Jonathan Franklin

Jonathan is Jee’s Engineering Manager and a Principal Engineer with 15 years’ experience of pipeline engineering project work and development and 12 years’ working on a number of onshore pipeline research and design projects.

Professional qualifications: 

• Chartered Engineer
• Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Jonathan’s particular expertise includes:

• pipeline span assessment
• remnant life assessment
• subsea LNG pipelines
• failure investigation
• pipeline integrity management
• subsea insulation systems
• defect and fracture assessment

• onshore pipeline design assessments
• development and full-scale testing of X80 linepipe steels
• leading failure investigations for a wide range of onshore pipeline incidents
• development and application of vibration mitigation methods to improve the fatigue life of pipeline systems
• design of above ground installation pipework for new compressor stations

Jonathan was recently involved in the following pipeline engineering studies and brings his experiences straight to the classroom:

• evaluation of pigging options for Southern North Sea pipelines
• development of standards for deepwater pipelines
• evaluation of pipeline stabilisation options for North Sea pipelines
• evaluation of span mitigation options offshore West Africa
• pressure uprating of National Grid high pressure gas transmission system