Pipeline Transportation: Hydrogen and Emerging Fuels R&D Public Meeting and Forum

The purpose of the "Pipeline Transportation: Hydrogen and Emerging Fuels R&D Public Meeting and Forum" is to assist PHMSA in developing its R&D agenda for the next two years and help address one of DOT's strategic goals to develop climate solutions. The first day of the event will be a public meeting and general session focusing on two objectives: (1) the current state of PHMSA's pipeline safety R&D, and (2) the environmental and infrastructure impacts of a shift to clean emerging fuels. The second day will consist of smaller interactive workgroups to develop robust R&D topics for funding consideration by PHMSA. The final day will include a report out from the workgroups to the general session and a public comment period.

The mission of PHMSA is to protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy products and other hazardous materials that are essential to our daily lives. PHMSA oversees the transportation of hazardous materials, including energy products, through all modes of the transportation industry—and is focused on the Biden-Harris Administration's whole-of-government approach to mitigating climate change. PHMSA collaborates with stakeholders from the public, academia, interagency, international partners, and pipeline industry that share PHMSA's goal of advancing knowledge and technology in the pursuit of improved pipeline safety. The PHMSA's research agenda will adapt to address existing and future initiatives such as the market shift to more climate friendly commodities.

Due to the importance of energy products and other hazardous materials to our economy and standard of living, it is essential that research projects promote safety, protection of the environment, reliability, and ensure our transportation system's efficient and reliable performance. To this end, PHMSA hopes to discuss and receive public feedback on repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of leak prone, legacy cast iron pipelines; integrity of underground fuel storage including hydrogen; utilization of inspection tools and network components on hydrogen pipeline facilities; integrity management of natural gas and hazardous liquids pipeline to include carbon dioxide lines; and methane mitigation from pipeline infrastructure.

The virtual public meeting and forum will be open to the public. Members of the public who wish to attend must register on the meeting website and include their names and organization affiliation. Individuals will have an opportunity on a first come first serve basis to sign up to participate in specific working group between October 15, 2021, and November 15, 2021. Members of the public can only register to participate in one workgroup. PHMSA is committed to providing all participants with equal access to these meetings. Individuals requiring accommodations, such as sign language interpretation or other aids, are asked to notify PHMSA no later than November 1, 2021.

Day 1 Transcript

Alan Mayberry, Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety, PHMSA

Sentho White, Director of Engineering and Research Division, Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), PHMSA

1. Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
2. Bill Caram, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust

1. Timothy Reinhardt, Director of Oil & Gas Supply and Delivery, Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy
2. Mark Richards, Technology Manager, Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency& Renewable Energy
3. Andy Miller, Associate Director for Climate, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
4. Matthew Connolly, Physicist, Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

1. Simon Gant, Fluid Dynamics Team & Adam Bannister, Engineering Materials Team, United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive
2. Peter Budgell, Senior Technical Specialist, Research and Innovation Team, Canada Energy Regulator

1. Sonal Patni, Director of Operations & Engineering Services, American Gas Association
2. Steve Squibb, Director, Natural Gas Operations at City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri, American Public Gas Association
3. Shawn A. Miller, Vice President, Engineering and Construction, Interstate Natural Gas As-sociation of America
4. David Murk, Director, Pipelines Midstream, American Petroleum Institute

1. Cliff Johnson, President, Pipeline Research Council International
2. Michael Adamo, Vice President of Operations, Operations Technology Development
3. Daphne D'Zurko, Executive Director, Northeast Gas Association/NYSEARCH

Kandilarya Barakat, Operations Supervisor, Engineering and Research Division, OPS, PHMSA

Lauren Tipton, Principal, Elemental Compliance

Sentho White, Director of Engineering and Research Division, OPS, PHMSA

Sentho White, Director of Engineering and Research Division, OPS, PHMSA

Day 2 – December 1, 2021

Working Group Background & Descriptions Click Here

Working Group #1: Rehabilitation of Aging Cast Iron Pipelines

1. PHMSA Leader: Chris McLaren, Program Manager
2. Industry Co-Leader: Saadat Khan, Director of Gas Distribution Asset & Engineering NYS, National Grid

1. Jack Lewnard, Program Director, Department of Energy/ARPA-E
2. Khalid Farrag, Senior Institute Engineer - R&D Manager, Gas Technology Institute, Operations Technology Development
3. Rick Trieste, Department Manager - R&D, ConEdison & Gautam Kakaiya, Project Manager - R&D, NYSEARCH, Northeast Gas Association/NYSEARCH
4. Rehabilitation Vendor Perspective: David L. Wickersham, President, Progressive Pipeline Management

