Curriculum Vitale of

Perry N. Barham

Perry has more than thirty one years of experience as a senior level pipeline engineer for a major pipeline operating company. Perry's has extensive experience in pipeline design, construction management, maintenance, integrity management and planning, in-line inspection (ILI) technologies and application and repair planning. Perry's experience includes technical design and maintenance for all aspects of corrosion prevention and internal inspection of pipelines utilizing the most advanced ILI technologies available, including axial and transverse Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL), Ultrasonic and Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers (EMAT).

Career highlights include:

• 1999-2009     BP Pipelines (North America)
  Perry's primary engineering responsibilities were the analysis, evaluation and interpretation of ILI data and the development of comprehensive repair plans based on evaluation of the ILI data. Perry was responsible for the evaluation of several new technologies that had not previously been used by BP. Perry's work generated several computer programs to assist in determining the severity of defects found by internal inspections. The computer programs combined ASME B31G Modified safe pressure calculations and the Leak/Rupture evaluation.    
  

• 1994-1999     Amoco Corporation Worldwide Engineering & Construction co-located with Amoco Pipeline Company
  Perry's engineering assignments included Project Engineering/Project Management on three major capital projects. Two major projects were CO2 pipelines in West Texas and the third was a major oil gathering pipeline which included three pump stations and two new storage tanks. Responsibilities in the three projects included design, construction management, and commissioning. Perry also provided ILI support including pipeline system review for ILI tools, organizing, scheduling and running the tools, interpretation of the ILI results and developing the repair plans.

• 1988-1999 Amoco Pipeline Company Engineering Department-Technical Services  Group -Perry was responsible for creating new Amoco Engineering Specifications due to the consolidation of four Amoco divisions. The specifications developed included all aspects of pipeline construction and maintenance. The most notable Engineering Specifications written were the general Nitrogen Purge Procedure, Line Pipe Specification, and Hydrostatic Testing Procedure. Other engineering assignments included providing metallurgical support for material selection on all company projects.

• 1978-1988 Amoco Pipeline Company-Northern Division - Perry's engineering assignments included Corrosion Engineer, Measurement Engineer, Welding Engineer, and DOT Coordinator. As Corrosion Engineer, Perry's accomplishments included the interference testing of HVDC system in North Dakota/Minnesota that influenced AMOCO Oil’s pipeline in Minnesota, and the testing and mitigation of induced AC interference on a new 526 mile pipeline between Indiana and Alabama. Perry served as the Project Manager for implementation of the internal inspection program for all pipelines in Amoco's Northern Pipeline Division.
• Military Service - January 1967 to December 1975 United States Navy
  Honorable discharged Rank E-6 Served in Southeast Asia, Japan, and Charleston, South Carolina. A copy of discharge DD-214 is available upon request.
• Formal Education
  B. S. Electrical Engineering, Bradley University, Graduated 1978
  US Navy various electronics schools 1967 to 1975
  Abilene High School Graduated 1964
  
• Industry Training Completed
  • Quest Trainer at RTD Edmonton, Alberta as a guest Trainer in RTD’s IN-House Training   Course for new employee’s “Introduction to Pipeline Integrity”
  • Clarion-“Excavation Inspection & Applied NDE for ILI/DA Validation and Correlation” course-February 2008
  • Clarion-“Stress Corrosion Cracking in Pipelines” course-August 2006
  • Clarion-Pipeline Pigging Integrity Assessment and Repair-January 2005-Presented Paper
  • Clarion-Pipeline Pigging Integrity Assessment and Repair-January 2005
  • BP PDAM Course March 2004
  • Clarion-Pipeline Pigging Integrity Assessment and Repair-January 2002
  • Clarion-Pipeline Pigging Integrity Assessment and Repair-January 1999
  • ASME IPC Conference-Calgary, Canada October 2004 Presented a paper
  • Kifner & Associates, Inc Pipeline Reliability Assessment October 2002
  • GRI-Pipeline Inspection Using Intelligent Pigs Workshop –March 2000
  • Clock Spring – Clock Spring Installation Trainer February 2000
  • RCP-DOT Pipeline Integrity Management Workshop-March 2001
  • All the NACE Courses between 1978 and 1980
  • Edison Welding School-Columbus Ohio 1984

  Other
  Two industry papers that have been authored presented and published.

  1. “How CU’s HVDC system Affects Amoco’s pipeline” NACE 1981 (Paper Number 28)
  2. “Pipeline Integrity Analysis Based on Interdisciplinary Cooperation” IPC 2004 (Proceedings of IPC 2004 Paper Number IPC04-0184)

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