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Published PL International Articles

Article	ID	Written	Published	Notes	More
PL Risk Assessment Essential Elements’s	1	3/1/2012			Essential Elements
PL Risk Assessment as a measurement tool	2	6/1/2012	June 2012	Scores are no longer needed.	outdated methods
RA controlling the bias (PXX)	3	9/1/2012	Sept 2012	An essential element in risk assessment.	conservatism
Risk profiling	4	12/1/2012	Mar 2012	An essential starting point for risk mgmt.	QA/QC tools, RM tools
Threat Interaction—A Case of Confusing Terminology	5	3/1/2013	Mar 2013	Sometimes guidance docs get it wrong.	threat interaction, missteps, guidance, guidance2
Myth Busting—I don’t have enough data	6.2	4/1/2013	June 2013	There is always ‘some’ data available.	data myth
Myth Busting—I don’t have enough data (Part 2)	6.3	9/1/2013	Sep 2013	Let’s not confuse data availability with risk modeling	data myth2
Measuring Failure Potential—What is Attacking?  How Effective are Defenses?  Can it Survive?	7	11/1/2013	Dec 2013	The only way to truly understand failure potential.	basic concepts
Formal Risk Assessment—Is it helping me?	8	2/1/2014	Mar 2014	Beyond regulatory compliance, risk assessment should be a valued tool.	Special applications
Troubles with Weightings	9	6/1/2014		once thought necessary, these are now recognized as problematic	weightings
Q&A with a PL Risk Expert	10				interview
PL RA as a tool for resolving conflict	11	12/1/2014		why debate subjectively when you have an objective tool available?	Special applications
Where is the Risk Control Strategy?	12	2/1/2015		Strategizing may be different from managing.	strategy
Due Diligence	13	4/1/2015		risk assessment should be a part of any acquisition	diligence
The Economics of  Acceptable Risk	14	9/1/2015	Sept 2015	How to set target risk levels	acceptable
Certification:  The Leaning Tree Incident	15	11/1/2015	Dec 2015	What does a risk assessment really need to include?	certification blog; gaining certification
Damage vs Failure—A Risk Assessment Needs to Know the Difference	16	2/1/2016	Mar 2016	An important distinction	damage
ILI vs DA—The Risk View	17	Apr 2016	June 2016	These 2 techniques have very different risk implications	ILI-DA
Risk is PoF x CoF—Where Should the Focus Be?	18	7/1/2016	Sept 2016	Risk mgmt is often best focused on one side of the equation	beginningRM
Updating Guidance Documents for Pipeline	19	10/1/2016			guidance, guidance2
Threat Identification and Risk Assessment
Words Matter	20	1/1/2017			myths1, missteps
Exciting Times for Pipeline Risk Management	21	5/1/2017	June 2017	Being able to do real cost/benefit analyses is a ‘game changer’	better, cost-benefits
Optimizing Inspection Info in a Risk Assessment	22	8/1/2017	Sept 2017	How to properly use inspection results in risk assessment	Inspections / Assessments
Getting Info From SME’s–Facilitation	23	10/1/2017	Dec 2017	Data collection from SME’s	RA tools
The Essential Elements	24	2/1/2018	Mar 2018	Revisit the basic building blocks of modern risk assessmetn	Essential Elements
Analyses of Risk Estimates—How to Begin	25	5/1/2018	June 2018	histograms, profiles, QA/QC of risk estimates	RM tools
Seduced by Graphics—The Myth of Risk Management by Images	26	7/1/2018	Fall 2018	Some attempts to summarize risk cause problems
Avoiding Missteps:  Risk vs Rate of Risk	27	10/1/2018	Winter 2018	Pipeline segment length can hide important info
Don’t Worry, We Did an ILI	28	3/1/2019	Mar 2019	ILI from a risk mgmt perspective	inspections / assessments
Life-Cycle Risk Assessment—An HDD Example	29	5/1/2019	June 2019	Construction planning benefits from RA.	HDD
What are they missing	30	8/1/2019	Oct 2019	Some forms of risk assessment are missing key aspects.	old methods
A $200 Anomaly Threshold doc ver	31	11/1/2019	Jan 2020	Risk cost/benefit is a powerful risk mgmt tool.	200anom
What We Must Know In Order to Understand Your Risk Assessment pdf	32	3/1/2020	Apr 2020	PXX: Bias control is an essential element in risk assessment
Risk Reduction via Leak Detection	33	Apr-20	July 2020	leak detection capability analyses	LDS