Harvey Haines
Senior Pipeline Specialist
Kiefner & Associates, Inc.

Education

B.S., Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Qualifications

Mr. Haines rejoined Kiefner and Associates, Inc. in 2002 and again in 2006 after 15 months at the Pipeline Research Council International. Currently, he manages an operational reliability assessment, and has addressed a corrective action order, evaluated pipelines with various defects, evaluated US DOT gas incident statistics, and helped manage the validation of direct assessment for PRCI.
At PRCI he assisted two committees in placing their research programs, the Design, Materials and Construction Committee and the Underground Storage Committee. This included research programs on welding, damage prevention, and strain based design, and improving integrity and performance of storage reservoirs.
At GRI he developed and managed R&D programs to improve NDE measurements of pipeline steels. During the last 7 years this involved assessing the cause of pipeline failures and developing methods to detect these anomalies before failure. Projects included finding and assessing: third-party damage, corrosion, stress-corrosion cracking, disbonded coating, weld defects, and stress to a pipeline. Results of the R&D were a better understanding of capabilities and limitations of NDE techniques including in-line-inspection tools and in-the-ditch measurements. The R&D resulted in improved technologies to better characterize defects such as corrosion and find more types of defects such as mechanical damage and cracking.

Relevant Experience

Defect Assessment:
Managed research to better understand failure mechanisms such as mechanical damage and stress-corrosion cracking. For stress-corrosion cracking, this included development of a model for understanding accelerated testing of SCC.

Integrity Evaluation:
Determined dependability of pipelines based on operational history, maintenance, and inspection records along with physical testing and statistical evaluation of sample sets of pipeline material.

Direct Assessment:
Managed the PRCI-GRI effort to Validate ECDA and ICDA as effective integrity assessment techniques during 2003-2004.

  • Managed several programs to validate ECDA and help operators perform ECDA once it became an accepted alternative technique, this included collecting 10 data sets for 9 different pipelines, development of a guideline for performing ECDA, and testing a quantitative method for calculating probably of failure for ECDA inspections.
  • Tested and attempted to validate the existing dry gas ICDA technique as outlined in the draft NACE standard on several datasets, in addition initiated programs to develop ICDA techniques for wet gas and liquid systems. These later programs are still under development.
  • Tested a few new techniques for use as ECDA indirect inspection techniques. This included testing of a magnetostrictive long range UT on a few field sites and extensive testing of the NoPig system on a few sites to determine improvements needed to become an effective indirect inspection technology.
  • And last, developed a document comparing DA, ILI and hydrotesting as integrity management methodologies.

    • Previous work in the DA area included development of the stray current mapper for detection static and dynamic stray currents, development of long range UT systems over several years with PRCI and GRI, and research in