STANDARDIZED PIPELINE RISK COMPARISON AND PREDICTION

摘要

This article has discussed and illustrated the value of applying Standardized Pipeline Observation Tools to pipeline assets and facilities, and projecting them across a detailed GIS platform in order to quickly identify and compare design information, asset risks, and asset threats. The authors hope that owners, operators, and regulators of these pipeline systems will consider the examples provided herein and consider incorporating this technology as a part of their ongoing PIM systems. In this article we have tried to demonstrate the capabilities and value of available GIS tools and show that these high pressure pipeline systems share common designs, risks, and threats. We seek to emphasize and encourage the need for governance and industry standardization when it comes to reporting these designs, risks, and threats if the industry is to become more effective at managing pipeline risks and mitigating their probabilities of failure. A commonly accepted reporting standard provides the foundation for comparative assessment and identification of improvement opportunities. Standardization will also improve industry performance and increase public safety. There is growing public concern regarding both new pipeline facilities and the aging infrastructure of existing high pressure pipeline facilities. Industry standardization addressing the application of GIS tools to quantify and report certain design, risk, and threat parameters provides regulators and industry with an unbiased measuring system by which to compare all pipelines of similar service.