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MAATS SR716
welding tractor:
CONNECTING
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Volume20Number3 -March2020
WORLD PIPELINES
| VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 3 | MARCH 2020
Maats Pipeline Professionals supplies a wide variety of specialised construction machinery
for rental and for sale, such as pipelayers, welding tractors, bending machines, and equipment
for pipeline construction as well as maintenance and repair.
As a manufacturer, Maats produces high-quality pipeline equipment under its own label. This
label consists of a range of heavy-duty bending machines and sets, pipelayers, welding
tractors, roller cradles, C-cradles, and a variety of custom-tailored equipment.
On the cover is the new Maats SR716 welding tractor – another result of delivering strength,
performance and reliability under all circumstances.
03.
Editor's comment
Borders can be breakable.
05.
Pipeline news
With updates on Trans Mountain, the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria gas
pipeline, and recent business acquisitions.
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T
he contrastingpolitical fortunes that befell
CentralAsia and India in 2019 could have an impact
on their respectiveoil industries in the coming
decade.CentralAsia enjoyed a relativelypeaceful
year, largelydue to improved inter-state relations between
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
andAzerbaijan, and their evolving tieswithRussia andChina.
A new generationof leaders is now in chargeof the region,
having takenover from the batch that led these countries
from birth following the break-upof the SovietUnion in 1991.
WithRussia’s acquiescence, energy-hungryChina continues
to expand influence and trade in the region throughoil and
gas ties, and itsUS$1 trillion ‘Belt andRoad’ initiative to link up
the economiesofCentralAsia, theMiddle East, Europe, and
NgWengHoong investigates the contrasting fortunes ofCentralAsia and India, and
what this couldmean for their respective oil and gas industries as they head into the
new decade.
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INTELLIGENT PIGS
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The brains and the brawn
Dane Burden, T.D. Williamson, USA.
63.
Not an inch of pipe unseen
Ries Augustijn, João Gonçalves, and Joost Haaksman, Intero Integrity B.V., the
Netherlands.
69.
Protection by inspection
Aaron Crowder, ENTEGRA, USA.
INSPECTION
74.
Monitoring on the move
Dominic Giguère, Zetec, Canada.
PIPELINE CORROSION
79.
Taking a new approach
Marlane Rodriguez and Keith Nevils, Corrpro, USA.
VALVES AND PUMPS
85.
The power of retrofits
David Brennan, Severn Unival, part of the Severn Glocon Group, UK.
COMPRESSOR TECHNOLOGY
89.
Stack up the layers
Gautam Chhibber, Steffen Jahrmarcht, and Scott Tackett, Siemens, USA.
SCADA SYSTEMS
93.
An eye for architecture
Mike Corrieri, Rockwell Automation, USA.
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REGIONAL REPORT: CENTRAL ASIA & INDIA
12.
Growing at a different pace
Ng Weng Hoong investigates the contrasting fortunes of Central Asia and
India, and what this could mean for their respective oil and gas industries as
they head into the new decade.
KEYNOTE
17.
Destination: a gas economy
Manish Vaid, Observer Research Foundation, and Suvendu Mohapatra, Reliance
Industries Ltd, India.
DEEPWATER PIPELINE ENGINEERING
22.
A journey across the Arabian Sea
Chas Spradbery, Peritus International, UK.
29.
Better together
Alasdair Cowie, Cortez Subsea Limited, Scotland.
COVER STORY
32.
Rent-A-Fleet
Paul Waanders, Maats, the Netherlands.
39.
Heavy Equipment Review
World Pipelines'
third annual heavy
equipment focus, featuring 15 companies.
Monitoring
on the
move
DominicGiguère,Zetec,Canada,
examinesdevelopments inultrasonic
testing designed to aid both critical
and non-critical inspections.
I
mprovements in non-destructive testing
technology, and particularly the software and
processing power of off-the-shelf, portable
phased array ultrasonic testing (UT) instruments,
mean that internal pipeline corrosion,while serious,
does not have to be the hidden threat that itwas
even just a few years ago.
The latest generation of phased array UT
instruments gives technicians a range ofmethods
they can use tomonitor andmapmaterial thickness
in pipes,welds, and valve components, including
time of flight diffraction (TOFD) and advanced
data-processing algorithms such as the total
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