Skipper NDT Wins the Innovation Award at PPIM 2025 in Houston

Skipper NDT is an innovative company specializing in the automation of pipeline maintenance. With its cutting-edge solutions, it helps protect underground infrastructure from third-party damage and anticipate pipeline movements in unstable terrain. The company operates in various sectors, including water, energy, electricity, and hydrogen, offering technologies that combine hardware and software for optimized monitoring and management of underground networks.

Skipper NDT has been awarded The Innovation Award at the 37th edition of the Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management Conference (PPIM), the world's leading forum dedicated to pipeline integrity management and inspection. This prestigious event, held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, brought together major industry players to showcase the most groundbreaking innovations in underground transportation infrastructure, maintenance and integrity.

A major Recognition for Skipper NDT

This prestigious award highlights the precision, efficiency, and impact of Skipper NDT’s solutions in improving pipeline integrity while optimizing maintenance costs. By integrating the latest innovations in the field of software and hardware, the companyprovides high accuracy geospatial digital twins of buried assets in complex environments (river crossings, areas affected by geohazard) from which critical integrity information can be derived. A software suite enables third party deployment of the technology (data acquisition) and automated data processing to ensure analysis repeatability and reproducibility.

The recognition underscores the added valueof Skipper NDT'ssolutions to the industry strengthening trust among clients, investors, and partners in the company’s ability to address the growing challenges of pipeline maintenance and safety. Skipper NDT provides an effective response to accidental damage risks and ground movement challenges, contributing to safer infrastructure that complies with the most stringent standards. Moreover, it enhances the management and protection of strategic networks for stakeholders across the energy and resource sectors.

By securing this award in a highly competitive pipeline sector, Skipper NDT reaffirms its key role in technological innovation for underground infrastructure management. The company continues to invest in research and development to provide pipeline operators with increasingly efficient solutions tailored to today's environmental and economic challenges.