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EPIC25 - Draft Program published

3.09.2025

6 Innovation Tracks, 2 Panels and an exciting Keynote. EPIC 2025 - Detailed Agenda, Revision 6, 8-10th Sept, 2025

Day 1 - 8 Sept 2025

Start	End	Section / Activity	Topic	Titel	Firma	Presenter	Details
8.00am	10.30am	Coffee and Registration
10.45am	11.00am	Welcome Address			EPRG	Marion Erdelen Peppler
11.00am	12.00pm	Keynote Address and Q and A		Project Union A core hydrogen network for Great Britain	National Gas	TBC	Keynote
12.00pm	1.00pm	Lunch
		Session Chair	Michael Tewes, ROSEN			Michael Tewes ROSEN
1.00pm	1.20pm	Day 1 Early Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	EPRG Full scale hydrogen fatigue crack growth testing of vintage pipe materials and welds	EPRG Project 231	Bostjan Bezensek	Paper 01
1.20pm	1.40pm	Day 1 Early Afternoon Session	Inspection	Optimising Magnetic Flux Leakage Inspection Accuracy through the application of AI techniques and Ongoing Performance Tracking	Baker Hughes	Anthony Tindall	Paper 02
1.40pm	2.00pm	Day 1 Early Afternoon Session	Inspection	Prioritising Circumferential Stress Corrosion Cracking using In line Inspection	TD Williamson	TBC	Paper 03
2.00pm	2.30pm	Day 1 Early Afternoon Session		Q&A Session
2.30pm	3.00pm	Coffee
		Session Chair	Aaron Litschewski, Modern Alchemy Consultancy			Aaron Litschewski Modern Alchemy Consultancy
3.00pm	3.20pm	Day 1 Late Afternoon Session	Product	Revealing the unique roles of niobium in enhancing the weldability of modern HSLA linepipe steels	CBMM	Phil Kirkwood	Paper 04
3.20pm	3.40pm	Day 1 Late Afternoon Session	Product	The Formation of Pop Ins during CTOD Testing of X70 Heavy Plate Material	SZMF	TBC	Paper 05
3.40pm	4.00pm	Day 1 Late Afternoon Session	Product	Considerations for Full Scale Fatigue Testing of Mechanically Lined Pipe	TWI	Carol Johnston	Paper 07
4.00pm	4.30pm	Day 1 Late Afternoon Session		Q&A Session and Closing Address Day 1

Day 2 - 9 Sept 2025

Start	End	Section / Activity	Topic	Titel	Firma	Presenter	Details
		Session Chair	Robin Gordon
9.00am	9.20am	Day 2 Early Morning Session	Product	Production and characterization of 32“ RollClad® MLP during fourpoint bend testing	EBK	Iris Rommerskirchen	Paper 08
9.20am	9.40am	Day 2 Early Morning Session	Fracture Control	Critical insights into running ductile fracture in dense phase CO2 pipelines based on observations from large scale testing	DNV	Erling Østby	Paper 09
9.40am	10.00am	Day 2 Early Morning Session	Fracture Control	The EPRG recommendations for fracture arrest in pipelines transporting carbon dioxide in the gas phase	EPRG Project 237	Andrew Cosham	Paper 10
10.00am	10.30am	Day 2 Early Morning Session		Q&A Session
10.30am	10.45am	Coffee
		Session Chair	Mike Kirkwood
10.45am	11.05am	Day 2 Late Morning Session	Fracture Control	Energy Measurement in Drop Weight Tear Testing as Tool for Assessment of Ductile Fracture Propagation in Material Designated for CO2 Pipelines	Dillinger	Sebastian Scholl	Paper 11
11.05am	11.25am	Day 2 Late Morning Session	Fracture Control	Physics Informed AI driven Model for Efficient and Reliable Pipeline Fracture Control	Aixima	Aida Nonn	Paper 12
11.25am	11.45am	Day 2 Late Morning Session		Q&A Session
11.45am	12.30pm	Day 2 Late Morning Session Panel 1		High criticality running fracture control in modern future pipelines		Moderator Martin Connelly	Panellists Andrew Cosham Ninth Planet Engineering Aida Nonn Aixima Erling Østby DNV Ken Macdonald Equinor Paul Roovers Fluxys
12.30pm	1.30pm	Lunch
		Session Chair	Thomas McDonagh YPPE
1.30pm	1.50pm	Day 2 Early Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	Screening method for assessing hydrogen degradation sensitivity of pipeline materials	University of Ghent	Jubica	Paper 13
1.50pm	2.10pm	Day 2 Early Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	TPI Third Party Interference Damage Modelling for Hydrogen Pipelines Preliminary Results of Coupled Hydrogen Embrittlement and Deformation Fracture Modelling	University of Wollongong and APA	TBC	Paper 14
2.10pm	2.30pm	Day 2 Early Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	Comparing different hydrogen charging sources by determining equivalent hydrogen partial pressures in carbon steels	TWI	TBC	Paper 17
2.30pm	3.00pm	Day 2 Early Afternoon Session		Q&A Session
3.00pm	3.20pm	Coffee
		Session Chair	Nikos Voudouris Corinth Pipeworks
3.20pm	3.40pm	Day 2 Late Afternoon Session	Offshore	Effect Of Heat Treatment On Collapse Capacity Of Welded Offshore Pipes	U Thessaly	TBC	Paper 15
3.40pm	4.00pm	Day 2 Late Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	anderstanding the influence of hydrogen on the tensile and fracture properties of X65 D pipeline steel	University of Queensland	Andrej Atrens	Paper 16
4.00pm	4.20pm	Day 2 Late Afternoon Session	Offshore	Comparison of Full Scale and Small Scale Straining Techniques on Mechanical Properties of Line Pipe and Girth Welds	EPRG Project 207	Shirin Espiari	Paper 06
4.20pm	4.50pm	Day 2 Late Afternoon Session		Q&A Session and Closing Address Day 2

