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Pipelines are an integral part of the Oil and Gas infrastructure. Blade Energy is uniquely qualified to provide life cycle and reliability solutions based on the breadth of experience represented in the Blade Energy Pipeline Integrity Team.
Blade’s pipeline consulting staff has authored over 100 technical publications
demonstrating expertise in the following areas:
- Pipeline Defect Assessment
- Fracture Mechanics
- Stress Corrosion Cracking Management
- Structural Reliability
- Metallurgical Characterization and Failure Analysis
- Pipeline Flow Modeling and Corrosion Management
- Pipeline Integrity Planning and Regulatory Compliance
- Pipeline Integrity Training
The Blade Energy Partners Staff provides independent and unbiased expert opinions and options for pipeline operators in designing assessment and threat mitigation strategies aimed at optimizing performance and asset life.
Blade Energy Partners leverages their expertise in pipeline inspection technologies, advanced defect assessment methods, time dependent anomaly growth behavior, pipeline hydraulic operations and root cause failure analysis to help operators develop return to service strategies acceptable to regulators while recognizing the most effective economic choices available.
Blade has the experience of managing the following threats cost effectively and
safely:
- Stress Corrosion Cracking
- Fatigue Cracking
- Corrosion
- Dents/Wrinkles/Third Party Damage
- Incorrect Operations
- Geotechnical Loss of Ground Support
Blade Energy Partners’ consultants provide value to clients faced with designing response strategies for the following problems:
- Assessment
- Threat Assessment and Selection of Appropriate Inspection
Technologies
- Magnetic Flux Leakage In-Line Inspection Technologies
- Ultrasonic In-Inspection Technologies
- Hydrostatic Testing
- Integrity Evaluation to Understand Condition of Pipelines and
Justify Reinspection Interval
- Rehabilitation
- Response to Aging Pipelines Using Inspection and Mitigation
Strategies
- Return to Service
- Response to Pipelines Derated or Shut Down Due to Failure
Conditions
- Integrity Management Program (IMP)
- Baseline Assessment to Document Safety
- ILI Validation Sampling Program Design
- Dig Verification and ILI Performance Measurement
- Corrosion Growth Rate Determination
- Program Quality Audits
- Training Programs and Materials
Blade Energy Pipeline Team:
Ravi Krishnamurthy PhD, has over 18 years of experience in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry, especially in metallurgical engineering, fracture mechanics, sour service design, pipeline integrity and corrosion engineering. He is an expert in applications of in-line inspection to pipeline integrity. Ravi received his Ph.D in Materials Science from the University of Virginia.
David Lewis, PE, has over 27 years domestic and international experience in oil & gas exploration and production with substantial experience in the application of LRFD design to pipelines. Dave has a strong engineering background with experience in deepwater, big bore (mono bore) and high pressure – high temperature wells. He has a worldwide reputation in the areas of structural and advanced tubular mechanics.
Richard McNealy, PE Met Eng, has over 25 years of experience in metallurgical engineering relating to materials selection, failure analysis, mechanics and fabrication in pipelines and pressure vessels. Richard’s background is with companies such as Halliburton Services and GE Oil and Gas, PII Pipeline Solutions.
Ming Gao, Ph.D, Met Eng, has over 25 years of experience in application of Fracture Mechanics to complex engineering design and life assessment problems. More than 90 publications in the areas of Fracture Mechanics Structural Reliability and Failure Analysis. Ming has authored 24 publications in the area of Pipeline Integrity and Management of Pipeline Stress Corrosion Cracking.
Pablo Cazenave, Gas Engineer - Specialist, has over 16 years of professional experience in the Oil & Gas industry, with the last 9+ years specialized in Pipeline Integrity (ILI technologies, Fitness for Purpose/Service, Structural Pipeline Integrity, Risk Assessment, Pipeline Integrity Management, Corrosion Management, Crack Management and Rehabilitation programs). With excellent communication skills in both Spanish and English, Pablo plays a key role in Blade Energy business for Latin America.
Suri Suryanarayana Ph.D has over 18 years of experience and a strong reputation in advanced applied mechanics, casing and tubing design, tubular mechanics, well construction engineering, quantitative risk assessment, and probabilistic design approaches applied to tubular design.
Gopala Vinjamuri, Eng, is a consultant for Blade Energy Partners for regulatory matters relating to the USDOT gas and liquid pipeline integrity management rules for high consequence areas. Gopala has 16 years of experience with the USDOT Office of Pipeline Safety in Washington DC and prior to that worked as an engineer for Air Products.
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