Alireza Bahadori

Plant Piping Systems Pressure Testing

This chapter presents the essential requirements of pressure testing to be carried out on plant piping systems. Upon completion of piping systems and before commissioning, it should be pressure tested in order to prove the strength of the system, its tightness (absence of leaks), and the integrity of weldments and materials.

Welding of Transportation Pipeline

This chapter gives technical specifications and minimum requirements for welding of transportation pipeline and related facilities for use in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. This chapter covers the arc welding of butt, fillet, and socket welds in carbon and low-alloy steel for liquid and gas transmission pipelines and related facilities including pig traps. The welding may be carried out by a shielded metal arc welding, submerged arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, gas metal arc welding, or flux cored are welding process or combination of these processes using a manual, semiautomatic, or automatic welding technique or combination of these techniques. The welds may be produced by position or roll welding or by a combination of position and roll welding.

General Requirements for the Purchase of Pipes for Use in Oil and Gas Industries

This chapter gives technical specifications and general requirements for the purchase of steel line pipe for use in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries under nonsour as well as sour conditions. The purpose of this chapter is to provide pipe suitable for use in conveying gas and oil in both the oil and natural gas industries.

Construction Guidelines for Onshore Transportation Pipelines Applications

This chapter covers the requirements and works to be carried out for construction of gathering, flow lines, and transportation pipelines within oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. This chapter covers requirements to be observed by the Executor in clearing right-of-way and trenching operation in terrains containing natural rock, large boulders, or other materials that have to be removed by a blasting operation.

Welding of Plant Piping Systems

This chapter covers the minimum requirements for welding work to be carried out for installation of on-plot piping in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. This chapter relates to the requirements pertaining to welding techniques to be used, the qualification of a welder/welding operator, and welding procedures together with testing and recording involved. It also deals with inspection, testing, limit of acceptability, and heat treatment of production weld.

Strainers and Filters

This chapter covers general requirements for design material, fabrication, inspection, and tests of different types of strainers and filters mainly used in suction lines of pumps, compressors, and turbines in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. This chapter is intended to supplement purchase orders placed for strainers and filters.

Gaging, Cleaning, and Removing Liquids From Pipelines

This chapter covers essential technical requirements for design, manufacture, quality control, testing, and finishing of launching and receiving traps that should be installed in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Also, this chapter is intended to indicate the general and minimum requirement of pig launching and receiving traps. These requirements do not relieve the supplier of his full responsibility for design, fabrication, performance, and safety of the equipment.

Engineering Aspects for Plant Piping Systems

This chapter covers essential requirements for general aspects to be considered in the design of piping for oil, gas, and petrochemical plants that include, but are not limited to, the following: loading and unloading terminals, crude oil- and gas-gathering central facilities, process units, package equipment, pump house, and compressor stations (booster stations), tank farms, and oil/gas depots.

Corrosion in Pipelines and Piping Systems

This chapter covers an outline for the corrosion consideration in selection of materials used in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. The designers have to apply provisions of this chapter during the design stage of a system in order to avoid or minimize corrosion hazards technically, economically, and safely during the designed life of such systems. Today, there is a great deal of refinement in the availability of materials of construction, varying from metallic to nonmetallic. Also, there are a large number of factors to be taken into consideration when selecting a material for a given application. The essential topics are discussed in this chapter.

Piping Material Selection

This chapter contains piping material classes primarily developed for petroleum refineries and petrochemical plants installed onshore. It is also intended for use in onshore exploration and production facilities as well as booster stations as far as applicable.