Everyone in our business knows—or ought to know—about the pipeline maintenance crisis that puts billions of dollars, lives, property, and the reputation of midstream oil & gas industry at risk, leading some in the public to call it a “ticking timebomb.” Statistics indicate tens of thousands of miles of pipes decades beyond their predicted end-of-life,…
Data Ingestion and Normalization – Machine Learning Accelerates the Process
If you have ever looked through 20 years of inline inspection tally sheets, you will understand why it takes a machine learning technique (e.g. random forest, Bayesian methods) to ingest and normalize them into a database effectively. It would be a monumental task if attempted manually by a human … not to mention the risk…
OneBridge Solutions Puts Innovation in the Pipeline
Do you live within 200 yards of an oil or gas pipe? More than 60% of Americans do, but no one – not public agencies, not commercial customers, and not even the energy companies that own the pipes – could tell you exactly where defects in those pipes are. As that infrastructure ages far beyond…
