A direct APPROACH

摘要

Shamus McDonnell, PureHM (formerly Hunter McDonnell Pipeline Services), Canada, discusses integrity management: how direct assessment is improving pipeline inspection. Oil and gas pipelines have been around for well over a century, and some of the earliest constructed are still in service today. Although early pipelines were made of wood - and in the past few decades plastics and composite materials, which have increased in popularity - the vast majority of pipelines in service today are constructed with steel.