January 12, 2017 Yesterday and today, the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) has been conducting a public meeting of the Gas Pipeline Technical Advisory Committee to discuss the recently passed natural gas pipeline “mega” rule. Jones Day Publication published…
What are the considerations when combining regulated and non-regulated pipe in a pipeline control room? Or possibly more to the point, what about combining non-regulated facilities such as compressor stations into a regulated pipeline control room? If you have DOT…
When designing a high performance HMI, the goal is to enable the controller to see an abnormal operating condition prior to reaching an alarm limit. Sounds easy right? Well maybe not. Historically, HMIs have been mostly line drawings and numbers…
The Department of Transportation inspector general will assess the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's progress in addressing mandates from Congress and recommendations from other agencies over the last decade. The review, announced in a memo today and set to begin…
Now that we have been at PHMSA / CRM and Pipeline Alarm Management for a bit over 5 years, we think we are learning a few things. First, it would seem to me that most of the current alarm…
There are many challenges with successfully implementing an effective program of pipeline alarm management. Even after you get everyone on the same page with definition and alarm philosophy, you still need to consider where and how to manage alarm configuration.…
The word Alarm is used in the pipeline business to mean may things. Historically, anything that was annunciated by light, animation, sound or other means has been considered an alarm. Under the PHMSA Control Room Management rule, pipeline operators are…
Mobile technology has undoubtedly become an integral part in our day-to-day lives, whether it be in the form of a smartphone or tablet. For the pipeline SCADA world, the roles and risks of mobile technology have yet to be fully…
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