In the fast-paced world of pipeline integrity, innovation and safety are paramount to achieving operational success. Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by GPT Industries, where we explore how advancements in isolation gasket technology are transforming pipeline operations in the Middle East.

Our speaker will provide valuable insights on how GPT Industries is addressing key challenges like corrosion, extreme environmental conditions, and the demand for sustainability. You’ll learn how innovative gasket designs are enhancing pipeline reliability, improving safety, and supporting the energy transition toward hydrogen.

Key Insights:

• Combatting Pipeline Corrosion: Learn how modern isolation technology is tackling corrosion in pipelines.
• Supporting Emerging Energy Markets: Discover how isolation gaskets are adapting to the demands of new energy sectors such as hydrogen in the Middle East.
• Field Lessons: Explore case studies on addressing regional challenges like extreme temperatures, chemical exposure, and high-pressure environments.
• Reducing Emissions: Understand how new sealing technologies help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support sustainability.
• Best Practices: Gain tips and lessons learned from troubleshooting complex pipeline issues across diverse environments.

As global energy demands surge and HVAC transmission capacities increase through reconductoring and other advancements, the integrity of buried metallic pipelines faces significant threats. Induced alternating current (AC) and high direct current (DC) potentials in pipelines—often caused by proximity to high-voltage power lines—pose complex challenges to cathodic protection systems and pipeline coatings. These currents can lead to coating degradation phenomena such as undercutting, shielding, pH changes, and accelerated corrosion, compromising long-term pipeline integrity.

This presentation will address:

• The mechanisms through which AC and high DC potentials interact with pipeline coatings and cathodic protection systems, leading to coating disbondment, accelerated corrosion, and hydrogen embrittlement.

• The detrimental effects of AC-induced corrosion, which can result in rapid localized damage and through-wall failures in as little as six months, and the exacerbating role of modern reconductoring techniques, which double HVAC transmission capacities without the need for new infrastructure or permits.

• The critical need for regulatory and industry collaboration in establishing more comprehensive communication and monitoring practices between HVAC and pipeline operators, particularly in shared rights-of-way corridors. Effective collaboration can mitigate unforeseen risks posed by increased transmission loads that pipeline operators may not have been made aware of.

As global energy demands rise, so do the challenges for pipeline engineers. Electrical grids impact pipelines through induced and/or stray currents—for pipeline stewards, monitoring and understanding these currents is crucial. This webcast will introduce a unique monitoring solution for detecting and analyzing AC and DC on pipelines. Stay ahead and be “in the know” with a new era in monitoring solutions.

In this webcast, you will:

• Understand the fundamental differences between AC and DC signals and their impact on cathodic protection systems;
• Understand how the impact of growing energy demands on future energy grids and how this translates to challenges for pipeline engineers through induced and/or stray currents;
• Differentiate between true AC signals and DC with ripples, and their respective effects on pipeline corrosion processes;
• Identify common sources of AC and DC interference on buried pipelines, including induction from HVAC systems and direct shorts;
• Discover the latest advancements in remote monitoring solutions for detecting and analyzing AC and DC interference.
• Learn strategies to optimize cathodic protection systems by proactively monitoring and mitigating AC and DC interference.

Water pipeline operators are facing increasing challenges in meeting the demands of a growing population and climate change. One of the most important challenges is preventing leaks and ensuring the longevity of water pipelines.

In this webcast, attendees will learn the latest advances in water pipeline isolation and sealing technology, along with the latest sealing options and considerations for water pipelines.

Register today to learn how to optimize your water lines for the life of the system and save money on operating costs. Topics include:

- Selecting, installing, and designing the right isolation gasket for your water pipeline, and specific challenges to consider for large diameter pipelines;
- Using a flange isolation kit, and the impact of water absorption and permeation on isolation gaskets;
- Avoiding the costly consequences of mis-installation, gasket failure, corrosion, and leaks.
- How typical red rubber gaskets and soft cut gasket materials fail and degrade over time.
- The need for localized sealing elements and pressure activated sealing.
- The importance of selecting the correct bolts.
- How to ensure the correct gasket and kit dimensional designs are provided.

In this edition we will explore Offshore Applications, the challenges and considerations when sealing and isolating.

New offshore projects and production have seen a resurgence across the globe with significant investments being seen in all areas of offshore production and transportation. Ensuring new and existing infrastructure are performing optimally is a vital component for operators to keep pace with the increasing demands of today and in the future.

Offshore applications are notoriously challenging and can result in very costly shutdowns. Environmental factors, extreme temperatures & pressures ratings, sour media, stringent regulations, the lack of physical space and fire concerns are a constant factor amplified by a shortage of maintenance cycles and the need to ensure safety is of paramount importance.

In this webinar, we will investigate the effect these challenges have on corrosion mitigation and sealing integrity. Through real world examples, detailed research and extensive experience we will navigate you through how to avoid the most common pitfalls and offer the optimum solutions and guidance.

