DON'T BE A RULE BREAKER

摘要

Mark Wright, ROSEN Group, USA, explains how coupling data management and risk management can help meet the requirements of PHMSA's mega rule. Risk assessment is a mandatory activity within integrity management programmes, but it is fair to say that it has often played a relatively minor role in the overall decision-making process. Indeed, operators in the pipeline industry have been much more likely to focus on prescriptive rules and deterministic assessments than rely upon the outputs of a risk assessment for decision-making. The reasons for this vary, but often include reasons such as: Uncertainty over data requirements and data validity.