API Standards Development and Pipeline Safety Regulations

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API Standards Development and Pipeline Safety
Regulations

• Restoring Trust in Pipeline Safety Conference
• November 3, 2006
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Andrea M. Johnson
• Senior Standards Associate
• American Petroleum Institute

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API Standards Program

• API is an American National Standards Institute,
  or ANSI accredited Standards Developing
  Organization (SDO)
• Open, Transparent Consensus Process
• Balance, Due Process
• Approved and Published Procedures for Standards
  Development
• Regular Program Audits

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API Standards Development

• Formal process for ANSI designation
• Not all standards are ANSI designated
• But all standards and RPs comply with ANSI
  approved procedures
• Balloting, development, stakeholder reviews,
  record keeping, etc.

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API Standards Development

• Provide industry forum to develop consensus best
  practices
• Work collaboratively with other associations
• Provide opportunity for standards development to
  improve industry competitiveness
• Where appropriate, engage in legislative and
  regulatory advocacy through standards development

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API Standards Development

• Standards improve industry competitiveness by
  adding value
• Improved safety and reliability
• Reduced compliance costs
• Reduced procurement costs
• API has published a brochure entitled The Oil
  and Natural Gas Industrys Most Valuable
  Resource describing the value of standardization

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API Standards and Pipeline Safety Regulations

• Pursuant to OMB Circular A119, federal government
  agencies are encouraged to use voluntary
  consensus standards for regulatory purposes
• PHMSA incorporates more than 80 national
  voluntary consensus standards in its gas and
  hazardous liquid pipeline safety regulations
• Representatives of PHMSA participate as members
  or observers on dozens of these standards
  committees to ensure that public sector interests
  in safety and environmental protection are
  addressed in the standards-making process
• PHMSA has been included in stakeholder reviews of
  draft standards

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API Standards and Pipeline Safety Regulations

• The incorporation by reference of voluntary
  industry consensus standards in the pipeline
  safety regulations helps to ensure that
  regulations are kept technically up-to-date, and
  allows the pipeline industry to use the most
  updated technical solutions
• PHMSA calls on the consensus standards process
  whenever they feel that it can improve the
  likelihood of reliability or safety
• PHMSA considers the merits of each standard and
  sometimes incorporates only portions of standard

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API Standards and Pipeline Safety Regulations

• PHMSA uses the rulemaking process annually to
  determine whether additional or updated consensus
  standards can or should be incorporated by
  reference
• Recently PHMSA has adopted 12 new standards that
  address the safety of aboveground oil storage
  tanks, corrosion protection procedures, and
  computational pipeline monitoring systems

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API Standards and Pipeline Safety Regulations

• PHMSA and API Participate in the Pipeline
  Standards Developing Organization Coordination
  Council (PSDOCC)
• ANSI-accredited standards developersincluding
  the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  (ASME), the National Fire Protection Association
  (NFPA), National Association of Corrosion
  Engineers (NACE), etc.
• Government, Research Organizations, etc.
• Committed to supporting the development of
  standards that address the critical trends of
  improving safety, technological innovation,
  marketplace globalization, and regulatory reform

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Pipeline Standards Developing Organization
Coordination Council

• MOU between PSDOCC and PHMSA
• Enhances cooperation and coordination
• Ensures effective and efficient integration of
  pipeline safety research and development into
  development and revision of voluntary consensus
  technical standards
• Provides forum for coordination of development
  and maintenance of industry technical standards
• Annual Regulations Updates

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