John van Pol has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. John is the Founder and CEO of Ingu Solutions Inc., where they developed the Pipers® technology, a pipeline inspection solution for water and oil & gas pipelines. John actively monitors changes in pipeline condition by combining inline leak detection, deposit surveys, and wall condition monitoring.
Additionally, John served as the Chairman of the Board at the Netherlands-Canada Chamber of Commerce from 2015 to 2016. Prior to that, they were the Co-Founder and Managing Director of INCAS³ from 2008 to 2015, where they played a key role in the company's establishment and management.
Furthermore, John co-founded and served as a Director of Bangma & van Pol, Management Consulting from 2007 to 2009. Before venturing into consulting, they held the position of Dean and Resource Manager at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Utrecht and Groningen from 2003 to 2007.
John's early career involved working in the Telecommunications Industry, including roles as a Marketing Manager at KPN and BT from 1996 to 2002.
Overall, John van Pol's work experience showcases their leadership, entrepreneurial, and managerial skills in various industries such as pipeline technology, consulting, chamber of commerce, and education.
John van Pol obtained a Master of Science/Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics from Eindhoven University of Technology from 1986 to 1991. John then pursued a Ph.D. at the University of Groningen from 1991 to 1995, specializing in Physics & Natural Sciences - Nuclear Physics.
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Currently, inline inspection in the oil and gas sector is a series of staged engineering events, designed to assess the condition of pipeline assets. It is costly, infrequent, and only addresses those lines that are within reach. In fact, it is estimated that 40% of the world’s pipelines are unpiggable. The vulnerabilities between inspections,which are typically years apart, or the inability to conduct inspections at all, puts the world’s aging pipeline infrastructure at risk. In order to address these issues, we have focused on changing the economics, the technology, and the workflow associated with inline inspection. We have introduced the industry’s first self-serve inspection model that eliminates significant engineering and downtime costs. We have developed miniature, multi sensor Pipers® technology that freely flows within any and all active pipelines, regardless of location, condition, material or configuration. This technology is capable of inspecting pipelines as small as 2 inches in diameter, and surveying for leaks, geometric defects, magnetic anomalies, and deposits in a single run. Further, we have reduced the cost of inline inspection by a factor of 10, making it possible for integrity programs to be more present, more often, across all of their assets. Finally, such accessible technology has given us the opportunity to work with a complete range of clients – large and small, private and public – resulting in rich datasets libraries that offer unprecedented contextual analysis and continuous advancement of our data analytics capabilities. Our approach provides clients with uninterrupted access to up-to-date condition-critical data, allowing them to optimize planning, decision-making, and actions.
