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Inside the Pipe: Pigging, In-Line Inspection and Integrity Assessment
A two-hundred-and-ten-kilometre crude line's inspection report arrives as a spreadsheet with four hundred and twelve anomalies, one of them flagged red at sixty one percent wall loss, and integrity engineer Kwabena Asante must decide what to dig, what to leave and how far to trust the numbers. Episode one hundred and eight starts with the humble squealing pig and the pressurised traps that launch it, the wax, water and black powder it sweeps out, and the Carlsbad tragedy where cleaning pigs could not reach. Then the smart pigs: magnets that make metal loss leak, echoes that measure steel to a…
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