Integrity Management Upate

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Operator QualificationPublic Meeting December
2005
AGA Operator Qualification Survey Results
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Operator QualificationPublic Meeting December
2005

• Program Costs
• Infrastructure
• Performance Metrics
• Regulatory Issues

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Survey Results

• First Operator Qualification Survey
• Objective Show program scope and performance
• AGA data is from investor owned gas distribution
  and combination utilities
• 34 companies reported
• 44.6 million services (74 nation)
• 64,262 employees (76.5 of nation)

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Survey Results
Gas Utility Employees (thousands) Total 129 In
vestor Owned 114 Distribution
51 Transmission 25 Integrated
5 Combination 33 Municipals
15 Services 60 Million
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Annual OQ Program Costs

• OQ program management cost 19 million
• 764K ave.
• OQ managers, trainers
• evaluators 6.8 FTE ave.
• Training costs 91 million
• 4 million ave.

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OQ Infrastructure

• Purchased or licensed OQ software 47
• Computer based training 44
• Adopted all or part of a commercial
• OQ program 47
• Adopted all or part of a commonly
• used covered task list 56

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OQ Infrastructure

• Covered Task Lists Used all or in Part
• Midwest Energy Association
• Northeast Gas Association
• New England Gas Association
• Pennsylvania Gas association
• Kentucky Gas Association
• Safety and Compliance
• ASME B31Q

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Performance Metrics

• Employees OQ qualified 24,415
• Average task evaluation per employee 29.4
• Total qualification records, annual 435,074
• Average company 16,734
• Annual employee OQ training 28.4 hrs.
• Percent OQ test failures requiring
• re-evaluation 2.1

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Performance Metrics

• Distribution Incidents Involving Operation Action
• DOT Database
• Total Operator Action
• 2002 113 7 (6.2)
• 2003 151 6 (4.0)
• 2004 133 6 (4.5)
• Sept 2005 114 1 (0.9)

Distribution incident is 5,000 damage, injury,
or release of gas with fire or explosion
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Regulatory Issues

• New Construction
• 23 of 24 survey companies include new
  construction
• Requalification Intervals
• One year 13
• Three years 47
• Five years 40
• More than five years 0