Why do we need integrity management programs?

Transmission

For many of our clients, improved analytics is a key driver for choosing an integrity management solution. The need to extract value from data and perform analytics to support and drive decisions is no longer a desired state, it’s a must. In today’s environment, operators are charged with minimizing risk, meeting regulatory compliance standards, and operating efficiently.

Operators want to improve system performance, processes and procedures to increase the efficiency and accuracy of their reporting. The attributes of a rolling implementation play a key role in meeting these goals.

Upstream/Midstream

For upstream asset integrity management, you must have a complete and accurate asset inventory, which allows you to correctly prioritize your incident response and put effective actions in place that will safeguard the public, the environment and your operations.

Dynamic Risk offers unique and industry-leading risk assessments that help you understand your over-life threats, consequences, and focus mitigation and repair activities on at-risk assets before a costly failure occurs.

WHAT IS PIPELINE INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT?

Dynamic Risk is an industry leader in developing and implementing world-class risk management solutions. Our approach is flexible and accommodates everything from full development of a comprehensive model, to the implementation of our industry leading fully functional risk models.

 

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Framework of Pipeline Integrity Management

Dynamic Risk is an industry leader in developing and implementing world-class risk management solutions. Our strategic focus on innovation ensures that our clients benefit from state of-the-art solutions for threat assessments and consequence modeling, including the development of qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative risk solutions.

Our team provides each of our clients with a risk model solution that best fits their needs whether it’s corporate, regulatory, or operational and we achieve this by providing an agile-based risk model development and implementation process. Our approach is flexible and accommodates everything from full development of a comprehensive model, to the implementation of our industry leading fully functional risk models.

 

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Pipeline Integrity Management Consulting Services

Engineering Assistance

    • Pipeline Regulatory Compliance Support: Dynamic Risk provides industry leading regulatory support to pipeline operators in which our services and applications have supported over 75 audits at the Federal, State and Provincial level.
    • ILI Data Calibration, Alignment, Integration & Analysis: Dynamic Risk provides our clients with ILI data expertise, a solid technical understanding of ILI analysis, management and efficient data assurance and validation.
    • Integrity Data Management Services: Dynamic Risk has a strong technical understanding of pipeline integrity data. Our team comprises experienced integrity data analysts with a deep understanding and focus on engineering, ILI, GIS, from the wellhead to big-inch cross country transmission pipelines.
    • Incident Investigation: Our experts have active relationships with regulators and stakeholders, providing external credibility and appropriate support.
    • Engineering Assessments: Whether your needs relate to the management of existing infrastructure or new pipeline construction projects, we have the technology and engineering expertise to assist you with risk-based decision making.
    • Operator Staff Augmentation: Our dedicated team of subject matter experts are available to work as an extension of your integrity management team and are equipped with proprietary software solutions for managing operational risk, regulatory compliance and providing integrity program support
    • Outflow Analysis: Dynamic Risk provides detailed outflow modeling to support consequence and risk assessment for liquids pipelines. Our approach is based on a 4-phase calculation including detection time, pump shut-down, valve closure and gravity drain down. Detailed outflow release volumes can be incorporated within our clients’ risk assessments, leading to more accurate environment consequence results and improved risk results.
    • Overland Spill Modelling: Dynamic Risk’s transient three-dimensional overland spill model leverages the outflow volume results and detailed digital elevation data to determine the migration paths of a liquid product spill based on agreed upon scenarios. Specifically, the model can be used to determine whether the spill plume would intersect waterbodies, waterways, HCAs or any defined sensitive areas. Further analysis can be done for Hydrological Transport Modeling by considering flow direction and connectivity between streams and waterbodies as required.
    • Valve Optimization Analysis: We provide analysis of outflow volumes and their associated spill plumes that can be used to evaluate valve configuration and optimization, as well as valve maintenance activity planning and prioritization. This assists operators with determining the optimal valve placements to achieve the most reduction in outflow volumes, keeping cost benefit analysis in mind.

Field Services

    • Asset Inventory Management: Geotagging of key assets such as wellheads, pipelines and surface equipment.
    • Inspection /Assessment Program Support: Optimization of pipeline integrity programs to manage the risk of failure.
    • Risk Based Inspection: Prioritization of inspection and monitoring programs based on a customized risk algorithm.
    • System Mapping and Schematic Support: Create the source of truth dataset to maintain pipeline connectivity networks.
    • Project Management: Turnkey project management to provide oversight on all aspects of pipeline integrity projects

Management and Advisory Consulting

    • Strategic/Management Consulting:
        • Our team of experts have decades of industry experience in operational risk and integrity services. We partner with the best experts in their field to provide strategic guidance and consulting services that accurately meets project requirements.
    • Industry Comparative Analysis & Benchmarking:
        • We provide complete in-depth research and analysis to obtain an accurate industry comparison of client integrity and risk management programs. Our extensive client base across North America provides knowledgeable access to best practices and innovative solutions applied across the industry.
    • Enterprise Risk Management:
        • Our expertise includes both quantitative and qualitative assessments and scenario analysis. We can provide insight into potential areas where risk exceeds corporate thresholds for further evaluation and mitigation planning.
    • Mergers & Acquisition Support:
        • Our team brings integrity and risk management expertise, operational working knowledge and regulatory compliance awareness to support your asset acquisition initiatives and due diligence programs. Eliminate surprises and protect your acquisition profit margin by incorporating operational risk management into your due diligence program.
    • Integration Strategy & Execution:
        • We can provide expert advice and recommendations to ensure efficient and on-time program solution implementation. Our services include long range planning, data management strategy development, data integration and work flow design.
    • Expert Witness Support:
        • We have key experts that can provide strategic advice and support involving any pipeline integrity related litigation procedure. Our offering includes advice, support and analysis required to support litigation and legal processes.
    • DOT Regulatory Audit:
        • Our team of professionals provide consulting services for company-wide operations, maintenance, safety and compliance programs, including DOT regulatory audit preparation, audit support and audit findings response planning.

