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This paper introduces the typical girth weld defects of oil and gas pipelines and the common nondestructive testing methods, and systematically generalizes the progress in the studies on technical principles, signal analysis, defect sizing method and inspection reliability, etc., of magnetic flux leakage (MFL) inspection, liquid ultrasonic inspection, electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) inspection and remote field eddy current (RFDC) inspection for oil and gas pipeline girth weld defects. Additionally, it introduces the new technologies for composite ultrasonic, laser ultrasonic, and magnetostriction inspection, and provides reference for development and application of oil and gas pipeline girth weld defect in-line inspection technology.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17010050","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,28]],"date-time":"2016-12-28T11:22:14Z","timestamp":1482924134000},"page":"50","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":109,"title":["Literature Review: Theory and Application of In-Line Inspection Technologies for Oil and Gas Pipeline Girth Weld Defection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Qingshan","family":"Feng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China"},{"name":"PetroChina Pipeline Company, Langfang 065000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5084-0276","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PetroChina Pipeline Company, Langfang 065000, China"},{"name":"School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Baohua","family":"Nie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Materials Science and Energy Engineering, FoShan University, Foshan 528000, China"}]},{"given":"Shucong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Disaster Prevention, Sanhe 065201, China"}]},{"given":"Lianyu","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PetroChina Pipeline Company, Langfang 065000, China"}]},{"given":"Hong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) (2013). 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