NYSEARCH Cased Pipe Integrity Assurance Model
New Century Software, through a cooperative agreement with the Northeast Gas Association, has been selected as the exclusive licensor of the NYSEARCH Cased Pipe Integrity Assurance Model to the oil and gas pipeline and gas distribution industries. This model helps operators improve pipeline safety and meet the requirements of 49 CFR 192 Subpart O by providing the ability to prioritize pipeline integrity management actions for cased pipelines, specifically non-piggable transmission pipelines. The result is better characterized actual risk and cost savings through the prevention of unnecessary excavations and inspections. Developed jointly by NYSEARCH, DNV, WKM Consulting, and 16 gas pipeline operators from across the United States, the Cased Pipeline Integrity Assurance Model uses information stored in a variety of formats to provide an assessment of risk for cased pipe.
Gas pipeline operators have the ability to purchase the NYSEARCH Cased Pipe Integrity Assurance Model integrated into New Century Software’s Spatial Risk Analyst application. Together they use industry-leading risk principles to evaluate and categorize the threat level for cased pipe in the operator’s system. Using the assessment results, remediation efforts can be focused on the cased pipes that are most at risk, while pipe found to be susceptible but not at risk can be addressed using specific efforts to identify the contributing factor or factors.
The model examines threats in the categories of:
- Time-dependent
- Static or resident
- Time independent or random
The NYSEARCH Cased Pipe Integrity Assurance Model is available in Spatial Risk Analyst as a ready-to-use package. Setup for the model involves identifying data sources and configuring the data connections to read the appropriate information. Once configured, the model provides calculated results for each factor as well as providing interpretative information for each cased pipe to help guide selection of appropriate repair or mitigation measures. Results can be returned as a file, database table, or ArcGIS feature.
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