A pipeline is an engineered system of interconnected pipes designed to transport fluids — including crude oil, natural gas, refined petroleum products, water, hydrogen, and industrial chemicals — over short or long distances.

A pipeline is an engineered system of interconnected pipes designed to transport fluids — including crude oil, natural gas, refined petroleum products, water, hydrogen, and industrial chemicals — over short or long distances. Pipelines are the backbone of global energy infrastructure, with millions of kilometers of buried and subsea pipelines in operation worldwide.

Buried pipelines are constructed from corrosion-resistant materials (primarily carbon steel with protective coatings) and must withstand soil loads, temperature variations, ground movement, and internal pressure throughout their operational life — often spanning 30-50+ years.

Pipeline safety and reliability depend on comprehensive integrity management: regular inspection, corrosion monitoring, and condition assessment. While inline inspection (ILI) serves piggable lines, a significant portion of the global pipeline network is unpiggable. EMPIT’s Current Magnetometry Inspection (CMI) technology enables non-invasive aboveground inspection of buried pipelines — detecting corrosion, geometry anomalies, coating defects, and structural risks without excavation.