Pipeline in service inspection standard

[M.CH]

Hi

There are some standards for in service inspection in ASME and API for piping ang piping component.

Is it possible to use these standard for Pipeline?

Thanks for your advise.

 

[LittleInch]

Which standards do you mean?

ASME B31G gives you some guidance and the design codes themselves offer some guidance on inspection.

Any particular aspect you're thinking of?

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[M.CH]

Thanks Littleinch,

I mean API570,

 

[SJones]

Google "Pipeline Direct Assessment"

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All answers are personal opinions only and are in no way connected with any employer.

 

[LittleInch]

The difficulty in using API 570 for pipelines is that as afar as I can see they are based on being able to access the pipe material for visual and NDE such as UT, X ray etc.

Buried pipelines tend to make that quite hard.

section 9 of API 570 addresses buried piping which is similar to pipelines.

Your question though is quite vague and I don't really understand where you're coming from?

Are you looking for ways to interpret metal loss data? Then go for ASME B31G, even though it's a bit conservative I think.

But you need specialists for this task.

Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.

 

[HTURKAK]

Your profession (Petroleum) implies the pipeline is for oil..

I will suggest you to develop in-house company standard for in service inspection ,and probably should address; pipeline repair,pipeline protection, Corrosion Control , row and site maintenance
,pipeline pigging,valve maintenance requirements, SCADA and system automation ....etc...

You may look to API 570,API 579-1 FFS-1, for specific items..

Good luck..

 

[M.CH]

Thanks for your advise
HTURKAK
LittleInch
SJones