PREVENTATIVE AND MITIGATIVE MEASURES ANALYSIS

Our experts help operators identify cost effective risk reduction activities and use risk management to schedule them appropriately.

Regulations for natural gas and hazardous liquids pipeline facilities require ongoing preventive and mitigative (P&M) measures reviews—annual, comprehensive P&M measures review is required.  To satisfy regulations, Integrity Solutions offers a complete and comprehensive P&M measures review package.  We assess data from all relevant sources, build an operator-specific P&M measures tracking sheet, facilitate your annual P&M measures meetings, and deliver a comprehensive P&M measures status report—all of which you can use to track your progress and establish compliance.

The regulations recognize that your funds are limited, and the implementation of P&M measures may need to be prioritized. But PHMSA also expects operators to provide a schedule for when additional P&M measures will be implemented.  An Integrity Solutions P&M measures review helps you use risk management to spend your limited funds more effectively, prioritizing for higher risk and scheduling additional measures into the future to stay within your budget, documenting the details for prioritization or for declining certain proposed measures. 

Our analysis begins with the regulations and with ASME B31.8S (gas pipelines) and API 1160 (hazardous liquids pipelines), but also considers multiple PHMSA updates, advisory bulletins, FAQs, and more.

Multiple sources potentially feed to the comprehensive P&M measure review, including:

• Part 195 high consequence area (HCA) and emergency flow-restriction device (EFRD) analyses*
• Part 192 HCA / population class and automated shutoff valve (ASV) analyses*
• Part 195 leak review*
• CalFire review*
• Pressure cycle analysis
• Risk analysis
• Hydro and ILI post-assessment reports
• Repair data
• Public awareness and damage prevention programs
• Operator Qualification program reviews
• Procedure reviews
• Integrity management program (IMP) performance and effectiveness reviews
• Discussions with your subject matter experts (SMEs)

*Required by code

A key piece of this is an Integrity Solutions risk analysis, performed with our proprietary Pipeline & Facility Integrity Manager™ (PFIM™) software. This analysis alone can assist with the following:

• P&M Measure Scenarios – Our risk software models multiple P&M measures scenarios and provides for activity cost vs risk-reduction benefit ratio comparisons.

• Tiered Risk Analysis – Establishes each P&M measure’s tiered (relative risk) priority and schedule for up to thousands of pipeline segments.

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Our comprehensive P&M measures reviews provide so much more, including a Resource Allocation Plan – A multi-year capital and maintenance plan with risk-based justification, resource capacity planning, budget metrics, and projected IMP cost reductions.