OREANDA-NEWS. May 31, 2007. The city of Yekaterinburg has hosted the 17th International Business Meeting “Diagnostics-2007”. The Meeting was co-sponsored by Gazprom and its subsidiary Orgenergogaz. 197 representatives from 15 Russian and foreign countries participated in its work.

Bogdan Budzulyak, Member of the Gazprom Management Committee, Co-Chairman of Organizing Committee on 17th International Business Meeting “Diagnostics-2007”, has delivered a report at the Meeting. He said that currently the scope of inline inspection annually performed by Gazprom was 15-20 thousand km, represented an optimal solution for the Unified Gas Supply System of Russia.

The reporter specified a significant progress of gas transmission diagnostic methods and technologies. Particularly, he mentioned in-tube defectoscopes with bypass devices, external automated scanner-defectoscopes applied for gas pipeline inspection within the re-isolation process. Bogdan Budzulyak underscored that the major issue was to develop in-tube defectiscopic technologies for long offshore pipelines.

“Gas pipeline damage rate significantly decreased due to capital repair, re-isolation, reconstruction and diagnostics. Technical maintenance of gas transmission system enables to provide uninterrupted gas supply to Russian and foreign consumers,” said Bogdan Budzulyak.

Within the visit, Bogdan Budzulyak conducted a meeting with Uralmash-Drilling Equipment top management. The meeting examined the contract implementation issues on drilling unit deliveries to develop the Bovanenkovskoye field.