This course provides an introduction to pipeline integrity management, going through the overall risk philosophy and methodology applied.

Course description
This course provides an introduction to pipeline integrity management founded on the recently publised recommended practice DNV RP-F116 "Integrity Management of Submarine Pipeline Systems". The course details the combined processes of threat identification, risk assessment, planning, monitoring, inspection, maintenance etc. necessary to maintain pipeline integrity. The participants will familiarise themselves with the concept of risk assessment and the main damage causes and failure mechanisms for pipelines. A copy of the agenda for this course can be downloaded herusing the link on the right.

Learning objective

• Know how to perform an integrity assessment with respect to pipelines
• Be familiar with pipeline inspection methods
• Be aware of the pipeline integrity management working process and requirements of software tools.

Pre-requisite
Participants are encouraged to attend the Pipeline overview course prior to this course.

Target group
Management and engineers evaluating pipelines in operation, and pipeline engineers working with pipeline condition assessment and inspection planning.