HOIS Highlights 2023-2024

There is an active forum and working group activity within the HOIS community focussing on discussion and knowledge sharing of integrity and inspection aspects relating to low carbon and emissions reduction strategies within the energy sector. Some areas of particular interest to HOIS members are the developing hydrogen sector and carbon capture, utilisation and storage. There is a “watching brief” activity to identify ideas for suitable HOIS projects on these topics.

In September 2022 Hydrogen Information Exchange – The Impact of Hydrogen Fuel Sector on NDT report was published. The purpose of this document is to provide HOIS members with an up-to-date overview on the implications of using hydrogen-based fuel on in-service NDT, throughout the supply chain including re-purposing of pipelines. There is an ongoing commitment to issue revisions of this document as new information becomes known with two updates being issued in 2023/24. This format has now been expanded to a sister document Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage Information Exchange -The Impact of CCUS Sector on NDT with two updates also being issued in 2023-24.

The aim is to provide a starting point framework with links to more in-depth resources. This study can be used to raise members awareness of, and help communicate, the current level of materials knowledge (and the key gaps in knowledge) in this sector and the related NDT challenges which need to be addressed as part of rapid scale-up. As such it focuses on technical aspects rather than market updates.

The two documents are confidential to HOIS members.

The project approval process ensures that the technical programme is entirely determined by the membership. HOIS continues to evolve the technical programme to align with the priorities of HOIS members, many of whom demonstrate their clear commitment to net zero operations.