This paper provides a description of the different databases and various influencing factors in the development of a tool to estimate the failure rate of cross-country pipelines. The databases available cover a number of different materials transported: crude oil and liquid products, and natural gas. The various databases give excellent base data to estimate the likelihood of failures of cross-country pipelines. However, it is not sufficient to rely on these databases alone in predicting the failure rate. One needs to include the various factors: design, operating, and environmental in the estimation of the failure rate, which may change along the pipeline ROW (right-of-way).
A tool to estimate the failure rates of cross-country pipelines
2009
9 Seiten, 14 Bilder, 7 Tabellen, 6 Quellen
Conference paper
Storage medium
English
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