Note to readers: I published a letter from Ray Guilbert regarding skip welding patch panels into place back in the July 2007 "Professor Hammer" column. This has generated more mail than any column in ...

A senior-level rundown of how onshore/offshore line pipe joints are welded into a continuous, code-compliant pipeline—what it is, how it’s executed on the right-of-way or lay vessel, and how to ...

Remember the 80’s movie, Flashdance? The female lead, Jennifer Beals, was a welder by day in a Pittsburgh steel mill and for many people that was their first glimpse of what a welder did for a living.