Experience

Our partners assisted several U.S. Fortune 500 pipeline companies on multiple projects since the inseption of integrity management regulations with the following tasks:

• Development and implemenation of Integrity Management plans, procedures, and supporting documents
• Procedures for identifying segments that could affect high consequence areas, conducting risk assessments, evaluating preventive and mitigative measures, and tracking program performance
• Documented decision-basis for selecting and implementing additional preventive measures based on cost-benefit and risk reduction analysis
• Risk ranking algorithms and comprehensive risk management guidelines
• Process for selecting addtitional emergency valves and evaluating leak detection capabilties
• GIS needs assessments and implementation of pipeline mapping systems to facilitate data managemnt and integration, including data gathering activities to populate PODS database, correction of existing pipeline centerlines or digitizing from paper alignment sheets, preparing NPMS submissions, performing data quality checks, etc.
• Development of precedures and tools for ILI data analysis, review of repair conditions, tracking repair deadlines, and calculating "remaining life" (POE analysis and burst pressure calculations)
• Providing support during PHMSA and state inspections

We can provide the following:

• On-site facility walk-though and component identification
• Guidance and interpretation on jurisdictional boundaries for complex facilities
• Jurisdictional schematic drawings
• Supporting documentation