120 DEL
Onshore Pipeline Design
Onshore Pipeline Design Basics for Technical and Non-
Technical Management Professionals. - 2 days
2018
Major Benefits of Attending
• APPRECIATE the fundamentals of onshore Pipeline design
• BE MADE AWARE of innovative pipeline technologies.
• UNDERSTAND what is required to Engineer and design Pipelines.
• CONSIDER the construction and operation of pipelines and the impact on the design.
• ADDRESS the decisions to be made to arrive at a design for construction and operation.
• EVALUATE the Pipeline design variables.
• COMPARE the various Pipeline design codes and standards.
• LEARN the major elements of Pipeline Design.
Why you Should Attend? Who Should Attend?
Significant ‘engineering’ is required to This training is highly recommended for Managers and Engineers
design, build and operate a pipeline. involved in the following capacities:
Successful onshore pipeline ✓ Oil, Gas, Refined Products, LPGs, CO2 and other products Pipelines
businesses require personnel who ✓ Operations and maintenance of pipelines
appreciate the integrated ✓ Health, Safety and Environment
approaches to planning, design, ✓ Inspection
construction, operation, and asset ✓ Loss Prevention
integrity management. This intensive, ✓ Technical i.e. Mechanical and Piping Design
2-day foundation level course ✓ Production and Process
explores best practices for designing ✓ Project Planning
pipeline systems based on accepted ✓ Pipeline facilities (Fuel Storage/ Pumping/ Gas Compression)
International Codes , that maximize ✓ Regulatory approval and planning of pipelines
life cycle reliability and cost efficient, ✓ Environmental protection
whilst maintaining highest
environmental and safety standards. It is also crucial for personnel to have at least 3-5 years’ technical
This course is designed for participants experience within these industries:
requiring needing a broad ✓ Oil and Gas
understanding of pipeline design. ✓ Refining
Design and team exercises are an ✓ Chemical and Petrochemical
integral part of this course. ✓ Industrial Assets
Organised by:
WE SOLVE YOUR TRAINING NEEDS.
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► Workshop Overview
The ‘Aim’ of this course is to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and practical skills necessary to
participate in Pipeline design. The ‘Objectives’ by the end of the course you will be able to:
• Understand the fundamentals of Pipeline Design
• Have an understanding of pipeline standards
• Understand the importance of route selection and hydraulics for long term profitability and reliability
• Describe the importance of route selection and hydraulics for long term profitability, reliability, and safety
• Demonstrate good Pipeline design practices.
• Demonstrate engineering and design practical experience.
Outline
Day 1
SESSION 1 – PIPELINE DESIGN CODES AND STANDARDS SESSION 4 – OPTIMIZING PIPELINE SIZING &
• Design Codes and Standards: ASME B31.4 and CONFIGURATION
B31.8. ISO 13623, EN , IGE/TD/1, DNV, comparison • Basics on Hydraulic Design
and overview • Impact of Overpressure and Surge
• Setting the Pipeline Design Basis: data required for • Location of Block Valves and AGI Facilities
designing the pipeline… factors to be considered • Optimizing Pipeline Sizing: impact of diameter (and
pressure, temperature, yield strength, MAOP, wall thickness) v cost effective pumping / gas
compression and use of basic NPV model to arrive
at optimum design.
SESSION 2 – PIPELINE ROUTING
• Fundamentals in Pipeline Routing: optimising
routing, assessing pinch points, factors that Day 1 - CASE STUDIES:
influence routing, understanding impact on West Africa – Engineering and Design conceptual
construction. study for a gas pipeline network.
• Pipeline Location Classification: impact of
location, population and selection of design
factor.
• Techniques: mapping and use of GIS
• Defining Survey Requirements: what to specify
SESSION 3 – PIPELINE MECHANICAL DESIGN
• Design Factors: meaning of design factors,
selection, 0.72 Design Factor, inherent Safety
factors.
• Calculating Hoop (circumferential) and
Longitudinal Stresses in Pipelines: basic formulae
and limiting stresses and basic wall thickness
calculations, equivalent stress: Von Misses.
