The scope We have had an integrity engineering contract in place with BP since 2003. In addition to providing technical support to BP’s North Sea pipelines team for the UKCS, the support contract was extended to focus on two main areas in 2013. This included verication of tie-in activities for a new asset and subsequent changes to operational procedures, and corrosion protection (CP) refurbishment for an onshore terminal. Jee’s workplan Our team provided BP with design assurance for high friction pigs, including: Specication of the test rig components for onshore trials Attendance at the onshore pigging trials Data analysis of onshore trials Computer modelling of expected pig behaviour in the real pipeline system Completion of our best pigging practice checklists Following review of the

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