COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-ofthe-art simulators.

Pipeline Integrity Management is the process of managing pipeline operational risk and mitigating it effectively to ensure pipeline assets are maintained in safe and reliable condition. Pipelines generally constitute a single point failure for any facility which can often result in serious safety, environmental and business consequences once loss of containment has occurred. 

By monitoring the condition of the pipeline, the likelihood of an unplanned failure/shutdown of the pipeline can be prevented. Understanding the condition of the pipeline can also help to improve the planning of pipeline maintenance and inspection activities by identifying key activities in advance to allow the appropriate budgets to be implemented and reduce the amount of spending associated with unplanned activities.  

This course is designed to cover the practical and aspects of Essential PIMS (Pipeline Integrity Management System) including corporate objectives, risk assessment, planning integrity programs, internal inspection tools, anomaly identification and analysis, repair, coating, and pressure testing. Participants will be introduced to the technical basis for determining pipeline integrity. The course will provide information, reinforced by case studies and exercises on pipeline defects, such as corrosion, cracking and third party damage. Methods will be discussed that can be used to make decisions on whether pipeline is fit for service. 

The course will provide participants the best practices on how to manage gathered data from various inspection techniques and apply them in modelling the potential failures. It will also teach attendees on how to optimize the inspection and maintenance resources 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. 

Finally, the course will review the various repair techniques, their advantages and shortcomings and the logic to be followed in making repair decisions and selecting the applicable repair. In addition, pressure testing will be studied, including an exercise based on an actual hydrostatic pressure test.