• Pipeline Material Plastic deformation; Failure
pressures, upheaval buckling, span calculations.
• Restricting the expansion; restraint by burial.
• Hydrotest Pressures; calculations for hydrotest.
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Outline
Day 2
SESSION 5 – PIPELINE DESIGN GROUND -
SESSION 8 – RELATED STANDARDS SPECIFICATIONS
GEOTECHNICAL INFORMATION.
AND DESIGNS
• Buoyancy forces and control (ground with high -Material Selection; importance of specifying
water table). appropriate material, manufacturing requirements
• Static, Live, Earthquake and Thermal Loads and coatings.
• Pipe Soil interaction; structural assessment. -Component Specifications; specification of valves,
Longitudinal ground movements, vertical uplift traps, barred tees, fittings and flanges, bends etc.
and downward bearing … -Design Drawings; standard details, crossing
schedules and alignment sheets.
• Burial types
-QRA and EIA; safety and environmental studies and
• Protection of Pipelines from Geotechnical hazards. impact on design.
-Tender Packages; what is required for a Concept/
FEED or EPC / Construction type contract, contracting
SESSION 6 – PIPELINE DESIGN CONSTRUCTABILITY approaches.
• Pipeline RoW (Right of Way) Design; types of
construction plant machinery and working width
• Pipeline Welding; Manual welding techniques,
Semi-Automatic welding techniques. Day 2 - CASE STUDIES: Based on an actual pipeline
• Trench Excavation and Backfill: practical issues, project: engineering papers of intent, evaluations for
equipment, what to do with poor ground,
scoping and preparing ITT proposal BOQ (Bill of
• Pipeline Coatings: coating systems, field joint Quantities), proposal construction methodology.
coating techniques
Technical bid evaluations, planning and scheduling
• Pipeline Crossings: basics for road, rail and the construction phase, contractor mobilisation, and
waterway crossings and construction techniques,
supervision, consideration of project risks
open cut/HDD/Auger Bore .
• Pipeline Testing and Pre-Commissioning: basics for
hydrotesting, gauging, swabbing, and handover;
intelligent PIG surveying, As-builts. CLOSE OUT
Summary of Design Methods
Key Aspects for Design Consideration
SESSION 7 – CATHODIC PROTECTION
• Principles of Cathodic Protection: electric current,
Anode, Cathode, materials.
• Application of Cathodic Protection: factors to be
considered – coatings, electrical continuity,
isolation.
• Practical Applications of Cathodic Protection:
identification of factors governing the corrosion
process, criteria for Cathodic protection of steel,
current density, determining Cathodic Protection program schedule
system type.
08:30 Registration
• Galvanic Anode System Design: determining 09:00 Morning Session Begins
anode parameters of type, weight and location. 10:40 - 11:00 Refreshments & Networking Break
12:45 Luncheon
• Impressed Current Anode System Design: soil 14:00 Afternoon Session begins
resistivity, power supply, remoteness, ease of 15:30 - 15:50 Refreshments & Networking Break
17:00 Course Ends
construction, land acquisition, ground bed type,
anode type, backfill. Design calculations, current
attenuation, transformer rectifiers, test posts,
special considerations.
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► Workshop facilitators
Robin Dargavel
Key Expert – Engineering, Construction and Maintenance Training
DARGAVEL ENGINEERING LIMITED
Robin Dargavel is a versatile and highly skilled, BEng (Hons) Degree Qualified Engineer - Project Manager,
Senior Facilities Engineer, Chief Surveyor, Consulting Engineer and founder at Dargavel Engineering Ltd.
