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Improved NDT for Inspection of Welds in Subsea Sensors

Webinars 13 May 2025

Joint Industry Project Launch Meeting on Improved NDT for Full Volumetric Inspection of Critical Weld in Subsea Sensors for the Oil and Gas Sector

This Joint Industry Project (JIP) will address the problems that manufacturers of subsea sensors for the oil and gas sector face where full volumetric inspection of critical welds is required by API standards. Currently manufacturers have to either design larger welds than necessary to adhere to standards or use substandard inspection techniques potentially allowing serious defects to remain in the welds during service. The project in two phases each over 12 months, will develop and qualify innovative and improved NDT techniques and procedures specifically designed to detect the types of defects that occur in the small, autogenous electron beam and laser welds that form the pressure boundary of subsea sensors.

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If you would like to find out more or express an interest in this proposed project, you can email Sofia Sampethai at sofia.sampethai@twi.co.uk

Find out more about the TWI Joint Industry Project Programme

Speakers

Dr Ian Nicholson - Technical Consultant and Business Development Lead

Dr Ian Nicholson

Technical Consultant and Business Development Lead
TWI Ltd

Dr Ian Nicholson is technical consultant and Business Development  lead at TWI Technology Centre (Wales). He is a chartered engineer with over 30 years’ industrial experience in systems integration for automated NDT, microelectronics, sensor and software development and technical project management. Ian spent his early career in industry as a software and hardware engineer working both in the UK and The Netherlands for different SMEs and LEs. Ian  has overseen the development of a number of novel NDT prototype systems for non-destructive inspection and evaluation. 

Alan Clarke - Principal Project Leader

Alan Clarke

Principal Project Leader

Alan is a Principal Project Leader at TWI Technology Centre (Wales). He has over 13 years of experience researching, developing and utilising bespoke measurement and instrumentation; with expertise in systems hardware and software integration. He is educated as an electronic engineer. 

Alan has worked at TWI for 8 years, delivering technical solutions and project management, having a proven track record in delivering research excellence within industry-focused NDT. At TWI he specialises in automated digital radiography and computed tomography (CT) solutions for industrial applications. He provides bespoke software, electronic and mechanical solutions in order to deploy innovative radiographic detection capability in automated environments. He represents TWI on the British Standards Institute Committee for Computed Tomography and oversees a PhD research team currently investigating advanced CT, including novel tomographic reconstruction algorithm development.

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