Risk-Based Maintenance Planning of Cross-Country Pipelines
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 19, Issue 2
Abstract
The oil and gas industry represents a significant source of income for many countries in the world. The industry considers cross-country pipelines, which transport petrochemical products, to be one of their major investments. Hence, there is a need to sustain, preserve, and prolong the life of this investment through good management practices. This paper presents a rational and systematic method for maintenance management of these pipelines. It is a risk-based approach that uses an analytical hierarchy process model to determine the probability of pipeline failure and the expected value approach to determine the expected costs of failure. The method was applied on nine operating cross-country pipelines transporting different petrochemical products. The method is helpful in prioritizing pipelines for annual maintenance planning and in ranking causes of failure by severity of impact.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to express their appreciation to King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals for providing various facilities for conducting this research, and to the engineers: Mr. Trevor Lewis, Mr. Williams Fairbank, Mr. Waleed Utaibi, Mr. Douglass Henry, and Mr. Khalifah Turki for their valuable assistance in this research.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 19 • Issue 2 • May 2005
Pages: 124 - 131
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© 2005 ASCE.
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Received: Feb 25, 2003
Accepted: Aug 11, 2003
Published online: May 1, 2005
Published in print: May 2005
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