Monthly Archives: November 2013

San Bruno – organisational analysis

Posted on November 29, 2013 by petertuft

If you are in this industry you must be aware of the San Bruno failure in September 2010. The immediate causes are now well known.  Equally interesting is recent analysis of the underlying organisational failures in both the pipeline owner … Continue reading →

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SMS preparation

Posted on November 27, 2013 by petertuft

The most prolific commenter on this blog is Chris Hughes of OSD who is passionate about good pipeline engineering.  Chris and I communicate regularly off-line as well, and he has offered the following for me to reproduce here.  I’ll add … Continue reading →

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Risk matrix selection

Posted on November 22, 2013 by petertuft

I am surprised too often by people who think that they can do an AS 2885 risk assessment by using some risk matrix other than that published in the Standard.  AS 2885.1 makes quite clear that risk evaluation must be … Continue reading →

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