This course offers a comprehensive exploration of Pipeline Integrity Management strategies, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, including self-assessment. The course is designed to be highly interactive, combining lectures and case studies to facilitate learning. By the end of the seminar, participants will possess a strong understanding of the procedures, strengths, limitations, and practical applicability of the key components that constitute a Pipeline Integrity Management Program.

Course Objectives:

To provide attendees with the latest techniques used to develop a comprehensive integrity management program covering both pipelines and their associated facilities. The necessary elements of such a program are described in detail with examples of typical program content including an overarching view of where detailed Risk Analysis and Defect Assessment fits in the Program.

On completion of this course you will be able to understand:

· Codes used in developing Integrity Management Plans

· The elements of an Integrity Management Plan

· Threat assessment

· Critical aspects of risk assessment.

· Prevention and mitigation measures

· Characteristics and limitations of different inspection methods

· A risk- based approach to maintenance

Who Should Attend?

Supervisors, engineers and technicians responsible for ensuring the adequate protection of pipeline assets; maintenance planners, regulators and service-providers to the pipeline industry will also benefit from attending the course.

Course Outlines:

Introduction

Overview of codes used in developing Integrity Management Plans
DOT 49 CFR 195 and 192
Onshore pipeline regulations and CSA Z662 Annex N
NACE Recommended Practice 102
Brief history of the requirement for Integrity Management Plans
ASME B31.8S "Managing System Integrity of Gas Pipelines"
API standard 1160 "Managing System Integrity for Hazardous Liquid pipelines"

Elements of an Integrity Management Plan (IMP)

Threat identification –ASME B31.8S threat categories
Baseline assessment plan
Direct assessment plan

Conducting an assessment

Gathering, reviewing and integrating data
Database: types, GIS software compatibility and risk analysis
Data integration: common systems of reference
Cartographic information
Recordkeeping provisions and communication plans
Performance plan
Management of change process

Case study

Approaches to Risk Assessment Analysis

Objectives of risk assessment
Understanding pipeline failure causes - PRCI's 21 common causes
Data elements for a prescriptive integrity management plan
Data requirements for a goal-oriented (performance-based) approach to IMP
High-consequence areas
Risk to the environment
Quantitative and qualitative methods of risk assessment
Advantages / disadvantages and limitations of each approach
Combined approaches based on the relative importance of different threats

Prevention and Mitigation Measures

Third-party damage
Coating damage and repairs
Cathodic protection close interval surveys
Pipeline patrols, aerial surveillance

Inspection Methods: Characteristics and Limitations

API Standard 1163: In-Line Inspection Systems
Key terms and definitions
Systems qualification process
In-Line inspection system selection
ILI - In-Line Inspection
Types of tools
Tool accuracy and selection
Qualification of performance specifications
System operational validation
System results verification
Reporting requirements
Hydrostatic pressure testing
Direct assessment
ECDA (External Corrosion Direct Assessment
ICDA (Internal Corrosion Direct Assessment)
Practical worked examples of corrosion and crack growth rates
Determination of re-inspection Intervals

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