Case Study

Accelerating Pipeline Crossing Reviews

How Enbridge cut crossing review times from hours to minutes using Irth's AIP platform.

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12x Faster Reviews

Trivial crossings reduced from ~1 hour to ~ 5 minutes.

$100,000+

in annual cost savings.

Eliminated 2-week turnaround

for rupture pressures and growth projections.

Consistent, defensible analysis

Automated calculations use the same data sources and methodology every time.

Rapid adoption

75+ users onboarded immediately; 257 additional users from Operations and Lands & Right-of-Way teams requested & granted access to AIP.

Regulatory recognition

Report shared with the local regulator and was very well received.

One of North America's largest gas pipeline operators, managing extensive infrastructure across the U.S. and Canada.

Dedicated Crossings Team conducting hundreds of integrity reviews annually.

All required inspection and assessment data is already stored in AIP, but wasn't accessible in a format aligned with the team's review workflow.

Challenge

Before Enbridge worked with Irth to develop the Crossings Report:

Manual data assembly: Engineers pulled pipeline listings, located kiloposts in mapping software, and rebuilt anomaly summaries in spreadsheets for every crossing review
Two-week turnaround: Rupture pressures and growth projections required separate requests to Integrity Engineering
Hours lost per review: Each review took one to four hours; complex crossings could take multiple days
No search or flexibility: No location search, no unit toggle, no ability to evaluate multiple crossing ranges at once
Inconsistent analysis: Spreadsheet-based workflows created variability across reviews

Solution

Enbridge partnered with Irth to build a dedicated Crossings Review Report within the AIP platform — automating the retrieval, calculation, and presentation of all integrity data needed for crossing evaluations.

Key capabilities included:

Automated data compilation: 12+ critical integrity data points across corrosion, dents, and cracks

Anomaly-level drill-down: Feature type, dimensions, and remaining wall thickness

Flexible unit and location search: Imperial/Metric toggle and milepost/kilopost lookup

Multi-range analysis: Evaluate multiple crossing segments simultaneously

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