Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
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Can anyone explain me the difference between piping and pipeline engieers. Curently I work as a piping engineer and the question is if I can work as a pipeline engineer, what are the prerequisites of being a pipeline engineer. Thanks.
Can anyone explain me the difference between piping and pipeline engieers. Curently I work as a piping engineer and the question is if I can work as a pipeline engineer, what are the prerequisites of being a pipeline engineer. Thanks.





RE: Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
I design piping systems, but would not assume I can design piplines because I don't have the neccessary experience with the relevant standards.
RE: Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
Whereas a piping engineer is very much focused on materials, component specifications, routing through piperacks and over, under, around and through equipment in refineries, offshore platforms, food plants and chemical plants, pipeline engineering duties IMO include a very much wider scope of activities that may find you implementing a geographic information database system one day for a 20,000 mile pipeline transmission and distribution system and studying metallurgy of automatically welding 100 ksi steel the next. Much of the time between these extremes is spent in route permit acquisition, valve and pump station location, highway & railroad crossing design, construction specifications, assisting with land aquisition and maybe even transient flow hydraulics to name only a very few. Obviously, due to the heavy volume of construction in widely differing environments covering long distances through desert, mountains and corn fields right into NYC sometimes, a very good knowledge of civil engineering is extremely beneficial. I also find it takes a more extroverted personality to deal with a much greater number of people representing the many different groups and interests you find crossing 1000 miles of pipeline route than you do in a typical relatively restricted plant environment.
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RE: Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
RE: Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
http://virtualpipeline.spaces.msn.com
"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain
RE: Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
That was a very good description, and it all boilded down to "Piping engineers deal with issues inside a constricted space, Pipeline engineers deal with issues out in the open". Many of the skills that I see piping engineers struggle with are simply non issues in a pipeline (e.g., it is rare to see a pipeline engineer do a pipe-stress analysis on his entire pipeline). And vice versa (e.g., piping engineers don't have to deal with surface use contracts or land owner issues).
David
RE: Difference between piping and pipelibe engineers
http://virtualpipeline.spaces.msn.com
"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain