“In a very productive 2024, the Integrity & Inspection Technical Committee successfully completed projects to advance integrity management and address integrity gaps with a total of 16 published final project reports and 8 delivered project knowledge-transfer webinars as of November 4, 2024, and 3+ final project reports expected by 2024 year end. This has well exceeded the 2024 target on 10-12 completed projects and 6-8 knowledge-transfer webinars.

Under the leadership of the passionate project champion and the hardworking PRCI I&I TC PM from initiation to execution, NDE-2-15 was managed diligently with a very focused team effort plus weekly email updates, and delivered a high-quality draft final report in just a little over one year. It is an excellent example of a project that can be executed quickly and efficiently to meet immediate field needs from operators by providing the guidelines for positive identification of Selective Seam Weld Corrosion (SSWC) and proper measuring equipment and techniques for in-the-ditch.

Multiple projects addressing inspection and integrity management of dents, cracks, NDE and ILI performance were completed, and the results will be incorporated for improvements into industry recommended practices. Through round tables and brainstorming sessions as well as collaboration with other technical committees, the I&I TC also updated emerging integrity gaps and created meaningful roadmap projects and/or new ideas in each subcommittee, notably for improved SSWC inspection and management, hard spot detection and susceptibility, risk management, and non-intrusive/above-ground inspection of unpiggable or difficult-to-inspect pipelines.

Thanks to all the committee members for your passion, ideas, thoughts, discussions, active participation and strong support!”

David Xu

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