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July 2026

The July 2026 issue of World Pipelines explores the technologies, skills and strategies helping operators maintain safe, reliable and efficient pipeline systems. From South America's expanding energy infrastructure, and advances in leak detection, monitoring and HDD, to pipeline intervention, reliability engineering, coatings, workforce development and asset integrity, our contributors examine how the industry is reducing risk, improving performance and preparing for future growth.

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Contents

Guest comment
Sam Thornton, Chief Operating Officer, Bridewell.

Pipeline news

Exploring new opportunities
Gordon Cope, Contributing Editor.

Set up for success
Stuart Mitchell, President and CTO, PipeSense.

Monitoring beyond doubt
Julien Losseau, CEO, Sourse, Belgium.

HDD Q&A
Simon Herrenknecht, Head of Business Division Pipeline, Business Unit Utility Tunnelling, Herrenknecht; Jason LaValley, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LaValley Industries; and Boris Böhm, MAX STREICHER GmbH & Co. KG aA, BD Project Division/Business Development and Equipment.

Mission-critical pipeline intervention
Jeff Lehr, Vice President of Product Innovation and Execution, WeldFit.

Measuring the cost of downtime
Emily Bridge, Reliability Manager, KBR.

Ensuring integrity
Faye Jardine, BEL Valves, UK.

A safer workforce
Jon Mattos, Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB).

Redefining protective coatings
Neil Wilds, Global Product Director - CUI/Testing, Sherwin-Williams.

Beyond the water sample
Matthew Snape, Senior Technical Commercial Manager, Oil and Gas, and Jennifer Knopf, Head of R&D Oil and Gas Product Line, Vink Chemicals.


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