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Threat and Mitigation Expert, a module of PiMSlider®, is a tool that provides an analysis of pipeline threats and subsequent assignment of actions for their elimination

Input/Output workflow

Risk Distribution for one pipeline

Integrity Model Designer

Inspection Frequency Calculation

Budget Proposal

Preparing a Plan

Pipeline Integrity Management System software is aimed at building an intelligent strategy for maintaining the safety and reliability of energy operators with an efficient use of resources.

The process of integrity assurance can be presented in a simple and concise way as a process of finding a balance between threats for a pipeline, and activities aimed at the reduction of such threats.

The more the threats that act upon a pipeline and "deviate" its integrity towards an unsafe condition, the larger the number of mitigations (and, consequently, resources) are required to neutralise the influence of threats and to attempt to return the pipeline to a normal safe working state.

It is, however, impossible to assure complete safety for a pipeline. At a certain point, "superfluous" mitigations will cease to produce tangible results with respect to integrity and continued application will lead to wasting money on unnecessary tasks.

In order for this approach to bring results, the operator needs to learn how to identify threats (their composition and hazard level), to define a comprehensive list of actions which might eliminate or mitigate the existing threats, and also to create a mechanism which will, preferably automatically, generate a set of actions to eliminate specific threats in a financially efficient way.

Threats & Mitigations Expert contains a comprehensive set of tools for the analysis of pipeline threats and subsequent assignment of actions on their elimination.

Let us take you through the seven easy Threat & Mitigation Expert steps to achieve pipeline safety:

(Note that the process of creating a priority list of inspections for a group of pipelines is no more complicated than clicking a single button "Generate Plan")

1. Create Data Source

Connect Threat & Mitigation Expert to any data source within your company, such as PODS, APDM, Excel or MS Access

2. Define Objects to View

Using Threat & Mitigation Expert, arrange your Data Sources into "Views", giving the end-user Expert a personalised configuration of presenting and analysing data using color-by-value, columns, charts, filtering, sorting and grouping

3. Describe the Factors & Threats

The first critical task for an integrity expert - to define and assess pipeline threats. Threat & Mitigation Expert provides exceptional functionality to describe specific threats, assigns rules to transform values to scores, and manage different types of threats, including aggregated threats for an entire pipeline

4. Describe Mitigations / Actions

To respond to known threats, Experts can describe one or more mitigation measures which, if applied, would decrease or eliminate a specific threat influence.

Mitigation can be described by a set of parameters which help select the most effective solution. Each mitigation measure has a mobilization cost and cost per meter of construction. Other parameters can include defining those mitigations that are incompatible with other mitigations.

5. Create an Integrity Model

The Integrity Model is a hierarchical structure describing the relative risk calculation scheme, and consists of a set of elementary and complex factors:

An Elementary factor is a factor which describes the factor-threat. It has a one-to-one relationship with data in a data source.

A Complex factor is a set of elementary and complex factors which defines their aggregation: e.g. "total sum with weights".

Threat and Mitigation Expert allows the user to define any number of child elementary and complex factor aggregation into a parent factor.The interface therefore allows the Expert to create an integrity model of any level of complexity.

6. Calculating Relative Risk

Relative Risk calculation is calculated as follows:

each elementary factor Value is converted into a Score, for each pipeline interval

an aggregation of each child factor (for each interval) is calculated for each complex factor.

a recursive procedure scans the whole integrity assessment model tree from the bottom to the top (parsing all child and complex factors)

The resulting calculation show the distribution of Score values of all elementary and complex factors (included in the integrity model) along the pipeline.

7. Assign Mitigations / Prioritize

Finally, the Expert will want to see an assignment of mitigations and a priority list of inspections for a group of pipelines.

Threat & Mitigation Expert

Threat and Mitigation Expert, a module of PiMSlider®, is a tool that provides an analysis of pipeline threats and subsequent assignment of actions for their elimination