Robin has over 25 year’s experience in Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Process and Nuclear Power Generation
industries. That experience includes Engineering, Project Management, Independent Expert Witness/
Adviser on Engineering Issues, positions with responsibility for the engineering, design, procurement,
construction, commissioning, and start-up of a variety of projects both in the UK and worldwide. In
recent years, Robin has been working extensively in Aberdeen, Scotland on North Sea offshore and
associated onshore assets as a consulting Senior Facilities Engineer for major oil and gas operators,
since returning to the U.K. after twenty years of working overseas for oil companies in mechanical/
process disciplines in Yemen, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, most of West Africa, Libya, Israel, Qatar, U.S.A. (and
others). Robin is an active member of an assortment of Engineering Institutes within the U.K.
Paul Trundle
Key Expert – Pipeline Engineering, Design and Construction
DARGAVEL ENGINEERING LIMITED
Paul Trundle is a renowned Senior Chartered pipeline engineer with over 40 years of experience in the
engineering design and construction of gas transmission systems worldwide. Paul has had extensive
experience in Moldovia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. He led the concept and FEED designs for the
Bulgarian Greece Interconnector project (Stara Zagora to Komitini), NABUCO project, Turkmenistan,
through Afghanistan into Pakistan. He advised the Georgian Government on pipeline design and
construction issues related to both the 46” diameter Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline and the 42”
diameter South Caucasus gas pipeline. Earlier roles included Project Manager and Construction manager
for various pipeline schemes from South America, Middle East and UK and Ireland.
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Andrew Band
Key Expert – Pipeline Engineering, Design and Construction
DARGAVEL ENGINEERING LIMITED
Andrew Band is a senior Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 30 years’ project management,
engineering and commercial experience in the oil and gas pipeline sector, facilities and process plant,
worldwide including leading roles for Penspen, Jacobs/BP and private developers. Particular expertise is
in leading the development and preparation for execution of pipeline infrastructure projects worldwide
including procurement, construction tendering, cost estimating, planning and procurement.
Experienced in;
• Pipeline Project Management • Pipeline and Plant start-up and shutdown
• Pipeline Feasibility Studies • Pipeline Inspections
• Pipeline Conceptual Studies
• Pipeline Engineering and Design
• Pipeline Construction
• Pipeline Operations and Maintenance.
• Storage Tank Engineering and Design
• Storage Tank Construction
• Storage Tank Operations and
Maintenance.
Industry Sectors Experience;
✓ Oil & Gas
✓ Fuel Storage and Distribution
✓ CO2
✓ Chemical & Petrochemical
✓ Renewable Energy
✓ Environmental
✓ Power Generation & Utilities
✓ Pipelines and Facilities
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► Professional Memberships: MMechE, MIPlantE, MIET, MIGasE, MWeldI,
MInstNDT, SOE, EWI
Industry Action Results
Oil and Gas - LNG Plant Developed a more efficient system to Highly effective reduction in
renew LNG Storage Tank Bund Plant Shutdown durations.
Pearlite.
Oil and Gas – Offshore Established a Maintenance Project Improved project efficiencies for
Production Costs Control Procedure. offshore production projects.
Oil and Gas - Pipelines Established an Evaluation system for Highly effective Technical Bid
Technical Bid Proposals. Evaluations.
Oil and Gas – Refinery Developed Oil Storage Tank Repair Improved repair efficiencies,
Engineering Procedures and Method reduced production shutdown.
Statements.
► Partial List of Clients
✓ BP
✓ Dietsmann
✓ DUSUP
✓ ENI
✓ Jacobs
✓ Lloyd’s Register
✓ Parsons Brinkerhoff
✓ Petronas
✓ Penspen
✓ Qatar Petroleum
✓ Saipem
✓ Shell Malaysia
✓ TOTAL
✓ Yemen LNG Company
✓ Zuetina Oil Company
► Testimonials
“Robin’s training on Pipeline Engineering and Design was extremely appreciated by my team, very
knowledgeable. “Vassia Tsopela, VSK Engineering Ltd.
“Robin’s method of training is from hands-on experience, specifically regarding pipeline engineering
and construction.” Daniel Delahaye, Consultant Pipeline Engineer, Delahaye Engineering Ltd.
“Dargavel Engineering’s experience and enthusiasm has both inspired us and informed us” Terrence
Bekoe, BOST, Ghana.