Day 3 - 10 Sept 2025

Start	End	Section / Activity	Topic	Titel	Firma	Presenter	Details
		Session Chair	Andrew Cosham Ninth Planet Engineering
9.00am	9.20am	Day 3 Early Morning Session	Hydrogen	Girth Weld Performance in Hydrogen Transmission and Storage Pipelines	APA	Guillaume Michal	Paper 18
9.20am	9.40am	Day 3 Early Morning Session	Hydrogen	EPRG Roand Robin fracture toughness testing in Hydrogen gas	EPRG Project 240	Bostjan Bezensek	Paper 19
9.40am	10.00am	Day 3 Early Morning Session	Integrity	Enhancing the Efficiency and Accuracy of Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Oil and Gas Pipeline risk and Integrity Management	University of Alberta	Seyed Hamed Fateminia	Paper 20
10.00am	10.30am	Day 3 Early Morning Session		Q&A Session
10.30am	10.45am	Coffee
		Session Chair	Spyros Karamanos University of Thessaly
10.45am	11.05am	Day 3 Late Morning Session	Hydrogen	Gas Inhibition of Embrittlement Effects in Pipeline Steels	Rosen	Angel A. Izquierdo Sanchez	Paper 21
11.05am	11.25am	Day 3 Late Morning Session	Hydrogen	Fracture and Fatigue Crack Growth Testing of Pipeline Microstructures in Corrosive Sour Environments compared to Gaseous Hydrogen Conditions	Shell Global Solutions	TBC	Paper 22
11.25am	11.45am	Day 3 Late Morning Session		Q&A Session
11.45am	12.30pm	Day 3 Late Morning Session Panel 2	Hydrogen	How to address diminished fracture toughness and how to standardise		Moderator Neil Gallon	Panellists Bostjan Bezensek Shell Alfons Krom Gasunie Robin Gordon Microalloying Guillaume Michel APA
12.30pm	1.30pm	Lunch
		Session Chair	Craig Clarke APA full afternoon
1.30pm	1.50pm	Day 3 Early Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	anderstanding hydrogen embrittlement HE of fracture toughness tested pipeline steels using fractography and machine learning techniques	ArcelorMittal Global Research and Development	Tuhin Das	Paper 23
1.50pm	2.10pm	Day 3 Early Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	A Simplified Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Approach for Fatigue Assessment of Hydrogen Pipeline Seam Weld	ROSEN Group	TBC	Paper 24
2.10pm	2.40pm	Day 3 Early Afternoon Session		Q&A Session
2.40pm	3.05pm	Coffee
3.05pm	3.25pm	Day 3 Late Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	Design of high pressure subsea pipelines for future hydrogen service connecting offshore geological storage facility	Wood	TBC	Paper 25
3.25pm	3.45pm	Day 3 Late Afternoon Session	Hydrogen	Hydrogen LTS Futures The Design of the Live Trial	SGN	TBC	Paper 26
3.45pm	4.30pm	Day 3 Late Afternoon Session		Q&A Session
4.30pm	4.45pm	Closing Address Conference				Marion Erdelen Peppler

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