 

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Transmission/Midstream Integrity Management Software

The IRAS Suite of applications is the most widely deployed risk management software in North America. Configurable and user-friendly, the IRAS platform integrates pipelines, operations, repairs, maintenance activities, inspections, pipeline threats, consequences, and other critical data, programmatically ensuring data accuracy and security. The end results are comprehensive self-serve analytics, reporting and GIS-based maps that help plan and schedule activities across an organization, improving operational awareness, and decreasing costs.

Enterprise Risk Management

Our experts leverage in-place risk management studies and models, as well as integrity program datasets in application with appropriate elements of industry standards to develop effective enterprise risk management applications. By assessing, managing and integrating risks from both operational and business points of view, a pipeline operator can better manage risk and mitigation interdependencies and drive for consistency among all lines of business.

Our pipeline risk assessment expertise and technology include the following core areas:

    • Risk assessment in support of acquisition & divestiture
    • Risk assessment in support of conceptual, preliminary and/or final risk-based design
    • Design phase integrity analysis and planning support
    • Operational risk assessment
    • Change of service risk assessment
    • Investment Planning

 

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Upstream Services

For upstream asset integrity management, you must have a complete and accurate asset inventory, which allows you to correctly prioritize your incident response and put effective actions in place that will safeguard the public, the environment and your operations.

Whether you are concerned with wells, pipelines or production facilities we work with you to develop industry leading integrity management plans, operating manuals and solutions that improve your system reliability and lower your operating costs.

 

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Pipeline Integrity System Software

Upstream / Midstream

A complete and accurate asset inventory is a key component for upstream asset integrity management and allows you to correctly prioritize mitigations and repairs and put effective actions in place that will safeguard the public, the environment and your operations.

Explorer provides upstream operators the ability to manage, view, analyze, report and plan work activities across their entire asset integrity team via desktop, web platform or mobile tablets. Key features include:

    • Consolidate and manage your pipeline integrity data from any source
      • Data can be displayed in a variety of formats including charts, tabs and map symbology
      • Identify high risk segments, track action items and plan integrity management activities
      • Documentation can be easily accessed and utilized for regulatory audits
      • Advanced reporting for confident and trusted decision making

Pipeline Integrity Management Plan

Pipeline operators alike are recognizing the need to have an improved understanding of their managed assets to protect capital investment, mitigate risk, ensure public safety, as well as adhere to new state/federal regulations.

We are uniquely positioned to provide private equity firms and midstream operators best in class pipeline integrity management solutions to ensure safe and reliable pipeline operations throughout the entire asset life cycle.

Our scalable and flexible approach fully enables the Establishment, Maintenance and Transfer of Integrity for the full life cycle of your midstream assets.

 

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Pipeline Risk Assessments

Our consulting services assist our clients to effectively manage asset risk from construction or acquisition, through to operations and maintenance, and finally to abandonment or divestiture. Our clients receive improved system safety and reliability, higher asset performance and overall lower operational costs.

Our team provides each of our clients with a risk model solution that best fits their needs whether it’s corporate, regulatory, or operational. We achieve this by providing an agile-based risk model development and implementation process. Our approach is flexible and accommodates everything from a full development of a comprehensive model, to the implementation of our industry leading fully functional risk models.

Our pipeline risk assessment expertise and technology include the following core areas:

    • Risk assessment in support of acquisition & divestiture
    • Risk assessment in support of conceptual, preliminary and/or final risk-based design
    • Design phase integrity analysis and planning support
    • Operational risk assessment
    • Change of service risk assessment
    • Investment Planning

 

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Key benefits of Dynamic Risk’s software for pipeline integrity management

    • Improved safety and environmental protection
    • Best-in-class engineering expertise
    • Reduced capital spend through a risk based approach
    • Proven results for reduced risk and greater system reliability

Dynamic Risk supports:

    • 100+ operators across North America
    • Upstream gathering pipeline operators

Transmission and Midstream Pipeline Acquisition and Divestiture Support

Investors and operators alike are recognizing the need to have an improved understanding of their managed assets to protect capital investment, mitigate risk, ensure public safety, as well as adhere to new state/federal regulations.

We are uniquely positioned to provide private equity firms and midstream operators best in class pipeline integrity management solutions to ensure safe and reliable pipeline operations throughout the entire asset life cycle.

Our scalable and flexible approach fully enables the Establishment, Maintenance and Transfer of Integrity for the full life cycle of your midstream assets.

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Pipeline Regulations

As the public and pipelines continue to encroach on each other, operators need an effective solution to ensure safe operations and adhere to regulatory standards.  Our midstream solutions enable users to conduct a comprehensive review of their organization’s adherence to best practice safety measures, efficiently and accurately determine Class Location, as well as identify high consequence areas (HCA).

PHMSA’s Mega Rule for Gas Transmission Pipelines

On October 1, 2019, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) finalized a rule for gas transmission pipelines which has been in development for over eight years.  This highly anticipated rule, referred to by many as the “Gas Mega Rule”, is considered to be the most significant change to the existing gas pipeline regulations1 since 1970 and is likely to have a significant impact on the operation of gas transmission assets in the United States.

 

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