PII is slated to inspect 22 sections of the Dampier-to-Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP), one of Western Australia’s key energy supply assets, in alliance its Australian alliance partner Contract Resources.
The inspection project will be conducted in April 2011 and will span 2,700km.
Meanwhile, APA Group has selected PII’s in-line technologies to inspect key portions of its network, in a national contract covering the five states of Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia.
Over an 18-month period, starting in February 2011, PII will inspect up to 30 sections of the pipeline network.
Due to the technical challenges presented by the varied range of APA’s pipeline diameters, PII’s newest generation of magnetic flux leakage (MFL) inspection technology, MagneScan was selected to perform inspection on all sections.
GE said that the newly awarded inspection projects represent a significant expansion of PII’s presence in the Australian oil and gas transportation sector.
