BOB PRIESTON,
P. ENG
MANAGER, ASSET INTEGRITY
Bob Prieston is a registered Professional Engineer in both Alberta and Saskatchewan, and is also a NACE certified Senior Internal Corrosion Technologist. Bob worked for 11 years for an upstream oil and gas producer in west central Saskatchewan in a field based position. In this role as a Pipeline Integrity Coordinator, Bob worked with Operations in initially developing a pipeline integrity program and then managing it day to day to support Operations. In his later years with the Upstream producer, he moved into a senior role to provide guidance to all of the company’s field based pipeline integrity coordinators in the four Western Canadian provinces, working with requirements of integrity management programs under four provincial regulatory bodies, as well as a small number of pipelines regulated by the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER). In that position, Bob also managed the companies overall Pipeline Integrity Management Program (IMP) in working to ensure its compliance with both CSA Z662 and the applicable regulatory bodies where the company operated pipelines.