Risk-Based Management of Pipeline Integrity and Safety

October 13-14, 2005

8:00am Registration, coffee

8:30am-5:00pm Course

October 15, 2005

8:00am Coffee

8:30am-4:00pm Course

Course Objectives

The aim of the courses is to give participants a thorough understanding of risk, integrity, and safety, and how to use this knowledge to optimize operation and maintenance of oil, gas, and hazardous liquids transmission pipelines.

Participants will get a working knowledge of the basics of the worldwide industry's accepted engineering approach to pipeline integrity, remaining life, reliability and safety; key elements of the US regulations; integrity management in high-consequence areas (HCAs); pipeline diagnostics, monitoring and maintenance optimization; prioritizing pipeline segments for repair/rehabilitation; and qualitative methods of risk evaluation. Case-studies and interactive workshops will be a significant component of the course to illustrate the implementation of the material taught.

Participants will also learn powerful methods for optimizing the cessation of pipeline performance, the interval between inspections, and the times for pipeline repair or maintenance. Methods of prioritizing pipeline segments for repair/rehabilitation and practical methods of evaluating the components of industrial risk are discussed, including the cost of life/limb, environmental losses, and property damage. Qualitative and quantitative engineering methods for pipeline risk evaluation, and quantitative methods of accounting for the human factor in pipeline reliability and safety, are also investigated.

Who Should Attend

The course is designed for professionals, including decision-makers, who may already have some basic knowledge of the subject and are directly involved in different aspects of diagnostics and risk management of pipelines.

Lecturer

Prof. Sviatoslav Timashev, Ph.D., has more than 25 years’ experience in pipeline reliability (including human factors), remnant life, diagnostics, maintenance, integrity, quantitative risk analysis, safety and security. Much of his work has been for (among other clients) the Russian oil and gas majors Gazprom and Transneft. Prof. Timashev has authored and co-authored 21 books and more than 300 technical papers on the reliability, integrity, diagnostics, maintenance, remnant life, safety and security of large distributed systems such as pipelines. An internationally recognized expert, he has lectured worldwide, including the USA, Russia, Italy, China, Australia, South Africa, Austria, and The Netherlands. Professional memberships include Charter membership in the International Association on Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR); the ASME Pipeline Systems Division Technical Committees on Operation & Maintenance and Risk & Reliability; the API 1163 ILI Qualification Standard Work Group; and the Interstate (CIS) Science & Engineering Council on High-Reliability Transmission Pipelines. Prof. Timashev also serves on the editorial boards of several industry and professional journals, including Structural Safety, Condition Monitoring & Diagnostics Engineering Management (COMADEM), Control & Diagnostics, and the Journal of Pipeline Integrity. He is currently director of the Science and Engineering Centre at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Ekaterinburg.

Continuing Education Units

Upon completion of the course, participants will be eligible to receive 1.7 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Documentation

Participants will receive a full set of the course notes and slides in ring-binder format.

Course Program

Basics of the engineering approach to pipeline integrity, remaining life, reliability and safety

Definitions of a pipeline
GPS/GIS technology for mapping and 3D description of pipelines
Concept of pipeline integrity / limit states
Structural reliability of pipelines
Pipeline defects and remaining life
Pipeline performance risk; components of risk (probability and consequences of failure)
Quantitative, perceptional, potential, individual, collective, societal, territorial risks
Types of oil/gas pipeline catastrophes (fire, explosion, soil/water/air contamination,
injuries/fatalities)
Cost of life/injury, environment contamination, property and profit losses, image damage

PHMSA/OPS DOT US Oil/Gas Pipeline Safety Rules

Pipeline integrity management in HCAs (current state-of-the-art, API 1160, ASME B31.8S, 2001)

Types and classification of pipeline defect

Defects: main localities of pipeline failures and loss of integrity

Basics of oil/gas pipeline diagnostics

In-line inspection ( ILI)—most important single method of pipeline diagnostics
Contemporary methods of in-line inspection
Four stages of ILI technology
Three possible outcomes of ILI
Current level of ILI consistency of defect detection, positioning, and sizing

Pipeline monitoring and maintenance optimization

Basics of pipeline monitoring
Typical pipeline maintenance optimization problems
Optimal cessation of pipeline performance
Optimal interval between inspections
Optimal times for pipeline repair

Risk-based maintenance management

Fitness-for-purpose assessment
Risk operation flow chart
Prioritization of pipeline segments for maintenance/repair/rehabilitation
Real case studies

Workshop: Prioritizing pipeline segments for repair/rehabilitation

How to assess the risk of pipeline performance

Qualitative methods of risk evaluation
Basics of score methods
Quantitative engineering methods for evaluating components of industrial risk; cost of life/limb, environmental losses, property damage
Basics of simulation methods

Case study: assessment of pipeline risk of operation

Role of the human factor in pipeline reliability and safety

Existing approaches to quantitative assessment of human factor/errors
Practical methods of assessing the influence of human errors on pipeline safety and reliability
Means and methods of mitigating the probability and consequences of a terrorist attack on an oil/gas pipeline
Case studies

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