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I’ve been writing lately about pipelines, pipeliners, and pipeline engineers.  And then I wrote about relevant Australian Standards related to pipelines.  Now I’m going to write about pipeline engineering competencies. 

Australian pipeliners are fortunate to have access to the Pipeline Engineering Competency System.  It was developed about 10 years ago, and, like Australian Standards, the system is reviewed and revised at regular intervals. 

Competency is the bedrock of any engineering or technical field.  With the (important) focus turning to non-technical skills (leadership, communication), it seems competence is just ‘expected’.  But we all have experiences where that was a flawed assumption.