Inspectioneering^TM Journal

· 2007 Index Summary

The following copyright protected listing of past articles and summaries is provided as a value-added service/reference for subscribers to the Inspectioneering^TM Journal (“IJ”).

Regular columns:

Ø Every “IJ” contains the “IJ” Activities Planner, a world-wide listing of upcoming events of interest to the Inspectioneer^TM. Helpful keys are provided to alert the reader to intended to topics, e.g. FFS (fitness for service), NDE (nondestructive evaluation), RI (regulatory issues), RBI (risk based inspection), etc. Digital subscribers have a choice to visit hosts’ sites or send e-mails where links are provided. This will start in 1998.

Ø Letters to the Editor, A place to pose questions, voice critiques and offer solutions to the editors and readership.

· JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2007

Ninety-Nine “Diseases” of Pressure Equipment – Part 14

By: John T. Reynolds, Shell Global Solutions (US), Inc.

Key words: Brittle fracture, brittle to ductile transition, critical flaws, FFS, toughness, MDMT (minimum design metal temperature), MOC, RBI, IOW, and API 510

NACE MRO175/ISO 15156

Key words: H2S, hydrogen sulfide, oil and gas production, materials

NACE Releases New documents

Key words: Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC), buried pipelines, anodes, inspection requirements, offshore, pipe, refined

API 510 & 570 Codes Update

United States Chemical Safety Board Releases Findings and Recommendations Related to Chlorine Release

Key words: chlorine, heat exchanger tube. Remote flied eddy current testing, RFEC, steel, inspection

CEN Adopts ISO 15156

Key words: CEN, European Committee for Standardization, hydrogen sulfide, H2S, petroleum, natural gas, materials, NACE MRO175

Ballot Item Approved for MRO103-2005

Key words: materials, sulfide stress cracking, corrosive petroleum environments, wrought, cast, duplex stainless steel, PREN, hardness limits, quenching, tubing, ferrite content

NACE Changes Recommended Practices to Standard Practices

Key words: standard, recommended practice, recommended, requirement

WRC/EUROWELD Conference Stainless, Duplex, High Alloys Welding Answers

Key words: welding, high alloy materials, duplex, nickel-base, ferrit, fissuring, pitting, overlay

· March / April 2007

Ninety-Nine “Diseases” of Pressure Equipment – Part 15

By: John T. Reynolds, Shell Global Solutions (US), Inc.

Call For Papers

10^TH Annual International Conference on Aboveground Storage Tanks

CSB Conducting a Full Investigation Valero McKee Refinery Fire

Key words: freeze points, valves

CSB Calls for Increased Oversight of Refining Industry by OSHA

Risk-Based Inspection How Healthy is Your RBI Program?

Editorial by: Greg Alvarado, “IJ” Chief Editor

Key words: RBI, risked-based inspection, fitness for service, FFS, NDE, confidence, reliability, API, 570, 510, RP 580 BRD 581, EC, AET, eddy current, acoustic emission, API 571, damage mechanisms, ASME, CEN, uncertainty

· May / June 2007

New From API - API Technical Report 939-D, Second Edition, Stress Corrosion Cracking of Carbon Steel in Fuel Grade Ethanol: Review, experience Survey, Field Monitoring, and Laboratory Testing

Inspection of heat Exchanger, condenser & Fin Fan coolers Tubes – An Update

By: Brian Beresford, TechCorr Inspection & Engineering, Houston, TX

Key words: ferro-magnetic, non-ferro-magnetic, eddy current, remote field eddy current, laser profilometry, internal rotary inspection system (IRIS), baffle, tubesheet, externally referenced electromagnetic technique, fin tubes, accuracy, austenitic, ferritic, cleanliness

Risk-Based inspection Utilizing Metrics maximizing the Value – Part 2

Editorial Br: Greg Alvarado, “IJ” Chief Editor

Key words: risk-based inspection (RBI), fitness for service, risk in sq.’ per year, risk is dynamic, relative risk, consistency, probability of failure, likelihood of failure, generic failure frequency, damage factor, RCA, FMEA

Why Some Operating Sites “Just Don’t Get It”

By: John T. Reynolds, PEI Consultant

Key words: Mechanical integrity, management, fixed equipment reliability programs

· July / August 2007

The New Age of Pipeline Inspection

By: Paul Jackson General Manager, Plant Integrity LTD, and Tat-Hean Gan

Manager, TWI LTD

3^rd NDT & Corrosion Management Asia Conference & Exhibition

Assessment of Pipe Wall Thickness Radiation Technique

By: Sanjoy Das, P.R. Vaidya and B.K. Shah, Quality Assurance Division

Bhabha Atomic research Centre, Mumbai, India

Key words: Condition monitoring, Tangential radiography, Radiometry

API Storage Tank Conference and Safe Tank Entry Workshop

API Storage Tank Conference

API Safe Tank Entry Workshop

API/NPRA Fall Operating Practices Sysposium

4^th Middle East Nondestructive Testing Conference & Exhibition 2007

European Symposium on Pressure Equipment

· September / October 2007

Detection of Small Leaks in Liquid Pipelines: Gap Study Analysis of Available Methods

Key words: Pipeline, leak, small, detection methods, Ofice of Pipeline Safety, gap analysis, communities, alarms

New Joint Standard API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 Now Available

Where Do I Set My Risk Threshold?

By: Greg Alvarado, IJ Chief Editor

Key words: Risk, target, threshold, generic failure frequency, metric, probability of failure

Don’t Overlook the Value

Key words: Piping, TML,CML. RBI. Inspection database management systems, material operating envelopes, corrosion circuits, corrosion systems, dissimilar metals, welds, filler metals, TEMA, u-bends, autogenous, hydrotest, cryogenic piping, brittle fracture, minimum design metal temperature, pneumatic

API RBI software User Group to Host Roundtable on Risk Targets

What’s New with API/ASME In-service Inspection Standard?

By: John Reynolds

Pressure Equipment Integrity Consultant

In Memory of John Dunlop McMillan 1945-2007

Failures 2008 – An International Symposium on Risk, Economy and Safety, Failure Minimization and Analysis

· November / December 2007

Information – Gathering Session on SP0169 (formerly RP0169)

North Sea Accident - Workers in an Enclosed Space

Importance of Data Management and Availability to Produce an Effective Inspection Program

By: Mark Vining

Inspection Supervisor

Sunoco Inc.

Philadelphia Refinery

Risk Based Inspection - The Regulatory Acceptance Process

Editorial by Greg Alvarado, Inspectioneering Journal Chief Editor

12^th Annual IPEIA Conference

Update on the New API/ASME In-service inspection Joint Code Committee (ISIJC)

By: Clay Rodery, BP Fixed Equipment Technical authority and Chairman of the ISIJC Committee

John Reynolds, Pressure Equipment Integrity Consultant and master Editor for the ISIJC