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Book Description:

Here's the ideal tool if you're looking for a flexible, straightforward analysis system for your everyday design and operations decisions.
Now expanded and updated, this widely accepted standard reference guides you in managing the risks involved in pipeline operations. You'll also find ways to create a resource allocation model by linking risk with cost and customize the risk assessment technique to your specific requirements. The clear step-by-step instructions and more than 50 examples make it easy. This edition has been expanded to include offshore pipelines and distribution system pipelines as well as cross-country liquid and gas transmission pipelines.

Synopsis:

This reference for managing the risks involved in pipeline operations is expanded and updated. Pipeline engineers, designers, operators and managers have found that the book's risk assessment model is a practical method for analyzing pipeline risks without having to use complicated calculations, huge databases or detailed probability theories. This edition covers many additional aspects of pipeline risk management, including risk and cost of service interruption, risk of sabotage, methods to assess environmentally sensitive and high-value areas, workplace stress and human error potential, and ways to create a resource allocation model by linking risk with cost. The step-by-step instructions and examples that guide users in customizing the risk assessment techniques to their specific requirements have been expanded to include offshore pipelines and distribution system pipelines, as well as cross-country liquid and gas transmission pipelines. In response to the growing acceptance of this risk assessment technique, a new chapter has been added that discusses the analysis, interpretation and practical application of the data generated by the process. These activities utilize accepted quality-management practices, and allow the user to quickly apply the new information to pipeline management decisions.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Risk Evaluation at a Glance
PART I The Basic Risk Assessment Model
Chapter 1 Risk and Quality: Theory and Application
Chapter 2 Risk Assessment Process
Chapter 3 Third Party Damage Index
Chapter 4 Corrosion Index
Chapter 5 Design Index
Chapter 6 Incorrect Operations Index
Chapter 7 Leak Impact Factor
PART II Customizing the Basic Risk Assessment Model
Chapter 8 Scoring Adjustments to Basic Risk
Model
Chapter 9 Sabotage Module
Chapter 10 Stress and Human Errors Module
Chapter 11 Cost of Service Interruption
Module
Chapter 12 Environmental Risk Assessment
Chapter 13 Distribution Systems
Chapter 14 Offshore Pipeline Systems
PART III Risk Management
Chapter 15 Data Analysis
Chapter 16 Cost Risk Relationships
Appendix A Typical Pipeline Products
Appendix B Leak Rate Determination
Appendix C Pipe Wall Thickness Determination
Appendix D Surge Pressure Calculations
Appendix E Pipeline Risk Evaluation Example
Glossary
References
Index