TECHNICAL PROGRAM
April 8, 2024
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Telus World of Science
Address: 11211 142 Street NW
Transportation Method: None
April 9, 2024
OPENING ADDRESS & KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Location: Salon 12
- 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM - OPENING ADDRESS
Stephen Gibson
- 8:15 AM – 8:45 AM - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
The AMPP Transformation: A Mission Focused on Workforce Development, Core Sectors, and the Real Cost of Corrosion to Asset Owners, Alan Thomas, MBA (AMPP CEO)
Session 1A: Coatings 1
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 12
Session Chair: Matt Alliston
- 9:00 AM Insight Into Minimal Surface Preparation for Various Patch Repair Coating Products
Sherry Rao (A Plus Coating Solutions Inc.)
- 9:30 AM The Future of Coating industrial assets with Robots and AI Today!
Norman Spence (Confined Space Robotics)
- 10:00 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 10:30 AM Design environmentally friendly coating systems from different perspectives for metal protection
Jane Hall (Cloverdale Paint Inc.)
- 11:00 AM Sticky coating situations – Do old rules of thumb still apply?
Nicole De Varennes (Vision Integrity Engineering Ltd.)
- 11:30 AM Biofuel Feedstock and Finish products- Linings Case Study?
Ravi Nagarajan (Carboline Global Inc.)
Session 1B: Oilsands/Upstream/Refineries Corrosion 1
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 4
Session Chair: Len Krissa
- 9:00 AM Microbial Diagnostics and MIC Management Strategies - A Critical Update
Marc Demeter (OSP Microcheck)
- 9:30 AM An Overview of Corrosion Inhibitor Testing in the Laboratory
Frank Hornsby (Cormetrics 2 Ltd.)
- 10:00 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 10:30 AM Sour Frac Flowback Corrosion Management
Logan LaRocque (Baker Hughes)
- 11:00 AM Assessing The Susceptibility of Insulation Materials To IGSCC Under Hot And Wet Conditions
Yuan Li (InnoTech Alberta)
- 11:30 AM Forensic Investigation Of Corrosion Under Insulation From Rust Scale Sample
Ahmad RK Rana (Integrity Products & Supplies Inc.)
LUNCH
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Exhibit Hall
Session 2A: Coatings 2
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Salon 12
Session Chair: Dylan Bolch
- 1:30 PM Tank Relining: Chasing the Elephant out of the Room
Dr. Mike O’Donoghue (International Paint LLC.)
- 2:00 PM Myth busting: pipeline coatings edition
Harry Tsaprailis (Enbridge)
- 2:30 PM Can Tarp Application Protect Pipeline Coating FBE System 1A From UV Degradation?
Amal Al-Borno (Charter Coating Service (2000) Ltd.)
- 3:00 PM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 3:30 PM Mitigating & Working with Moisture-Related Challenges on Atmospheric Piping
Luke Sperry (Seal for Life)
- 4:00 PM The Surprising Effects of Heat, Water, and Insulation Design on ESCC of Carbon Steel Pipes
John Williams (Aspen Aerogels)
- 4:30 PM BIOFUEL TANK LINING- From Lab to The Field Journey
Ravi Nagarajan (Carboline Global Inc.)
Session 2B: Oilsands/Upstream/Refineries Corrosion 2
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Salon 4
Session Chair: Mill Jawed
- 1:30 PM Mitigation of Elemental Sulfur and Iron Sulfide Under-Deposit Corrosion
Nolan Miller (ChampionX)
- 2:00 PM Interaction of Circumferential Stress Corrosion Cracking and Active Ground Movement: a Geo-SCC Effect
James Ferguson (Stantec)
- 2:30 PM SCC Colony Crack Shielding Factors Determined Using FEA
Colin Scott (Northern Crescent Inc.)
- 3:00 PM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 3:30 PM Extending Turnaround Frequency of a 75+ year Old Facility from Annual to 3 years
Toby Antony (Gibson Energy)
- 4:00 PM Using Laser Scanning Creatively in a Plant Environment
Cameron Sjerve (IRISNDT)
- 4:30 PM Pitfalls with Risk-based Inspection (RBI) Methodology for Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) Management
Ahmad RK Rana (Integrity Products & Supplies Inc.)
STUDENT POSTER SESSION
Time: 3 PM – 5 PM
Location: Outside Exhibit Hall
TRADESHOW RECEPTION
Time: 5 PM – 7PM
Location: Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Location: Salon 12
- 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Announcements and Introduction
Kevin Sunderman, AMPP Alberta Conference Program Co-Chair
- 8:15 AM – 8:45 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Asset Integrity, Chris Johnson (ATCO Director Field and Service Operation)
Session 3A: Cathodic Protection 1
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 12
Session Chair: Mike Hogarth
- 9:00 AM Cathodic Protection Lessons Learned During Design and Commissioning of Three Pilot Solar Projects
Wolfgang Fieltsch (Stantec)
- 9:30 AM Overcoming Capacitive Effect on Interrupted Surveys with Next Generation Decouplers
Tim Bechtel (Dairyland Electrical Industries)
- 10:00 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 10:30 AM Groundbed Life Predictor
Mill Jawed (Mobiltex)
- 11:00 AM Case Study: Cathodic Protection of Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe with Deteriorated Mortar Coating
Jon Heaman (Stantec)
- 11:30 AM AC Mitigation Design Considerations for Pipeline Facilities
Hycem Bahgat (Corrosion Service)
Session 3B: Corrosion Prevention 1
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 4
Session Chair: Mike Mosher
- 9:00 AM Locating Stuck Pig with XLI PWA
Morgan Dormaar (PureHM Inc.)
