Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The major cause of natural gas pipeline rupture is not corrosion or material defect but external damage.
External damage is the damage to pipeline during digging, pilling, ground work, etc. by heavy equipment such as anchor, bulldozer, excavator, or plough. Moreover typically the external damage is from third party construction activities ...
Posted in Failure Data, LNG, Natural Gas Pipelines | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
How would you answer the following question:
Is refinery A safer than refinery B?
I know a few of you would recommend quantifying risks in each refinery. This will enable us to estimate how many fatalities (on-site and off-site) can occur in the two refineries. We can thus use the predicted ...
Posted in Consequence Modeling, Failure Data, Risk Analysis | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Following the release of natural gas, it can be ignited resulting in fire which in turn can potentially result in an explosion. So how likely will a gas release ignite?If you are interested in the major failure modes for natural gas transmission pipelines reported, please refer to an earlier post ...
Posted in Failure Data, Fires and explosions, Natural Gas Pipelines | No Comments »
Monday, July 20th, 2009
A few weeks ago I met with Cesar de Leon who is a pipeline safety expert (http://www.pipelinesafetyconsultant.com) - he worked at the DOT Office of Pipeline Safety for over 23 years and currently resides in Boerne, Texas. Cesar was telling me about legal and technical issues arising in the ...
Posted in Natural Gas Pipelines, Regulations | 1 Comment »
