Pipeline Damage Determined from Historical Data
Number: 00S16. Issue: Spring 2000
Author[s]:
Tamisha Jones
Civil and Environmental Engineering Major, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Robert G. Bea
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Keywords:
pipeline damage, corrosion
Abstract:
Through the investigation and analysis of pipeline damage, the oil and gas industry can achieve significant economic improvements by ensuring pipeline reliability. By analysis of historical data in a government database (MMS), basic causes of damage are identified for both oil and gas pipelines. Corrosion is identified as a primary cause of damage, and the relationship between oil and gas products and ratios of corrosion damage is investigated. Both oil and gas pipelines, surprisingly, have the same percentage of pipelines with corrosion damage. Because this is counterintuitive to previous hypotheses, this paper investigates the idea that gas pipelines as delineated in the government database carry many types of gas products, one of which may distort the results for the ratio of corrosion damage for gas pipelines as a whole.
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