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Profiling

Pipeline Risk Assessment—Risk Profiling   Traditional QRA relies heavily on historical incident rates. When applied to pipelines, this means that a pipeline—a population of pipe…

Conservatism

When risk estimates are expressed as single values–rather than as probability distributions–the level of conservatism used in producing those estimates must be declared. This is…

Due Diligence

Due Diligence—Risk Costs of Asset Ownership In this column, we occasionally highlight applications of risk assessment that are perhaps less apparent to some.  Since risk…

Words Matter

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…