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The 33rd annual Pipeline Pigging and Integrity Management (PPIM) Conference and Exhibition is now accepting papers for the 2021 event.

Returning to Houston, Texas on February 22 - 26, 2021, PPIM will once again bring together pipeline professionals with an interest in sharing ideas about pigging for maintenance, inspection, integrity assessment and repair with the aim of improving operations and integrity management.

Industry professionals are invited to contribute to the event by submitting proposals sharing developments and experience in their area of specialisation.

Click here to submit an abstract through the submission portal.

Proposals should include a title, speaker names, and full company name and address, accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words, along with the contact information and affiliation of the author and co-authors.

The deadline to submit abstracts is October 15, 2020, with the final paper and presentation required by January 12 , 2021. For more information about the event, visit the PPIM conference event page.

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