Pipeline Integrity Management
Ubisense Smallworld Pedigree
Ubisense is a leading provider of geospatial solutions for the gas, electric and communications industries. Ubisense has a proven track record of working with gas transmission operators, including Dominion Resources, Duke Energy, Xcel Energy, and PSNC. These projects included the implementation of linear referencing, HCA calculation and business processes, interfaces to risk analysis engines, creation of alignment sheets, and extensive data integration work to build a complete solution for gas transmission operators.
Are You Ready for Pipeline Integrity Management?In today’s highly regulated, public safety conscious environment, operating companies must make the best use oftechnology to help them manage and analyze their pipeline integrity information. Compliance with federal regulations has added critical emphasis and timeliness to the tasks involved.
Ubisense offers the business understanding and technical skills to tackle key compliance requirements such as HCA calculations, data integration and alignment, risk analysis and pipeline maintenance planning from a spatial perspective. Spatial support helps to make the required effort more manageable and repeatable with better accuracy. Our approach leads you through the process of planning for this important compliance mandate.
The service is typically structured over a six to eight week period, but the components and timing may be adjusted to suit your requirements.
How Our Planning Service WorksWe start with a workshop to gather information on your existing integrity management business processes, data sources and data consumers as well as your current technical environment. We then work with your key people to design new processes and a technical architecture that will help you to spatially manage your High Consequence Area calculations, Risk Analysis reviews and pipeline maintenance planning. Optionally, we can implement a pilot using your data to demonstrate the concepts using GE Smallworld™ or another GIS platform. Steps in preparing the plan and design would include:
Business process analysis
- Identify current and future processes
- Correlate processes to critical pipeline data elements
- Document processes to support federal audits
Data sources and needs analysis
- Document data elements for regulatory compliance
- Identify system and process interactions with elements
- Find data gaps in your current and future systems
Risk analysis review
- Review the data elements required to support pipeline risk analysis
- Understand third party products available to implement risk analysis calculations
- Define the system data and interface required for risk analysis
Answering key questionsDuring on-site interviews, we’ll work with your team to answer the key questions that will determine spatial support for your integrity management program.
Pipeline assessment planning reviewWe will review:
- GPS data modelling
- Linear referencing and PODS
- Overall architecture
- HCA calculations review
- Preparation of project plan
- Review and agree on Implementation plan with Client
- Presentation to management
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