Inspection method
AssigneeFlexlife Limited
InventorsJohn Nicholas Marsden, Stuart Andrew Mitchell
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Abstract
A method of monitoring the condition of a flexible pipeline comprising the step of scanning the pipeline with an ultrasonic scanner to produce and/or record a signal indicative or the level of flooding within the annulus of the pipeline and/or indicative of the integrity of the layers of the pipeline.
Claims8
A method of monitoring the condition of a flexible pipeline comprising the steps of scanning the pipeline with an ultrasonic scanner and producing and/or recording a signal indicative of the level of flooding within the annulus of the pipeline and using the information provided from the signal to determine the level of flooding within the annulus and to identify a flooded section of the flexible pipeline.
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