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Risk-based Management of Pipeline Integrity and Safety Course
| December 5, 2006 |
| 7:30am |
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| 8:00am-4:30pm |
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| December 6-8, 2006 |
| 8:00am-4:30pm |
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Pipeline Operators need to know how to create integrity-management plans in order tominimize the overall costs of pipeline operation, and to include the consequences of a possible leakor burst (loss of property, environmental pollution, casualties/ mortalities, liabilities, and numerousintangible losses). They need to know how to use the recently-developed, leading-edge, powerful, and cost-effective tools of risk-based maintenance to their advantage when identifying the best methods formaintaining the structural soundness of transmission pipelines. This course presents the latest methods of risk-based management for pipeline integrity and safety,including the human factor component, and is intended for pipeline professionals at every level. These methods range from simple and quick assessment methods to the more-sophisticated pipeline-risk analyses. The course is highly interactive, and takes the form of lectures, workshops, case studies, and discussions. This course is organized in association with the Science and Engineering Center of the Ural Branch ofthe Russian Academy of Sciences.
Objectives
The course objective is to give a systemic, holistic understanding of the basics ofprobabilistic reliability and risk methodology concepts of diagnostics, integrity, safety, and security of transmission pipelines. It will give the attendees a deep and thorough understanding and knowledge of risk, integrity, safety, and how to use this knowledge in practice for optimization of operation and maintenance of transmission pipelines.
Who should attend
Gas and liquid operators, pipelineprofessionals that are involved withmaintenance, inspection, and repair, governmental regulators, decision-makers, human-resource managers, risk managers, specialists in new technologies for pipelineintegrity and safety, among others. Participants in the course will leave with aworking understanding of pipeline operational excellence and a sense of the state-of-the- art. They will be equipped to help lead their own firms in an intelligent manner.
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 (CEUs)
On satisfactorily completing the course, participants will be eligible to receive 2.2 CEUs.
Course Documentation
Participants receive a sturdy ring binder containing all the lecture slides with notes and illustrations supporting the lectures and providing an invaluable reference source after the course.
Course Syllabus
DAY 1
Basics of the engineering approach topipeline integrity, remaining life,reliability and safety
- Definitions of a pipeline
- GPS/GIS technology for mapping and 3Ddescription 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 catastrophe (fire,explosion, soil/water/air contamination,injuries/fatalities)
- Cost of life/injury, environment contamination,property and profit losses, image damage
Oil/gas pipeline safety rules
- Pipeline integrity management in HCAs(current state-of-the-art, API 1160, ASMEB31.8S, 2001)
Types and classification of pipeline defect
- Defects: main localities of pipeline failures andloss of integrity
DAY 2
Basics of oil/gas pipeline diagnostics
- In-line inspection (ILI)—most important singlemethod 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 defectdetection, positioning, and sizing
Optimizing monitoring and maintenance
- Basics of pipeline monitoring
- Typical pipeline maintenance optimizationproblems
- 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 formaintenance/repair/rehabilitation
- Real case studies
DAY 3
Workshop: prioritizing pipeline segmentsfor repair/rehabilitation
How to assess the risk of pipelineperformance
- Qualitative methods of risk evaluation
- Basics of score methods
- Quantitative engineering methods forevaluating components of industrial risk; costof life/limb, environmental losses, propertydamage
- Basics of simulation methods
- Real case studies
DAY 4
Real case study: assessment of risk
Role of the human factor
- Existing approaches to quantitative assessmentof human factor/errors
- Practical methods of assessing the influence ofhuman errors on pipeline safety and reliability
- Means and methods of mitigating theprobability and consequences of a terroristattack on an oil/gas pipeline
- Real case studies
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