Today was SmartPipe, the world’s first oil and gas pipelines that wirelessly talks about his own condition, was launched.
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Journalist Torill Aamodt
Journalist Jote TOFTAKER
oil and gas industry is dependent on safe and stable pipelines to produce, but with pipes located at several thousand meters deep, it is difficult to monitor the pipe’s health.
Full of electronics
Ole Jørgen Knutsen from SINTEF project manager SmartPipe.
Photo: Gøril Pine / NRK
Ten years ago, the idea for the pipe to be better monitoring, it is called Smart Pipe and every 24 meter is full of electronics.
The invention is research environment at SINTEF, NTNU, several oil companies and a number of technology companies.
Monday, this was the world’s most advanced pipe lowered into the sea in Orkanger. If it is successful, it is a technological adventure that launched.
– I woke up very early and thought about everything that could go wrong, it is actually a lot, says Jørgen Ole Knutsen project manager from SINTEF.
125 km distance of 3000 meters
An oil pipeline can be up to 125 kilometers long and it is vital that oil producers have steel control condition. Today happens through carefully prescribed procedures while SmartPipe consecutively to report about their own condition.
the electronics should work needed energy. It is supplied from a battery pack that is attached around the pipe. The batteries are mounted inside the tubular steel that can withstand 3000 meters.
– The batteries have a life span of 25 years, says Trond Schjelderup who is a senior development engineer at Bredero Shaw.
Should be on the bottom half a year
200 meter long test tube to be lowered and seawater to be pumped in to accelerate corrosion. It should be at the bottom of six months of careful testing.
partners have spent millions of dollars on developing the advanced tube, but if it works as expected with the economic gain big in the future.
– We hope that there will be a market for a few hundred million, says project manager Jørgen Ole Knutsen.
– The batteries are inside these steel tubes have a lifespan of 25 years, says Trond Schjelderup who is a senior development engineer at Bredero Shaw.
Photo: Gøril Pine / NRK
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