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Transmission Integrity Management Programs - Interest Group
ActivityPlan-TIMP Interest Group
Updated: February 17, 2008
Governance
- Chairman
Chris Bullock, CenterPoint Energy Pipeline Services
- Vice-Chairman & Operating Conference Round Table Chairman
Virgil Wallace, Williams Gas Pipeline
- Operating Conference Round Table Vice-Chairman
Garry Matocha, Spectra Energy
- alternative representative
- Immediate Past Committee Co-Chairman (2007)
Bob Travers, Spectra Energy Gas Transmission
- Chris Whitney, El Paso Corporation
- Jerry Rau. Panhandle Energy Company
- Henry Wang, Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP
- Shawn Miller, Dominion
- Melanie Hosey, Enbridge
- Michael McGrath, Alliance Pipeline, Inc.
- Charlie Childs, El Paso Corporation - alternate representative
- Lance Shepherd, CenterPoint Energy - alternative representative
- Keith Leewis, Consultant to SGA, P-PIC
- Fraser Farmer, SGA (ffarmer@southerngas.org)
- Mike Grubb, SGA (mgrubb@southerngsa.org)
Committee reports to: Transmission Operating Section Managing Committee.
Group Purpose
- Build community within this peer group
- Engage this Interest Group in dialogue to facilitate the exchange of information
- Manage training and education relevant to this Interest Group
Scope
Focus on safely, effectively, and efficiently managing the lifecycle of pipelines:
- Technologies
- Processes
- Best Practices
- Lessons Learned
- Regulations
- Standards
Areas of Focus
- Regulations and Standards
- Audit Processes
- Incident Investigation
- Root Cause Analysis
- Threat Analysis
- HCA identification
- Prevention & Mitigation (Materials, CP, Over-pressure control, One-call, tapes, signs ++)
- Quality Assurance
- Management of Change
- Information Integration, information, software
- Assessment Strategies
- In-Line Inspection
- Direct Assessment, ECDA, ICDA, SCCDA, CDA
- Hydrostatic Testing
- Field Data Gathering
- Patrols, Remote sensing
- SCADA
- Leak Detection
- Design, pipeline routing, MAOP
- Emergency Response: Planning, exercises
- Repair, remediation: Prioritization, techniques
- Risk management: techniques, software
- Recordkeeping and reporting
- Workflow management
- Performance Measures
- Personnel and Contractor Qualifications
- Emerging Technologies, R&D
- Communication Plan
Audience
- Head office Pipeline Integrity Management staff
Activities
- July 22-24, 2008; Hyatt Regency Downtown; Atlanta, GA
- Chair: Virgil Wallace, Williams
- Co-Chair: Garry Matocha, Spectra Energy
- Sample of Other Potential Activities:
- Mechanical Damage Prevention Web Conference Series (review and advise)
- Liaison with the Pipeline Construction, Operations and Maintenance Interest Group and others to facilitate joint activities
- Conduct periodic web or audio conferences to facilitate the exchange of ideas that improve operating safety and efficiency.
- Contribute to enhancement and vitality of SGA web-based Transmission Integrity Management ‘Community of Practice’.
Process
- Identify issues / challenges
- Facilitate conversation (leads to the discovery of ideas and possible solutions)
- Educate, collaborate, and/or train
- Implementation
- Lessons learned
- Best practices
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