Health & Safety
Fig. 1. Technology integration enhances the integrity management and the quality of risk assessment.
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Satellite/UAV Remote Sensing
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other channels of data gathering
Risk Assessment Decision Making Process Integrity Management Data Analyzing
Government Regulations Company Regulations
Environment Conditions Construction History
Data of Fabrication and Storage Yard
Physical Data Chemical Data Maintenance Data
Technology integration delivers more powerful integrity management
The complexity of the pipelines means there is no universal technical solution to all the safety challenges. But integration of existing technologies is a step forward. Jie-Wei Chen and Wolfgang Krieg report.
the safety of an energy transport infrastructure remains a great technological challenge. Winning this challenge ultimately depends not only on sensing technology however, which is based on modern physical and chemical knowledge. It also depends on many other related factors such as social education and awareness, government regulations and existing information databases for integrity management. Since the inception of ‘modern’ pipeline maintenance, which may be defined by the quite recent introduction of software-based integrity management systems, various potential threats to the safety of pipelines have needed to be addressed. Tese threats include natural events such as
T
he welfare of all nations depends on the steady flow of oil and gas through reliable pipeline infrastructures. Although the industry has made much progress over recent years, ensuring
landslides or earthquakes, corrosion, accidental third party interference and also criminal action such as fuel theft and terrorist attacks. Te pipeline industry has responded to the growing concern for public safety so that, nowadays, advanced technology for the detection of defects in pipelines is not only a means of protecting an infrastructure, it has far reaching economic and social implications as well. Due to the complexity of the pipeline safety issue, it has been recognised that there is no universal technical solution to all the challenges we face in the real world. Instead, the pipeline industry is realising the enormous value that can be delivered from integrating existing technologies to allow a combined analysis of multiple, independent parameters. Achieving optimum results demands an accurate and well-correlated information database plus powerful software to use and manage the database. Trough these tools we can extract additional intelligence through the integration and
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