(EnergyAsia, October 6 2011, Thursday) — Norway’s DNV said it has established a Greater China Pipeline Technical Consultative Committee with Yang Zupei, Secretary General of the Chinese state-owned CNPC Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Standardization Committee, as its first chairman.

DNV said this is its second pipeline committee in the world and the first of its kind outside Europe.

The committee includes members from the Chinese pipeline industry such as owners, contractors, operators, authorities, designers, engineering companies, manufacturing companies, research institutions and universities.

At the committee’s first meeting chaired by Mr Yang in Beijing on September 16, participants discussed the industry’s standardisation development, technical issues, risk and integrity management trends.

DNV’s global director of energy programs Kjell Ericsson shared its recent research findings on energy and pipeline issues, as well as technology development. The committee agreed to hold its next meeting in 2012.

DNV’s Director of Operations for China Energy, Stone Zhang, said:

“As a world leading provider of services for managing risk with focus on quality, technology and integrity, DNV established this committee with the objective to provide a platform for the whole value chain players in the Chinese pipeline industry to meet and discuss the issues of common concern and address the challenges facing the industry.

“We also want to share our expertise and experiences accumulated over the past years in the industry and bring best practices from all over the world to the Chinese pipeline industry, thus to contribute to the further development of fast growing Chinese pipeline industry.”