Transcript Cheryl Trench, President Allegro Energy Consulting

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ENERGY CONSULTING
Corro
sion
A Tour of Lessons Learned from
PHMSA Accident Data
Prepared by Cheryl J. Trench
President
Allegro Energy Consulting
For the Pipeline Safety Trust’s 2011 Conference
Allegro Energy Consulting
P.O. Box 230592  New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 787-6923  Fax: (212) 721-9028
[email protected]
November 17, 2011
New Orleans, LA
© Cheryl J. Trench, 2011
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ENERGY CONSULTING
Differentiate!
 External versus internal corrosion
 Mainline pipe versus station (facilities) piping
 Characteristics plus prevention / mitigation
 Commodity characteristics
 Crude versus refined product or HVL, e.g.
 Flow characteristics
 Turbulent ?
 Operator: “I’ve never seen an internal corrosion
release in a line with turbulent flow”
 Dead leg? Drain or relief line?
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Corrosion Location? System Part?
Overall, More on Onshore Pipe
[245 v 125 in station piping]
More Internal Corr. In Stations
[105 v 76 in onshore pipe]
Onshore
Pipe
Station
Piping
Other
Parts
Number of incidents, PHMSA 7000-1, 2002-2009, onshore pipe, 5 bbls or more, or death,
injury, fire, explosion, water pollution or $ damage>$50K ; other parts: tanks, caverns, offshore
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What about Year-to-Year?
Onshore Pipe
Station Piping
External Corrosion
Internal Corrosion
Internal Corrosion
External
Number of incidents, PHMSA 7000-1, 2002-2009, onshore pipe, 5 bbls or more, or death,
injury, fire, explosion, water pollution or $ damage>$50K ; other parts: tanks, caverns, offshore
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Which Commodities?
For Internal Corrosion, Crude Oil
Onshore Pipeline
Station Piping
Number of incidents, PHMSA 7000-1, 2002-2009, onshore pipe, 5 bbls or more, or death,
injury, fire, explosion, water pollution or $ damage>$50K ; other parts: tanks, caverns, offshore
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ENERGY CONSULTING
Data Mining Team Has Addressed
 Facilities Releases:
 Special survey on relief lines, drain lines, dead legs,
small pipe diameter and tubing, inspection practices
 Additions to PPTS Survey (PHMSA, too) : more detail on
flow, small piping and tubing, fittings
 http://www.api.org/aboutoilgas/sectors/PPTS/upload/200
9_5PPTS_Operator_Advisory_Facilities_OTC_Final.pdf
 Corrosion on mainline pipe and in facilities:
 http://www.api.org/aboutoilgas/sectors/PPTS/pptsadvisories.cfm [coming in Dec. 2011]
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ENERGY CONSULTING
Sidebar: Internal Corrosion
and Canadian Crude
 From PHMSA accident data
 Which lines with interconnections to Canadian crude
have had internal corrosion releases?
 From Energy Information Administration
 Form 814; shipment-by-shipment crude imports
 Which refineries are getting Canadian crude?
 From pipeline industry info
 How would it get there? Interconnections for crude oil
transport, including storage hubs
ANSWER: NOT ONE
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ENERGY CONSULTING
Sidebar [cont’d]
 Checked with operator for each crude oil internal
corrosion release in an appropriate state
 Each one transporting domestic crude (Williston Basin,
CO, KS, OK)
 FYI, operators took mitigative action
 One line now has a connection to AB crude (via
Cushing) but did not at the time of release (2004)
No internal corrosion crude releases
on U.S. mainline pipe have
involved oil sands crude oil
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ENERGY CONSULTING
Observations on Tool Data:
More Complicated than You’d Think!
 Tool runs for point of release recorded since 2002
 Tool type, year of run
Have previously compiled tool data by cause
 Right tool?
 Timing?
 Previously damaged pipe, e.g.: don’t know if tool run
before or after damage
 External corrosion: found that many properly called,
but had already turned into weeper by excavation
 Signature recognizable? Tool smart enough?
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Number of Releases per Year
ENERGY CONSULTING
82% Improvement in
ROW Record for Pre-1950s Pipe
External Corrosion
Seams,
Welds
Internal Corrosion