The 22nd Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management Conference and Exhibition is once again set to take the world by storm – taking place at the Marriott Westchase Hotel, Houston, Texas, from 15–18 February 2010.

The premier Conference and Exhibition provides a forum dedicated exclusively to pigging for maintenance and inspection, as well as pipeline integrity evaluation and repair. It enables delegates to come face to face with the industry’s top professionals and create important and lasting contacts.

The 2010 event is expected to draw more than 1,000 participants including engineering management and field operating personnel from both transmission and distribution companies concerned with improved operations and integrity management.

The two-day technical programme, starting on 17 February, will feature ‘unpiggable pipelines’, new pigging tools and techniques, regulation, inspection, multi-diameter and bi-directional pigging, data interpretation and management, and much more.

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The Exhibition will run from 16–18 February, and showcase more than 70 companies’ products and services – providing the world’s largest specialised exhibition of pipeline pigging and related products and services.

Delegates will be able to talk to product and service providers directly to find out about the latest innovative solutions available.

Seven training courses will also be available from 15–16 February. These courses will cover:

* Pigging and in-line inspection * Pipeline risk management * Pipeline repair and in-service welding * Pipeline rehabilitation * Defect assessment in pipelines * Excavation inspection and applied non-destructive evaluation * USA Department of Transportation pipeline safety regulations.