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© xxx SAFER, SMARTER, GREENER Samarco pipeline specialist Ricardo Bruno Nébias Andrade has been with the company for 12 years, and initiated the systematic approach to pipeline integrity management. By 2005, when Samarco was starting to use in-line inspection tools they were relying on an Excel sheet to compile all the data for the 400 km long pipelines. The mine is at Germano, 30 km from the city of Mariana in the state of Minas Gerais in