1 - AS 2885.3-2001 PIPELINES-GAS AND LIQUID PETROLEUM - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
4 - PREFACE
5 - CONTENTS
7 - SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL
7 - 1.1 SCOPE
7 - 1.2 BASIS OF STANDARD
7 - 1.3 APPLICATION
8 - 1.4 RISK MANAGEMENT
8 - 1.5 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
8 - 1.6 DEFINITIONS
8 - 1.6.1 Approved and approval
8 - 1.6.2 Casing
8 - 1.6.3 Collapse
8 - 1.6.4 Component
8 - 1.6.5 Construction
8 - 1.6.6 Defect
8 - 1.6.7 Dent
8 - 1.6.8 Diameter
8 - 1.6.9 Fitting
8 - 1.6.10 Fluid
8 - 1.6.11 Gas
9 - 1.6.12 High vapour pressure liquid (HVPL)
9 - 1.6.13 Hoop stress
9 - 1.6.14 Hot tap
9 - 1.6.15 Inert gas
9 - 1.6.16 Inspector
9 - 1.6.17 Leak test
9 - 1.6.18 Location class
9 - 1.6.19 Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP)
9 - 1.6.20 May
9 - 1.6.21 Operating authority
9 - 1.6.22 Petroleum
9 - 1.6.23 Pig
9 - 1.6.24 Pig trap (scraper trap)
9 - 1.6.25 Piping
9 - 1.6.26 Pre-tested
10 - 1.6.27 Protection measures
10 - 1.6.28 Regulatory authority
10 - 1.6.29 Risk assessment
10 - 1.6.30 Shall
10 - 1.6.31 Should
10 - 1.6.32 Specified minimum yield stress (SMYS)
10 - 1.6.33 Station pipe work
10 - 1.6.34 Strength test
10 - 1.6.35 Telescoped pipeline
10 - 1.6.36 Wall thickness, nominal
11 - SECTION 2 PREPARATION FOR OPERATION
11 - 2.1 GENERAL
11 - 2.2 PLANS AND PROCEDURES
11 - 2.3 RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PERSONNEL
11 - 2.4 READINESS FOR OPERATION
12 - 2.5 DELAYED COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATION
12 - 2.6 PURGING AND FILLING A PIPELINE-PROCEDURES
12 - 2.6.1 General
13 - 2.6.2 Filling a gas pipeline
13 - 2.6.3 Filling a liquid petroleum pipeline
14 - 2.6.4 Filling a high vapour pressure liquid (HVPL) pipeline
15 - SECTION 3 PIPELINE INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT
15 - 3.1 BASIS OF SECTION
15 - 3.2 GENERAL
15 - 3.3 PIPELINE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
16 - 3.4 THREAT MITIGATION
16 - 3.4.1 General
17 - 3.5 SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
17 - 3.5.1 General
18 - SECTION 4 PLANS AND PROCEDURES
18 - 4.1 GENERAL
18 - 4.2 SAFETY AND OPERATING PLAN
18 - 4.2.1 General
18 - 4.2.2 Safety and operating plan requirements
19 - 4.2.3 Audit of compliance to safety and operating plan
19 - 4.3 EMERGENCY PLANS
21 - 4.4 PROCEDURES
22 - SECTION 5 PIPELINE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
22 - 5.1 GENERAL
22 - 5.2 OPERATING AND DESIGN CONDITIONS
22 - 5.3 PIPELINE INSPECTION AND ASSESSMENT
22 - 5.3.1 General
22 - 5.3.2 Frequency of inspection assessment
23 - 5.3.3 Leakage survey and detection
23 - 5.3.4 Assessment of results and appropriate action
23 - 5.3.5 Internal surfaces
23 - 5.3.6 External surfaces
23 - 5.4 PIPE WALL DEFECT ASSESSMENT
23 - 5.4.1 Damaged pipework
24 - 5.4.2 Corroded pipework
24 - 5.4.3 Assessment of corroded pipework
26 - 5.5 COATINGS
26 - 5.5.1 Above-ground pipework
26 - 5.5.2 Below-ground pipework
27 - 5.5.3 Coating repairs
27 - 5.6 CATHODIC PROTECTION
27 - 5.6.1 Criteria
27 - 5.6.2 Personnel
27 - 5.6.3 Commissioning of cathodic protection systems
27 - 5.6.4 Operation, maintenance and monitoring of cathodic protection systems
27 - 5.6.5 Measuring equipment
27 - 5.6.6 Interference
27 - 5.6.7 Records
28 - 5.7 INTERNAL SURFACES
28 - 5.7.1 Mitigation audits
28 - 5.7.2 Personnel
28 - 5.8 STATIONS
28 - 5.8.1 General
28 - 5.8.2 Pressure control and protective equipment inspection
29 - 5.8.3 Site security
29 - 5.8.4 Structure
29 - 5.8.5 Structures housing equipment
29 - 5.9 ANCILLIARY EQUIPMENT
29 - 5.9.1 General
29 - 5.9.2 Valves
29 - 5.9.3 Pipe supports
30 - 5.9.4 Ground entry locations
30 - 5.9.5 Pig trap inspection and maintenance
30 - 5.9.6 Underwater pipelines
