Oil and Gas Pipelines

The book covers the integrity of new and aging pipelines as affected by factors throughout the pipeline lifetime, ranging from design, manufacture, and welding to operation, inspection, monitoring, maintenance, and repair. Production and transmission pipelines, onshore and offshore, are included, along with pipelines transporting ethanol. It discusses also covers public safety, and environmental protection with breadth and depth of coverage that make the book a valuable source of information for all those concerned with pipeline technology.Along with updating the existing chapters in the book the new edition introduces 23 new chapters including an entire new section on digitalization of pipelines with chapters ranging from internet of thing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity. Additional chapters examine management of geohazards, knowledge- and data-driven external corrosion modeling, inspection of subsea pipelines, mechanical damage, inspection, internal corrosion monitoring, flaw assessment, integrity management of pipeline facilities, pipeline cleaning, the main forms of corrosion and corrosion control methods, oil spill cleanup, abandonment, and risk management. The book closes with several case histories with practical examples of solutions to complex problems related to pipeline integrity.