After 50 Years of Nonsense, Hydrotesting is Finally Demystified

PipeSense Continues to Raise Bar for Accuracy, Accountability With Market's Only Real-Time Hydrotesting Dashboard

HOUSTON, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PipeSense, the leak detection company whose ultra-high-frequency pressure sampling and advanced AI brought common sense to hydrotesting, has just launched the market's only real-time, comprehensive hydrotest dashboard. PipeTest HydroView helps pipeline operators clearly differentiate between leaks and temperature changes during a hydrotest, bringing robust data visibility to a service notorious for its challenges, and providing them the ability to approve a test real-time.

Now available to PipeSense customers, the HydroView Dashboard is the latest update to PipeSense's PipeTest service for monitoring pressure and temperature during all stages of a hydrostatic pressure test. With the dashboard launch, PipeSense becomes the only company offering real-time leak detection and location during hydrotests, said Stuart Mitchell, PipeSense CTO.

"PipeTest HydroView will allow our clients to better understand the progress of a hydrotest in real-time from anywhere in the world, while improving efficiency, accuracy and overall confidence in the test result," said Mitchell. "Our clients will now have certainty with their hydrotest."

The dashboard provides hydrotest supervisors, inspectors and engineers with a number of critical real-time data points, including rolling pressure windows and trends at 15 minutes and one hour, ground temperature, temperature-corrected pressure floor and the location of newly-formed detected leaks. In doing so, PipeTest HydroView helps customers eliminate time-intensive blown tests, reduce test approval timelines and know for certain that the test results are accurate.

Key features include:

• Real-time pressure trends and data insights
• Real-time temperature corrected pressure floor for the test
• True correlation between temperature change and test pressure to correctly identify very small leaks
• Real-time leak location for newly formed detected leaks

With a streamlined interface and rich data visualizations, PipeTest HydroView is designed to help busy midstream professionals get the accurate, data-driven results they need — minus the uncertainty of past hydrotesting methods, Mitchell said.

Until the launch of PipeSense's PipeTest service, hydrotesting methods for the midstream industry had been largely unchanged for more than 50 years.

About PipeSense

PipeSense is a leading provider of AI-powered pipeline integrity solutions. Its core technologies—PipeGuard, PipeTest, and PipeScan—deliver continuous leak detection, hydrotest monitoring, and obstruction locating with unmatched accuracy and speed. Using ultra-high-frequency pressure sampling and machine learning, PipeSense enables operators to detect and locate leaks within minutes, often to within 20–50 feet.

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