Working Group #2: Integrity of Underground Natural Gas/Hydrogen Storage

1. PHMSA Leader, Jim Pfeifle, General Engineer/Program Manager
2. Industry Co-Leader, Anders Johnson, VP Gas Storage, Kinder Morgan
3. Industry Co-Leader, Gordon Loyd, Project Engineer, Combustion Turbine Group, Northern California Power Agency
4. Industry Co-Leader, Hilary Petrizzo, Project Manager, Hydrogen Engineering Strategy, Southern California Gas

1. Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Subsurface Hydrogen Assessment, Storage, and Technology Acceleration Program - Josh White, Deputy Division Leader
2. Operations Technology Development - Shadi Salashoor, Principal Engineer, Gas Technology Institute
3. Pipeline Research Council International - Zoe Shall, Program Manager, Integrity and Inspection and Underground Storage Committees
4. University of Texas at Austin, Mark W. Shuster, Deputy Director, Research, Bureau of Economic Geology

Working Group #3: Utilization of Inspection Tools on Hydrogen Pipelines

1. PHMSA Leader, Christian Sellu, Pipeline Safety Inspector
2. Industry Co-Leader, Kirk Wissmar, Pipeline Integrity Engineer, BHE GT&S Joint Presentation
3. Industry Co-Leader, Greg Van Boven, Senior Engineer, Innovation & Decision Optimization, TC Energy Joint Presentation

1. Jeff Whitworth, Program Manager – Emerging Fuels Institute, Pipeline Research Council International
2. In-Line Inspection Vendors Perspective - Bryce Brown, VP Industry, Regulatory & Public Affairs, Rosen

Working Group #4: Hydrogen Network Components

1. PHMSA Leader, Vinnie Holohan, General Engineer
2. Industry Co-Leader, Mirela Hiti - Manager of Energy Transition Technologies, TC Energy Joint Presentation
3. Industry Co-Leader, Tim Harris, Research and Development Senior Engineer, Southern Company Joint Presentation
4. Industry Co-Leader, Kevin Woo, Hydrogen Strategy Team Lead, SoCalGas Joint Presentation
5. Industry Co-Leader, Danielle Mark, Senior Gas Engineer, PG&E Joint Presentation

1. Neha Rustagi, Systems Analysis Lead, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, Department of Energy HyBlend Initiative
2. Dennis Jarnecke, Director R&D, Gas Technology Institute, Operations Technology Development
3. Jagruti Mehta, Project Manager – R&D, Northeast Gas Association/NYSEARCH
4. Jeff Whitworth, Program Manager – Emerging Fuels Institute, Pipeline Research Council International

Working Group #5: Methane Mitigation – Construction and Operations

1. PHMSA Leader, Steve Nanney, Senior Engineer
2. Industry Co-Leader, Zach Keith, Manager, Environmental Sciences, Williams
3. Industry Co-Leader, Adam Stickl, Materials Engineer, Washington Gas
4. Industry Co-Leader, Nick Medina, Public and Government Affairs Manager, ExxonMobil Pipeline Company

1. Chris Moore, Program Manager, Gas Technology Institute, Operations Technology Development
2. Angie Mallahan, Program Manager and Tom Lumadue, Champion for the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Program, Pipeline Research Council International
3. Sade Ruffin, Support Contractor to ARPA-E, ARPA-E

Working Group #6: Breakout Tanks – Methods to Prevent Corrosion Of Tank Bottoms

1. PHMSA Leader, Zaid Obeidi, General Engineer
2. Industry Co-Leader, Chris Aldrich, Integrity Management Program Coordinator, Marathon Pipe Line LLC
3. Industry Co-Leader Justin Samuel, Engineer, Integrity Tech Services, Phillips 66
4. Industry Co-Leader, John G Field, Corrosion Engineer, Energy Transfer Partners

1. Pavan K. Shukla, Principal Engineer, Savannah River National Laboratory, Pipeline Research Council International
2. Corrosion Vendor Perspective: Michael Surkein, Principal, Surkein Corrosion

• AI-enabled Interactive Threats Detection using a Multi-camera Stereo Vision System
• Knowledge-guided Automation for Integrity Management of Aging Pipelines (KAI-MAP) for Hydrogen Transport

• Predicting Remaining Fatigue Life of a Dent with Corrosion Using Advanced Measurements and Modeling

• Internal Corrosion Monitoring in Pipelines by using Helical Ultrasonic Waves

• An Unmanned Aerial System of Visible Light, Infrared and Hyperspectral Cameras with Novel Signal Processing and Data Analytics

• Brain-Inspired Learning Framework to Bridging Information, Uncertainty and Human-Machine Decision-Making for Decoding Variance in Pipeline Computational Models
• New Bio-Inspired 3D Printing Functionalized Lattice Composites for Actively Preventing and Mitigating Internal Corrosion

• Multi-modal NDE Assisted Probabilistic Pipeline Performance Evaluation under Interactive Anomalies

Day 3 Transcript

Sentho White, Director of Engineering and Research Division, Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), PHMSA

WG #6 Breakout Tanks—Methods to Prevent Corrosion of Tank Bottoms