- 9:30 AM Case Study: Effective ILI Verification of Internal Corrosion
Bala Ganapathy (Gibson Energy) & Mike Niosi (Onstream Pipeline Inspection)
- 10:00 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 10:30 AM Corrosion Assessment of Fe-based Alloys in Brine Water under Supercritical CO2
Haofei Sun (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Alberta)
- 11:00 AM Pipeline Circumferential Cracking in Near-Neutral pH Environment Under the Influence of Residual Stress: Dormancy and Crack Initiation
Hamed Shirazi (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta)
- 11:30 AM Risk Matrix Harmonization
Daniel Fujinaga (C-FER Technologies)
LUNCH
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Exhibit Hall
Session 4A: Cathodic Protection 2
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: Salon 12
Session Chair: Nariman Eshghabadi
- 1:30 PM Comparison of Standards on Cathodic Disbondment Tests: Where are we and What needs to change?
Sankara Papavinasam (CorrMagnet Consulting Inc.)
- 2:00 PM Cathodic Protection Coupon Interpretation in Multiple Pipeline Corridors
Daniel Fingas (Corrosion Service Company Ltd.)
- 2:30 PM Innovative Mitigation Strategies to Address AC Corrosion Risk at Higher Frequencies
Wolfgang Fieltsch (Stantec)
- 3:00 PM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 3:30 PM Smart Pipes, Smarter Workers: Exploring the Benefits of Monitoring Beyond Rectifier in Cathodic Protection
Mill Jawed (Mobiltex)
- 4:00 PM Application of Digital Twin for Anode Groundbed Lifetime Prediction and Replacement Forecast
Hamid Zebardast (Elysca)
- 4:30 PM Best Practices From 10 Years of AC Mitigation Commissioning
Brenden Tanchuk (Corrosion Service Company Ltd.)
- 5:00 PM Cathodic Protection of 50' Hot Thickener Tank
Vignesh Gopal (Corrpro)
Session 4B: Corrosion Prevention 2
Time: 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Salon 4
Session Chair: James Ferguson
- 1:30 PM Detecting Leaks in Purged Pipelines
Cory Solyom (PureHM Inc.)
- 2:00 PM ILI Validation – Overview and Case Studies
Laurence Kuan (IRISNDT)
- 2:30 PM Advanced Permanent Remote Pig Tracking
Greg Zinter (PureHM Inc.)
- 3:00 PM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 3:30 PM Advancements in Direct Assessment with the Non-Contact Magnetic Gradient Tomography Method (MTM-G)
Chukwuma Onuoha (Canchuks Corrosion Inc.)
- 4:00 PM Digital Transformation for Corrosion Management
Joel Chapman (Antea)
- 4:30 PM Managing Internal Current Transfer Concerns within an overall Pipeline IMP
Bob Prieston (Explore)
- 5:00 PM Automated Pigging for MIC
Rusty Hurl (WeldFit)
Brewery Mixer
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Campio Brewing Co.
Address: 10257 105 Street NW
Transportation Method: None
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Session 5A: Asset Management
Time: 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 4
Session Chair: Holly Gibson
- 8:30 AM Revolutionizing Pipeline Integrity Management: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)”
Richard Adigwe (Abadata)
- 9:00 AM Management of Geohazards Concerns on Pipelines
Cole Szakacs (Explore)
- 9:30 AM The Interaction of Geohazards and Corrosion on Pipeline Integrity
Damian McClarty (Thurbur Engineering Ltd.)
- 10:00 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
- 10:30 AM Explainability in Artificial Intelligence Leak Detection Systems
Josmar Cristello (Northern Crescent Inc.)
- 11:00 AM lloT and Advanced Technology to Unlock Predictive Corrosion Management
Floyd Baker (Antea)
- 11:30 AM Interacting Threats Involving Pipeline Integrity Processes and Geohazards
Pete Barlow (BGC engineering Inc.)
Session 5B: Industry Emerging Energy Technologies
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: Salon 12
Session Chair: Kevin Sunderman
- 8:30 AM Coating the Way to a Hydrogen Economy: Challenges Ahead
Amal Al-Borno (Charter Coating Service (2000) Ltd.)
- 9:00 AM Feasibility of Hydrogen Transportation in Existing Pipelines
Josmar Cristello (Northern Crescent Inc.)
- 9:30 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
Session 6: Panel Discussion: Ensuring Qualified Coating Application Companies
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 12
Session Chair: Harry Tsaprailis
- Supply chain management practices include considerations of risk when qualifying vendors for the purchase of assets (e.g., valves, compressors, fitting, etc.) and services (e.g., coating, welding, non-destructive examination, etc.). For coating contractors, AMPP offers the Quality Procedures (QP) Programs that provides tremendous benefits to specifying asset and facility owners as well as industrial and architectural coatings contractors. The program provides clearly defined standards and access to more high-quality jobs for contractors and risk reduction and recourse for asset owners. Many asset owners use the QP Program for pre-qualification as all QP accredited contractors must meet the same rigorous quality standards and undergo the QP field audit process.
- During this panel discussion, an overview of AMPP QP programs will be presented along with testimonials from qualified contractors and end-users, along with current requirements from other operators.
- • “QP for Coating Contractors” – Dave Evans (AMPP)
- • “Feedback from An Operator that Requires QP Programs” – TBD
- • “Feedback from a QP Contractor” - Garry Claypool (Park Derochie, Inc.)
- • “Pre-qualification Requirements By Other Operators” – Alex Findlay (Enbridge Pipelines)
- The session will conclude with an open discussion with the attendees.
LUNCH
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Exhibit Hall