30 - 5.9.7 Tunnels, shafts and valve pits
30 - 5.9.8 Casings (sleeve) maintenance
31 - SECTION 6 THREAT MITIGATION
31 - 6.1 GENERAL
31 - 6.2 PIPELINE SURVEILLANCE
31 - 6.2.1 General
31 - 6.2.2 Patrol of route
32 - 6.3 PIPELINE MARKING
33 - 6.4 EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE PREVENTION
33 - 6.4.1 General
34 - 6.4.2 Access to the pipeline
34 - 6.4.3 Prohibition of buildings near the pipeline
34 - 6.4.4 Vegetation on and near the pipeline
34 - 6.5 CONTROLLING ACTIVITIES NEAR PIPELINES
34 - 6.5.1 General
35 - 6.5.2 Addition of fill on or near the pipeline
35 - 6.5.3 Power and telegraph poles, fencing, seismic and land disturbance activities
35 - 6.5.4 Explosives
36 - 6.5.5 One-call-services
36 - 6.5.6 Operating Authority activities
37 - SECTION 7 SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
37 - 7.1 GENERAL
37 - 7.2 EMERGENCY RESPONSE
37 - 7.3 VENTING PROCEDURES
37 - 7.3.1 Precautions to prevent an explosion
38 - 7.3.2 Venting gas
38 - 7.4 PROCEDURES TO FREE PIPELINES OF HYDROCARBONS
38 - 7.4.1 General
38 - 7.4.2 Gas
38 - 7.4.3 Hydrocarbon liquid
39 - 7.4.4 Purging an HVPL
39 - 7.4.5 Trapped hydrocarbon
39 - 7.5 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
39 - 7.6 SCADA
40 - 7.7 PIPELINE FACILITY CONTROL
40 - 7.8 NOISE ABATEMENT
40 - 7.9 ENVIRONMENT
40 - 7.10 ELECTRICAL SAFETY ON METALLIC PIPELINES
41 - SECTION 8 OPERATING CONDITION CHANGES
41 - 8.1 DESIGN CONDITION CHANGES
42 - 8.2 PRESSURE TESTING OF DESIGN CONDITION CHANGES
42 - 8.3 PIPELINE MODIFICATIONS
42 - 8.4 REVIEW OF PRESSURE- CONTROL AND OVER- PRESSURE PROTECTION SYSTEMS
42 - 8.5 REVIEW OF DESIGN LIFE
43 - 8.6 REVIEW OF MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE OPERATING PRESSURE (MAOP)
43 - 8.7 REVIEW OF LOCATION CLASSES
43 - 8.8 REVIEW OF RISK ASSESSMENT
43 - 8.9 OPERATION OF A SUSPENDED PIPELINE
44 - 8.10 ABANDONING A PIPELINE
44 - 8.10.1 General
44 - 8.10.2 Abandonment in place
44 - 8.10.3 Abandonment by removal
44 - 8.11 ABANDONMENT OF ABOVE-GROUND PIPELINES
44 - 8.12 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ABANDONMENT
45 - 8.13 ABANDONMENT RECORDS
47 - SECTION 9 PIPE LINE REPAIRS
47 - 9.1 GENERAL
47 - 9.2 SUPERVISION
47 - 9.3 COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL
47 - 9.4 WORKING ON PIPELINES
47 - 9.4.1 General
47 - 9.4.2 Tunnels, shafts, and casing
47 - 9.4.3 Construction safety
48 - 9.4.4 Precautions to prevent an explosion
49 - 9.4.5 Pipelines filled with hydrocarbon gas
49 - 9.4.6 Pipelines filled with liquid petroleum or HVPL
49 - 9.4.7 Purged pipelines
50 - 9.5 REPAIR STRATEGY
50 - 9.5.1 Initial response
50 - 9.5.2 Repair strategy flow chart
50 - 9.5.3 Temporary repairs
50 - 9.5.4 Permanent repairs
51 - 9.6 WELDING ONTO AN IN-SERVICE PIPELINE
51 - 9.6.1 General
51 - 9.6.2 Monitoring of operating conditions
51 - 9.6.3 Resumption of normal operation
53 - 9.7 HOT-TAPPING OPERATIONS
54 - SECTION 10 RECORDS
54 - 10.1 GENERAL
54 - 10.2 DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMISSIONING RECORDS
55 - 10.3 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE RECORDS
55 - 10.4 ABANDOMENT RECORDS
56 - APPENDIX A - LIST OF REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
56 - A1 IDENTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS
56 - A2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
58 - APPENDIX B - DOCUMENT HIERARCHY
59 - APPENDIX C - LIST OF APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS
59 - C1 CONCEPT OF APPROVAL
59 - C2 PRINCIPLES
59 - C3 LIST OF APPROVED ITEMS
61 - APPENDIX D - ASSESSMENT OF A CORRODED PIPELINE
61 - D1 SCOPE
61 - D2 ASSESSMENT BY PRESSURE TESTING
61 - D3 ASSESSMENT BY CALCULATION
61 - D3.1 General
62 - D3.2 Hoop stress analysis
72 - APPENDIX E - TYPICAL PIPELINE MARKERS