SGA Web Conference

- safely managing the life cycle of pipelines

Transmission Integrity Management Programs (TIMP)

- the challenges of implementation

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Session 5: Information Integration

Recorded Monday, April 14 , 2008

In order to carry out risk analysis and HCA identification and to track remedial projects, a pipeline operator must deal with vast amounts of location specific information about the pipe; the pipeline; and the area surrounding the pipeline.

This session explores information integration in order to improve operational business decisions and to provide documention for regulatory compliance purposes.

The Web Conference Session

This session included the following presentations:

• The Process - Understanding the purposes of data integration
  Tom Bubenik, CC Technologies/DNV
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• Operator Experiences - Purpose; Impact; Value; Incident analysis; Geographical/historical data
  Chris Bullock, Sr. Pipeline Integrity Engineer, CenterPoint Energy
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• The Process- The challenges of integrating ILI data sets with both spatial and non-spatial pipeline data sets.
  Trevor MacFarlane, Dynamic Risk Assessment  Systems
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• Operator Experiences - Data mining; New assets; Data alignment; Beyond HCAs; PODS
  Larry Abbott, Manager - Engineering Records & Data, ONEOK Partners PIM
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• Metrics and Reporting - Benchmarking; Data consistency
  Bernie Selig, P-PIC: ( INGAA project manager for collecting such data for about 120,000 miles of pipeline).
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