[ Onshore Pipeline Design ]

Hydraulics, design basis, route selection, location classification, SMS, MAOP, stress analysis, low temperature design, welding, fatigue, pipe specification, HDD, buoyancy control, corrosion mitigation, alignment sheets, GIS, instrumentation and control systems, SCADA, procurement support, hydrotesting…

The pipeline engineering competency system (PECS), which we are journeying through during this August, lists 33 dot-points for the pipeline design engineer to “know”. 

The PECS already has 240 competencies to it, and the one for pipeline design lists another 33.  It’s clear that a pipeline design engineer needs to know a lot!  And yet, it seems there’s no one clear place to find that knowledge.