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Category Archives: Research
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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A Hierarchy of Good Intentions
Many parents will be at least vaguely aware of Piaget’s theory of moral development in children. Kids up to about age 10 tend to think that right and wrong are defined by rules and punishment, regardless of context. Older children … Continue reading
Posted in Eng'g philosophy, Research, Standards
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Gaining wisdom
I have written on a few occasions in the past about how engineering is not absolute and requires a sensible attitude to rules, the ability to be comfortable with uncertainty and some degree of professional wisdom. That was all just … Continue reading
Posted in Eng'g philosophy, Research
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Test pressure factor
Pipeline engineers are familiar with the requirement that the hydrostatic test pressure of a pipeline must be at least 1.25 times the MAOP – see AS 2885.1 Clause 4.5.4 and Equation 4.5.4(1). What seems to be not so well known … Continue reading
Posted in Pipeline design, Research, Standards
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Safety in Design
“Safety in Design” is a research project within the public safety program of the Energy Pipelines Cooperative Research Centre. The focus is on public safety and the research involved interviews with a few dozen engineers from the design teams in … Continue reading
Posted in Eng'g philosophy, Pipeline design, Research
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Joint Technical Meeting 2013
Perhaps everyone who needs to know is already aware of this, but just in case … APIA is part of a tripartite research agreement with PRCI (mostly US) and EPRG (Europe). Every two years there is a joint technical meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Research
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Measurement length – oil, LPG and CO2 pipelines
Received a good question the other day about the measurement length applicable to pipelines carrying oil, LPG or even CO2. I’ve previously written a bit about measurement length here and here, but the emphasis was on gas pipelines. Radiation contours from … Continue reading
Posted in Pipeline design, Research, Risk assessment, Standards
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Recruiting researchers
If you have been reading this blog for a while you know that I’m very keen on the research into sociology of safety under the Energy Pipelines CRC. That research program is looking for another PhD candidate who may (but … Continue reading
SMS Benchmarking
Over the last three years, with the support of the APIA Research and Standards Committee and the Energy Pipelines CRC, I have been running a project to benchmark the AS 2885 safety management study process against other recognised methods of pipeline … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Operations, Pipeline design, Research, Risk assessment, Standards
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Process control for organisations
This post is contributed by Savitha Balu who is a PhD candidate within Research Program 4 of the Energy Pipelines CRC. Her project is about the influence of safety specialists in organisations with the aim of finding the organisational models … Continue reading
Posted in Eng'g philosophy, Operations, Research
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