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New MFL technology completes single-run multifeature inspections

08/24/2009
By Martin Bluck
GDF Suez's wholly owned gas transmission system operator, GRTgaz, completed its first project with GE Oil & Gas' New MagneScan in-line inspection system, a next-generation magnetic flux leakage device allowing operators to map pipelines as small as 6-in. OD while also inspecting for metal loss and geometry features.GRTgaz successfully completed its advanced MFL inspection in spring 2009 on a 6-in., 24-mile line in Normandy, France. Built in 1965 northwest of Paris, the pipeline is part of GRTgaz's 32,000-km gas pipeline system in France.The new system is the first able to inspect pipelines—of varying diameters and sharp bends —for multiple types of features in a single run...
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