Asset Integrity for Pipelines
Elevate Your Asset Integrity Program
Pipelines traverse nature preserves, parks, water supplies, businesses, and our communities. That's why it's paramount to apply the latest technology to managing pipeline integrity which allows for proactive measures to ensure pipeline safety, reliability, and compliance.
Irth Asset Integrity for Pipelines, a fully integrated enterprise-level solution built on the highly secure Microsoft Cloud, gives owners a systematic approach to managing the integrity of their pipeline assets effectively. It leverages advanced data science and machine learning to enable pipeline operators to make efficient data-driven decisions to prevent pipeline failures and protect the safety of people and the environment.

Assessment Planning
Plan all your integrity assessments, from inline inspections to close interval surveys and more, in one place. The platform connects these assessment reports with any previous inspections and pipeline data through GIS mapping using one interface. Machine learning technology automatically reviews and standardizes inspection reports from any vendor, regardless of format.

Assessment Analysis
Our platform helps you determine how safe your pipeline is by calculating failure pressures and tracking how quickly corrosion and cracks are growing. It looks at previous assessments and pipeline data to identify interacting threats. When analyzing your ILI and CIS data, we use over 400 conditions — designed by regulations, pipeline operators, and subject matter experts — to find potential problems and where you need to take action.

Dig Management & Threat Monitoring
After analysis, the system creates comprehensive dig plans that include auto-generated dig lists, dig sheets, and repair templates. When repairs are completed, you can upload condition data and repair details. This lets you validate your inspection performance according to API 1163 ILI standards.
Add-Ons
External Corrosion
Turn your external corrosion control data into valuable and actionable insights. Capabilities include:
External corrosion control surveys, i.e., Close Interval Surveys (CIS), are automatically aligned and integrated with ILI and pipeline data, allowing for a more comprehensive and advanced analysis.
Analyze corrosion control survey data with pre-built conditions designed by our corrosion SMEs and data science team.
Assign each deficient reading or region a mitigative action with auto-populated due dates customizable to the condition category.
SME-designed auto-generated dashboards/reports are immediately available for review and download.

Internal Corrosion
The standalone Internal Corrosion module is designed to integrate, analyze, and track internal corrosion monitoring and mitigative activities. Capabilities include:
Integrate all internal corrosion control activities, (i.e., coupon measurements, maintenance pigging, and operational data), with inline inspection data.
Utilize proven data science models to analyze inline inspection results to identify active internal corrosion.
Monitor and track corrosion management through a single centralized platform. The solution can track meeting notes, analysis findings, and action items.
Enterprise-level customizable dashboards and reports are provided, giving operators visibility into their corrosion program.
Reduce chemical inhibitor cost by 5-10% through metrics surfaced from this module.

Crack PCFA
The Pressure Cycle Fatigue Analysis module allows users to perform a fatigue analysis on crack or crack-like flaws identified from inline inspection data. Capabilities include:
Determine the severity of pressure cycle fatigue at each flaw location by analyzing the pressure history and calculating a cyclic index.
Estimate the fatigue growth rate, critical crack size, and remaining life for each ILI-identified crack or crack-like anomaly utilizing MAT-8.
Calculate a failure pressure for all crack and crack-like flaws utilizing technically proven fracture mechanics models, including Raju-Newman, modified Log-Secant, and MAT-8.

Risk Management Add-On
The Risk Management module provides a centralized platform for integrating a holistic data set characterizing the asset, environment, maintenance activity, and operating conditions. Said data is utilized to drive a scalable quantitative and probabilistic risk model that allows for real-time risk analysis results for use in day-to-day integrity decisions.

Professional Services
Our GIS analysts and pipeline integrity engineers will support your integrity management program with a combination of expertise and software. Capabilities include:
Risk Assessment: Applicable to gas or liquid pipelines, facilities, or tanks, our professional services team can conduct a risk assessment on all facilities.
Hazardous Liquid High Consequence Area Analysis: Determines a spill’s ability to affect an HCA via direct, indirect, overland spread, direct watershed, indirect watershed, pool fire, and HVL dispersion.
Gas Consequence Area Analyses (HCA, MCA, and Class Location): Assess the consequence of a gas pipeline’s failure via Method 1 or Method 2.
Valve Studies: Perform valve placement studies for both gas (RMV) and liquid pipelines (EFRD).
Integrity Assessment Support: Plan and analyze integrity assessments, i.e., ILI and CIS, utilizing Irth’s platform and our professional services team. Identify anomalies or regions for repair or for validating inline inspection performance.
Crack Failure Pressure and Pressure Cycle Fatigue Analysis (PCFA): Assess cyclic fatigue utilizing pressure test or ILI data and determine the remaining life of any crack and crack-like flaws identified by an ILI crack tool.
Data Prediction Using Machine Learning: Backfill integrity data (install year, coating type, wall thickness, etc.) with machine learning for use in a risk assessment.
Compliance Services: Regulatory plan creation, review or gap analysis, and updating.
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