocol the pipeline operator can use to identify those portions of the pipeline system where the 100-mV polarization criterion can be safely used, and those portions where use of the criterion may promote SCC.
A study of joining processes for pipelines (L51534) reviews development of the fusion-welding, forge-welding, and mechanical-interference joining processes, and compares the economics of the various alternatives.
These documents, and all the rest of PRCI’s pipeline technical research and software, is available for purchase by non-member companies and can be obtained through the PRCI web site located at www.prci.com. PRCI is a 50-year old not-for-profit organization whose members include 23 of the world’s largest pipeline operating companies. PRCI invests in R&D of new technology for the energy pipeline industry, with a technology budget that exceeds US$12.5million per year. The group is the only pipeline organization whose sole focus is pipeline technical research to enable energy pipeline companies throughout the world to improve their safety, reliability, environmental performance, and cost effectiveness through collaborative industry-wide research and development programmes.