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COMPOSITES BREAK NEW above ground and buried gas pipelines
and pipework systems.
Following a brief introduction,
GROUND IN PIPE REPAIR a comprehensive summary of the
numerical analyses and full-scale
testing carried out at DNV GL’s
Spadeadam Testing & Research and
Ambergate test sites was provided,
together with an overview of the
series of environmental tests
completed to support the use of
composite repair systems on buried
pipeline systems.
The speakers then summarised the
procedures that had been developed
to ensure that the design, installation
and future in-service management of a
composite repair are implemented in a
controlled and consistent manner.
The event concluded with an
interesting case study covering a
IGEM HOUSE HOSTED THE EVENT project recently completed for Cadent,
selected to illustrate the full potential
By Dr Troy Swankie, DNV GL - Oil & Gas of the technology.
The objective of the repair was
IN MARCH, THE Midlands Section of a project recently completed for to mitigate the effects of crack-like
hosted an event at IGEM House on the Cadent, SGN, National Grid, Northern features on a bend over a canal, where
use of composite systems for the repair Gas Networks and Wales & West traditional options would have been
of pipelines and pipework. Utilities. The project aimed to verify prohibitively difficult to install.
I was joined by Stephanie Corless, the performance of composite systems The event was well attended and
from DNV GL, and Paul Hill, from for the repair of corrosion damage the delegates provided some good
TEAM Inc, to provide an overview affecting bends, reducers and tees on discussion throughout the event.

DEPLOYING HYDROGEN intricacies of both projects.

Both Sikander and Professor
Howe were presented with an IGEM
Flame, as is our customary symbol of
By Zenon Przybyszewski, North West Section Chair gratitude to those who so readily give
their time to expand the knowledge
A LIVELY MEETING of more than 50 equate to taking two to three million of others. We would like to thank
members from both the IGEM North cars off our roads and be a significant everyone who attended for making
West Section and the Yorkshire Gas reduction in carbon emissions. this a very successful event for both
Association saw two presentations on the The second presentation was IGEM North West Section and YGA.
gas industry’s hottest topic: hydrogen. by Professor Joe Howe, from the
The first was delivered by Cadent’s University of Chester. Professor Howe
Sikander Mahmood, who gave us an is Executive Director of the Thornton
overview and update of the current Energy Research Institute and he
trial taking place at Keele University, shared an outline of the institute’s
where researchers are blending 20 per research into proposals for the North
cent hydrogen with natural gas in a West industrial sector.
contained network. This covered not only hydrogen
To date, the trial has been a production, but also all the
success – so much so that the next supplementary activities such as fuel
stage of the HyDeploy trial, taking conversion, power generation and
place in Gateshead, will see blended carbon capture.
gas being trialled on a public gas There followed a lengthy and
network for the first time. enthusiastic question and answer
If a 20 per cent blend were to be session during which the presenters
rolled out across the country, it would and audience discussed in detail the LEFT TO RIGHT: IGEM NW CHAIR ZENON PRZYBYSZEWSKI, PROFESSOR
JOE HOWE, SIKANDER MAHMOOD AND YGA PRESIDENT PAUL MASON

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