Tracey Murray Appointed to Vice President, Sales & Marketing.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Tracey Murray as Vice President, Sales & Marketing. Tracey joined Dynamic Risk as Manager, Marketing & Communications in 2018. In the four years that Tracey has led our marketing efforts, she has expanded her role into the sales domain and has played an integral role to facilitate […]
Engineering Critical Assessments (ECAs) For MAOP Reconfirmation
The U.S. Pipeline regulatory structure continues to experience significant changes that will facilitate gaining the next level of safety and reliability performance. With the release of Part 1 of the Gas Mega Rule in October of 2019 (effective July 1, 2020), in lieu of replacement or re-testing pipelines, operators have the option of applying […]
The impacts of PHMSA’s Rupture Mitigation Rule for Gas Transmission Operators
PHMSA’s rule related to Rupture Mitigation on gas transmission pipelines, including requirements for remote-controlled valves or automatic shut-off valves, takes effect on October 5th, 2022. Gas Transmission operators must now analyze and understand the potential impact reduction from quicker shutdowns of pipeline segments following a rupture, through the use of both automatic or remote-controlled […]
Agile approaches to quantitative pipeline risk assessment modeling
Pipeline operators are increasingly transitioning their pipeline risk assessment approaches to more objective, quantitative risk models that provide for improved decision making, better ability to manage risk levels to acceptability targets and ultimately, support their integrity programs to eliminate high impact events. Many operators have existing relative index-based risk ranking models that, although characterized […]
Predictive Corrosion Modelling, a Machine-learning approach for Pipeline Integrity
Operators who have embraced a proactive continuous improvement approach to managing their Pipeline Integrity Management Programs are now including elements of data science to efficiently assess large volumes of data for trends and outliers. With structured and normalized data, Data Scientists can construct machine learning models that expose previously unavailable insights and automation. This […]
Dynamic Risk’s Senior Vice President, Mr. Patrick Vieth, receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Pipeline Conference 2022
Patrick Vieth received the Lifetime Achievement Award, hosted at the International Pipeline Conference (IPC) held September 26th to 30th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Nominated by industry leaders and his fellow peers at ASME, Pat received this award for recognition of his tremendous, long-time contributions to advancing the pipeline integrity industry. Pat has been a leader […]
Ask Our Expert Blog Series: Han Wu
Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z662 Proposed Updates: Safety Class (Annex C) What are the main updates for your respective CSA Z662 regulation focus area? The CSA Z662 Class Location Task Force (CLTF) has developed proposed, safety-class based pressure design approach for the 2023 Standard under the non-mandatory Annex C. It is currently out for public […]
MAOP Reconfirmation
Facilities Requirements to Reconfirm MAOP: Requirements to reconfirm Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure (MAOP) and to verify material properties for certain pipeline system components and non-line pipe (“facilities”) also require consideration as part of Gas Mega Rule implementation planning. Dynamic Risk is well versed in assessing which facilities are subject to Gas Mega Rule requirements by […]
Ask Our Expert Blog Series: Dan Williams
Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z662:23 Proposed Updates: Risk Assessment What are the main updates proposed for the CSA Z662:23 Standard pertaining to Risk Assessment? The CSA Z662 Risk Management Task Force has developed proposed, quantitative Safety Risk and Environmental Risk acceptance guidelines for the 2023 Standard (Standard recently out for public review) as part of […]