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Risk Assessment of Deepwater Gas Pipelines |
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| This was a paper presented at the Deepwater Pipelines Technology Conference in New Orleans in 1999 | |
AbstractThe capital value of deepwater gas pipelines with dependent upstream and downstream facilities is such that these developments must carry a low level of risk during construction and high reliability in operation. This makes it necessary to understand and quantify risks and uncertainties in order to support the business case for these projects. In the deepwater areas beyond continental shelves, the primary areas of risk and uncertainty are perceived as pipeline buckling during construction and geo-hazards during operation, such as earthquake induced slope instability or seismic fault movement. These issues are discussed and illustrated by reference to integrity assessment studies performed during the detail design of a 500-km 24-inch gas pipeline in a seismic deepwater region. For this project, these "deepwater" risks were quantified and shown to be low when compared against generic values for shallow water pipelines. To download a copy of the paper in PDF format, please right click on the following link and select "Save Target As..." (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As..." (Netscape) To read PDF files, we recommend you use Adobe Acrobat Reader version 4, which can be downloaded free using the following link:
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