See also Missteps, Myths, and Past Practice “Attempts to assess risk without estimating frequencies and intensities is like designing a bridge without considering loads/forces. You’re…
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See also Missteps, Myths, and Past Practice “Attempts to assess risk without estimating frequencies and intensities is like designing a bridge without considering loads/forces. You’re…
Optimizing use of inspection results. A limitation that continues to plague older risk assessment methodologies is the inability to fully include the results of inspections. …
Published Article Damage vs Failure—A Risk Assessment Needs to Know the Difference Let’s take a deeper look into an aspect of the mechanics of good…
How can stakeholders be assured that risk is well understood? let’s never lose sight of the fact that an owner/operator of a pipeline has introduced,…
The Outlook for Pipeline Risk Assessment (original 2014, updated 2020) An Interview with W. Kent Muhlbauer PHMSA has recently expressed criticism regarding how Integrity Management…
Troubles with Weightings There is currently great disparity in approaches and level of rigor applied to risk assessment by pipeline operators. This is largely due…
Measuring Failure Potential—What is Attacking? How Effective are Defenses? Can it Survive? This triad is a critical aspect of full and efficient PoF (FoF) modeling.…
PL Risk Management—The Essential Elements of Risk Assessment As the desire for more robust pipeline risk management grows, so too does the need for superior…
A rather common issue these days is decision making involving comparisons between In Line Inspection (ILI) vs Direct Assessment (DA, and, in particular, External Corrosion…
Words matter By W Kent Muhlbauer, WKM Consultancy, Houston, TX, USA Risk concepts sometimes harbour challenges in understanding and communications. This means that we must…