Terasen Pipelines (Terasen) owns and operates an 1146 km low vapour pressure petroleum products pipeline between Edmonton, Alberta and Burnaby, British Columbia. Its right-of-way passes through some of the most geotechnically, hydrotechnically, and environmentally challenging terrain in Western Canada. This paper describes the latest advancement of a natural hazards and risk management database application that has supported a 6-year hazard management program to quantitatively assess and prioritize the geotechnical and hydrotechnical risk along the pipeline. This database was first reported at IPC 2002 in a paper entitled “Natural hazard database application — A tool for pipeline decision makers” [1]. This second paper describes the advancements since then, including the addition of the Hydrotechnical Field Inspection Module (FIM), an add-on tool that allows field inspection observations to adjust hazard and vulnerability. This paper discusses the challenges in building a methodology that is practical enough for field maintenance personnel to use yet sufficiently comprehensive to accurately describe improving or worsening hydrotechnical hazard conditions. Functionality to enter hazard inspection data, review inspection results in the office, and authorize changes to the hydrotechnical hazard probabilities are described in the paper and demonstrated in the conference presentation. The relationship between revised hazard, vulnerability, risk, and response thresholds (such as inspection frequency, monitoring, site surveys, or mitigation) are demonstrated using a river crossing with a dynamic hazard history. As in previous years, this paper is targeted to pipeline managers who are seeking a systematic hazard and risk management approach for their natural hazards.
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2004 International Pipeline Conference
October 4–8, 2004
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Conference Sponsors:
- International Petroleum Technology Institute
ISBN:
0-7918-4176-6
PROCEEDINGS PAPER
Field Inspection Module for Hydrotechnical Hazards
Mark Leir,
Mark Leir
BGC Engineering Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Michael Reed,
Michael Reed
Terasen Pipelines Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada
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Eugene Yaremko
Eugene Yaremko
Northwest Hydraulics Consultants Ltd., Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Mark Leir
BGC Engineering Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Michael Reed
Terasen Pipelines Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada
Eugene Yaremko
Northwest Hydraulics Consultants Ltd., Edmonton, AB, Canada
Paper No:
IPC2004-0092, pp. 2597-2602; 6 pages
Published Online:
December 4, 2008
Citation
Leir, M, Reed, M, & Yaremko, E. "Field Inspection Module for Hydrotechnical Hazards." Proceedings of the 2004 International Pipeline Conference. 2004 International Pipeline Conference, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. October 4–8, 2004. pp. 2597-2602. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IPC2004-0092
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