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Author Archives: petertuft
Reincarnation
Well not exactly. I’m not resurrecting this blog nearly 5 years after the last post. But since it still has a few hundred followers, and some of you might still be working in the industry and even have email addresses … Continue reading
Posted in Standards
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Passing the baton
Although I’m not planning to add to this blog I’m delighted that Susan Jaques has started PipelinesOz 2 to continue its spirit. She has already written a few posts (not just the one linked here) and I look forward to more. Blogs … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Closure (?)
I get annoyed when I find an interesting blog that hasn’t been updated for months or years. Hmmm. My last post was in January 2014, over two years ago. I just ran out of inspiration as unexpectedly as I found … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Approval revisited
It’s quite a long time since I wrote about approval under AS 2885. Since then the 2012 amendment to AS 2885.0 added considerable detail although the basic requirement that certain items must be approved by the “Licensee” remains unchanged. Nevertheless there is still … Continue reading
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San Bruno – organisational analysis
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
Posted in Incidents, Research, Risk assessment, Standards
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SMS preparation
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
Posted in Pipeline design, Risk assessment, Standards
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Risk matrix selection
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
Posted in Risk assessment, Standards
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Penetration resistance – existing pipelines
I’ve written before about penetration resistance and the B-factor as specified by AS 2885.1 Appendix M, but that post didn’t distinguish between design of a new pipeline and review of an existing line. From time to time I see confusion in … Continue reading
Road crossings and high design factor
The rules for allowable stress at road crossings are given in Clause 5.7.3(c) of AS 2885.1. Recently I had an interesting query which illustrated a bit of a gap in these rules. Basically the combined equivalent stress should be calculated … Continue reading
Posted in Operations, Pipeline design, Standards, Uncategorized
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APIA Convention 2013
I’m at the APIA Convention, shortly before going to the closing dinner. For those who are here or have been to Conventions in the past it needs no description. For those who haven’t it is an amazing combination of conference, trade … Continue reading
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