Defined Life Composite Repair of Pressure Systems

Chris graduated in Metallurgy from the University of Manchester in 1994. He now has over 27 years of experience in industry, in the areas of Metallurgy, Welding, Corrosion, Inspection and over the last 10 years, as a Specialist Inspector in Materials and Corrosion with The Health and Safety Executive’s Energy Division. Beginning at CAPCIS in Manchester, Chris learned the fundamentals of failure investigation. Moving to join OIS plc in Aberdeen in 1998, he worked as a Metallurgist, providing services to numerous Oil and Gas operators both on and offshore.

Having spent a number of years sitting on the MoD’s Defence Standards Corrosion Committee, Chris is currently involved in the HOIS (Inspection) JIP and the Energy Institute’s Corrosion Management and Asset Integrity Committee.

Having thoroughly enjoyed his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University in the UK, Dr Hill stayed on to complete his PhD researching how to determine safe design allowables of composite materials.
Despite wanting to go into teaching he was instead nudged into the pipeline industry by his wife who thought one teacher in the family was sufficient. He spent the first part of his career with what was then British Gas Engineering, learning that there was a lot more to operating a pipeline safely than he'd ever imagined.

He found himself almost uniquely placed to support the use of composite materials to repair pipelines when the concept was first proposed in the mid-1990's. He has since spent the rest of his career developing methods to qualify, design and install such repairs in a reliable and safe manner. In addition, he has overseen applications of composite materials for the repair of storage tanks, bridges, naval ships and passenger trains.
Dr Hill has been a member of both ASME and ISO standards committees for composite repairs from their beginning and now leads the committee responsible for ISO 24817 (this standard provides guidance for the use of composite repairs on pipelines). He enjoyed working on the project to develop the Gas Network Standard P/25 for the repair of pipelines in the UK natural gas transmission and distribution systems, appreciating the expertise of his collaborators and realising he still has a lot more to learn!

He is responsible for TEAM's global composite repair business which includes defining training requirements for engineers and technicians, design methods, material selection and technical development. He has extensive knowledge of recent industry test programs that have looked at performance of composite repairs for applications in the oil and gas industry and is active in disseminating best practice in their selection and use to support industry objectives to reduce operating costs without compromising safety of operation.

Dr Simon Frost has worked with applications of composite materials within the Oil and Gas industry for the past 20 years. He is Technical and Innovation Director of Engineered Composite Solutions, a supplier of composite repair solutions. His main responsibilities are ensuring the technical quality of all aspects of Futurewrap composite repairs, accreditations, innovation and new developments.

Previously, he was chairman of 2 ISO committees working on composite materials. The first was composite repairs for pipework, ISO 24817. The second was GRP piping, ISO 14692. He is also a member of the PCC-2 Composite repair and PPC – NMR (Non-metallic materials) committees.