Pipeline Services

Bell-Hole Inspection

This SI course provides field inspection staff with the principles of Bell-Hole Inspection and flaw assessment for buried pipelines. The course includes how to perform and document bell-hole inspections; significant pipeline features related to pipe manufacturing, construction, and maintenance practices; features of in-service damage; and an introduction to flaw assessment. An optional half-day presentation offers hands-on time with pit-depth gauges, profile gauges, and other flaw-measurement tools, as well as practice using common remaining-strength calculation methods.
Duration: 1-day course
Instructor: Andy Jensen
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About the Instructor

Andy Jensen has worked for over 12 years as a corrosion control professional solving problems in oil, gas and pipeline environments. He has had significant involvement in recent years at all levels with the implementation, testing, and documentation of pipeline integrity assessment and management programs (ECDA). Andy is proficient with test equipment, computers, monitoring techniques, data evaluation, failure analysis, report preparation and the presentation of information contained therein. He has performed and trained personnel in survey techniques such as Pipe Current Mapper, Close Interval Pipe-to-Soil Potential, Direct Current Voltage Gradient, Soil Resistivity, Bellhole Inspections, Pipeline Location, Short Locating, Casing Testing, Rectifier Maintenance and Troubleshooting, and Pipeline Right-of-Way Topographical Studies. Andy has been the leader in GIS development and data integration since the first applications of ECDA and NACE RP-0502. Andy has a physics degree and specializes in the areas of ECDA and Corrosion Control.

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