Interstate Natural Gas Association of America INGAA Action Plan to Build Confidence in Pipeline Safety

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Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
INGAA Action Plan to Build Confidence in
Pipeline Safety

• INGAA Integrity Management Continuous Improvement
• November, 2011

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INGAA Guiding Principles of Pipeline Safety

• Our goal is zero incidents - a perfect record of
  safety and reliability for the national pipeline
  system. We will work every day toward this goal.
• We are committed to safety culture as a critical
  dimension to continuously improve our industrys
  performance.
• We will be relentless in our pursuit of improving
  by learning from the past and anticipating the
  future.
• We are committed to applying integrity management
  principles on a system-wide basis.
• We will engage our stakeholders - from the local
  community to the national level - so they
  understand and can participate in reducing risk.

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INGAA Members 9 Step Action Plan

• Apply Risk Management beyond High Consequence
  Areas (HCAs)
• Raise the Standards for Corrosion Anomaly
  Management
• Demonstrate Fitness for Service on Pre-Regulation
  Pipelines
• Shorten Pipeline Isolation and Response Time to 1
  Hour in Populated Areas
• Improve Integrity Management Communication and
  Data
• Implement the Pipelines and Informed Planning
  Alliance (PIPA) Guidance
• Evaluate, Refine and Improve Threat Assessment
  and Mitigation
• Implement Management Systems Across INGAA Members
• Provide Forums for Stakeholder Engagement and
  Emergency Officials

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Extend Risk Management

• INGAA member commitments
• Apply integrity management principles to the
  entire transmission system operated by INGAA
  members
• Currently required only for the 6 of natural gas
  transmission pipeline located within HCAs
• Expansion will be focused on population near the
  pipeline and continuing development of technology
• Will expand and consistently apply the program
  to
• 90 of the population nearby pipelines using
  integrity management principles by 2012
• 90 of the population nearby pipelines using ASME
  B31.8S by 2020,
• 100 of the population nearby pipelines using
  integrity management principles by 2030
• The remaining 20 of mileage with no population
  using integrity management principles beyond 2030

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Verify Integrity of Older Pipelines

• INGAA member commitments
• Systematically validate records and maximum
  allowable operating pressure for pipelines in
  HCAs that pre-date federal regulation
• If records are inadequate, apply fitness for
  service and remediate as necessary
• Incorporate NTSB recommendations issued following
  the San Bruno pipeline accident
• Draw upon experience with HCAs in conjunction
  with developing technology to address Class 3 and
  4, and beyond

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Mitigate Consequences of Incidents

• INGAA member commitments
• Develop isolation and response plans using both
  valves and deployment of personnel to meet 1-hour
  standard in populated areas.
• Improve communications with emergency responders
  during incidents to expedite situational
  awareness
• Enhance response planning with emergency
  officials where potential secondary fire
  consequences could be most severe

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What is Needed?

• Holistic Approach to Pipeline Safety
• Working together INGAA, PHMSA, NTSB, and key
  stakeholders
• Reauthorize Pipeline Safety Act
• Stronger state and federal excavation prevention
  measures
• Industry
• RD
• Share lessons learned
• Infuse best practices
• Invest in next generation of workers and safety
  tools
• Make safety culture an integral part of the
  pipeline industry day in and day out

Effective pipeline safety is a shared
responsibility - and requires active engagement
between operators, the government and the public
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Demonstrable Actions

• Filed Policy Positions describing the plan, with
  desire to get stakeholders engaged and weighing
  in on plan http//www.regulations.gov/!searchResu
  ltsrpp10po0sPHMSA-2011-0023
• Conducted workshop with National Association of
  State Fire Marshalls and defined Incident
  Mitigation Management (IMM) to improve
  mitigation performance and minimize overall
  incident impact
• Defined Fitness For Service and developed a white
  paper providing technical foundation
• Studying other industries such as aviation,
  nuclear, chemical, medical, where the consequence
  of failure can be catastrophic and developed
  safety culture white paper to help guide our
  efforts
• Developing a Research and Development Road Map
• Conducted workshops to define best practices for
  records management, pipe procurement,
  construction and management of pre-regulation pipe

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Summary

• Nothing less than relentless pursuit of
  improvement gets us to the goal of zero
• Application of risk management is central to our
  strategy
• Our success depends upon active engagement of all
  stakeholders
• We are taking the next steps
• We are cognizant of public opinion
• We will work cooperatively with all stakeholders
• We want to focus on real improvements to safety

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Appendix
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Manage Corrosion Anomalies

• INGAA member commitments
• Apply the standard for corrosion anomaly
  management outside HCAs to the same as used
  inside HCA

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Collect Use Pipeline Data

• INGAA member commitments
• Improve data collection and analysis, convert
  this data into meaningful industry information
  and communicate it to stakeholders

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Implement Best Practices

• INGAA member commitments
• Build an active coalition of INGAA member
  representatives to implement PIPA recommended
  practices
• Members also commit to collaborating with PIPA
  stakeholders to increase awareness and adoption
  of PIPA recommended best practices

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Advance Understanding of Threats

• INGAA member commitments
• Initiate research to review interaction of
  multiple threats at one site
• Review adequacy of consensus standards for
  threats and mitigation
• Seek best practice for data integration to
  support integrity mitigation decisions

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Foster a Culture ofContinuous Improvement
Raise the Standard for Use of Management Systems
across INGAA Members

• INGAA member commitments
• Better inform INGAA members to enable decision
  making and control of risk
• Provide guidance to members on types of
  practices, attributes, and their indicators to be
  used to improve safety and operational culture

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Engage Public Officials

• INGAA member commitments
• Support and sponsor emergency preparedness
  workshops highlighting lessons learned and
  current issues

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IMCI Action Teams
1. Stakeholder Outreach Two-way communication with meaningful performance measures. Actively promote PIPA (Pipeline and Informed Planning Alliance)
2. Risk Management Apply risk management concepts beyond High Consequence Areas (HCAs) with comprehensive threat analysis
3. Integrity Management Tools Enhance corrosion control methods and anomaly management protocols
4. Pipelines Built Prior to PHMSA Regulations Develop inventory and protocols to manage integrity
5. Technology Development Deployment Improve crack-detection tools management Work with PHMSA to produce a RD road map, and Define assessment alternatives for non-piggable lines
6. Management Systems Apply safety culture principles to drive learning across the industry
7. Emergency Preparedness Response Update isolation valves automation and enhance public awareness
8. New Construction Fully implement the 2010/2011 INGAA Foundation Pipe and Construction Action Plans
9. Storage Clarify regulatory oversight for storage facilities