11 Prevention, Mitigation, and Monitoring Measures for Pipelines

In this chapter, we examine how to prevent, mitigate and monitor threats that can cause unplanned events on pipelines. The names of the integrity threats have been selected from the ASME B31.8S-2014 industry-recognized standard. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) publishes Managing System Integrity of Gas Pipeline. This is document is commonly referred to as ASME B31.8S. ASME B31.S paragraph 2.2 defines nine (9) threats to gas pipelines. These nine threats are divided into three main categories: (1) Time Dependent, (2) Stable, and (3) Time Independent. Some of the nine threats have subcategories of things to consider in a robust integrity management program. While ASME B31.8S focuses on gas pipelines, the discussion of threats is applicable to liquid pipelines as well.