In this webcast you will learn:
- A review of the challenges faced in offshore environments and how to overcome these challenges
- Sealing considerations such as RTJ flanges, Limited sealing stresses, corrosive medias, and seal tightness
- A look at the different types of offshore applications such as LNG, FPSO, Splash zones, Subsea and Offshore rigs.
- How to avoid using expensive exotic metals while factoring in fire safe gasketing

We will be offering Professional Development Hours training certificates for those participants who complete the educational webinar.

In the battle to reduce emissions globally, operators are looking at new ways they can diversify their energy portfolios and reduce the impact of traditional methods of energy production. The adoption of Hydrogen is now at the forefront of the new energy mix and has been accelerated considerably in recent years.

The urgency to diversify has led to engineers across multiple industries to seek and understand the potential hazards, issues, and considerations this new energy source brings. In this webcast, we explore the role of sealing and flange isolation on pipeline infrastructure, a critical component in making Hydrogen a viable energy source for the future.

Expect to Learn:

• What challenges does Hydrogen pose on pipeline infrastructure?
• A review of sealing solutions & designs currently being offered to the Hydrogen market
• What do you need to consider when using a seal in a Hydrogen application?
• Chemical compatibility – What do you need to know?
• Safety first – no risk, a calculated risk, or a risk too far?
• The need for greater regulations and testing within the Hydrogen industry

Pipeline corrosion professionals within the Middle East must navigate various challenges that were once a minor inconvenience, and have now become an everyday concern. Increase in chemicals in pipeline, the use of steam, increased pressures and temperatures, fire safety, sour gas and emissions are all currently at the forefront of industry professionals' minds. In this webcast, we will explore the resultant effects these challenges have on corrosion prevention, in particular the effects on Electrical Isolation Kits and how to overcome these challenges.

In this webcast, we will be addressing;

• How to seal, protect and isolate flanges of pipelines in severe corrosive conditions without a need of using exotic materials
• Harsher Media Conditions: Including Sour Gas, Steam, CO2, CO, Ammonia, and more. Results of this include Electrical Bridging, Permeation, Material Degradation, Higher Corrosion.
• Higher Pressures and Temperatures: Material must be compatible with increased ranges of pressures and temperatures.
• New Markets: LNG, EOR, CCUS, Hydrogen, Natural Gas all provide unique challenges
• Great Focus on GHG Reductions: Increase in regulation, Emission Focus
• Traditional Challenges: Installation, Ring Type Joint Corrosion, Permeation, Material Selection, Safety, and more.

Protecting pipelines from corrosion while ensuring they are leak free, safe and comply with industry standards and regulations, has never been more challenging.

Pipeline corrosion professionals in 2022 must navigate various challenges that were once a minor inconvenience, and have now become an everyday concern. Increase in chemicals in pipeline, the use of steam, increased pressures and temperatures, fire safety, sour gas and emissions are all currently at the forefront of industry professionals' minds.

In this webcast, we will explore the resultant effects these challenges have on corrosion prevention, in particular the effects on Electrical Isolation Kits and how to overcome these challenges.

In this webcast, we will be addressing;

• Harsher Media Conditions: Including Sour Gas, Steam, CO2, CO, Ammonia, and more. Results of this include Electrical Bridging, Permeation, Material Degradation, Higher Corrosion.

• Higher Pressures and Temperatures: Material must be compatible with increased ranges of pressures and temperatures.

• New Markets: LNG, EOR, CCUS, Hydrogen, Natural Gas all provide unique challenges

• Great Focus on GHG Reductions: Increase in regulation, Emission Focus

• Traditional Challenges: Installation, Ring Type Joint Corrosion, Permeation, Material Selection, Safety, and more.

We will be offering Professional Development Hours training certificates for those participants who complete the educational webinar.

If you are unable to make the live recording just register anyway and we will send you a copy of the recording.

Join the GPT engineering group for a Water industry special. In this educational webinar, we will be exploring Isolation and sealing within the Water industry delving into the most common issues that arise and navigating you through the solutions. Preventing leakages while maintaining isolation brings additional complications for users to focus on. This coupled with the sheer scale of water pipeline applications only magnifies the issues and difficulties encountered. Water absorption and permeation are also critical factors that need to be accounted for which can be often overlooked. Through our extensive history of supporting the water industry, we have learned valuable insights that we look forward to sharing.

Expect to Learn:

• When selecting the right isolation gasket, how can you ensure that the gasket chosen is designed to meet the increased demands? This will take you through some specific challenges that GPT sees in large diameter pipelines, and best practices to ensure that proper sealing is made, and isolation is maintained.
• The impact water absorption and permeation have on Isolation Gaskets. When trying to isolate a flange, how come it is critical to use a flange isolation kit, not simply a sheet gasket? Why is it so common to see isolation flanges hydrotested with a temporary gasket, and then have the isolation gasket put in after? Both of these have to do with the impact of water permeating into the gasket itself, and impacting its ability to perform as intended. We will discuss why this is occurring when you need to be aware of this, and solutions that can be used as a result.
• The cost of mis-installation, gasket failure, corrosion costs, or leaks can be significantly higher. In this webinar, we will touch on many ways to help mitigate these failures and optimize your water lines for the life of the system. While the capital cost might be slightly higher to use an isolation gasket and use it properly, this can significantly lower operating costs due to these failures taking place.