Pipeline Integrity Data Management
Maximise the Value From Your Data
Our Uptime offering is augmented by over four decades of hands-on pipeline operations. No other North American integrity management services company offers the depth of understanding of pipeline operations as GL.
Integrity management
A key strength of GL's Uptime solution is the range and sophistication of the decision support tools used to perform integrity management analysis. By using a quantitative approach to risk assessment, you will be able to expand upon traditional qualitative analyses to estimate the probability of failure and potential consequences associated with 'best in class' pipeline integrity management tools.
GL's tools have been developed following extensive research and development programs. This allows for an increased level of confidence in the evaluation of credible threats to a pipeline system that must be identified and presented to regulatory authorities. Uptime provides an objective, unbiased engineering-centered approach to analysis and mitigation of the inherent risks associated with pipeline operations.
Uptime can help you maintain compliance, reduce failures and minimize costs, maximizing your return on investment and reducing your exposure to risk. Uptime allows you to target expenditures to the most critical parts of your system and will assist you in selecting the most appropriate and cost effective program to manage your integrity.
What is Uptime?
Uptime combines GL's powerful decision support tools with a data management system to address pipeline risk and integrity management. Uptime helps improve your knowledge of the condition of your pipeline and to target your integrity expenditures for maximum benefit.
So what does it incorporate?
- An ESRI ® GIS-based data management solution
- State-of-the-art quantitative risk analysis tools
- A visualization tool to aid decision making based on analysis information
- Experienced pipeline integrity and operations professionals
In practical terms what can GL do for me?
GL provides pipeline integrity services including data management, planning, integrity analysis and risk assessment, consequence of failure analysis, corrosion management and inspection and maintenance strategies. GL offers pipeline optimization services including plan outlining and development, database planning and development, threat assessment and data analysis.
Uptime Modules
- Data Manager - Manages all pipeline integrity data, including centerline, facilities, inspections, repair history and right-of-way data and includes functionality for pipeline navigation, data alignment, alignment sheet generation, data loading, dynamic segmentation and report generation.
- Survey Manager - Collates and presents data for field excavation preparation and offers an in-line inspection ( ILI ) data analysis tool for wall loss, crack detection and geometry surveys
- Risk Manager - Provides a step-through approach to potential gas pipeline threat assessment and reporting along with reliability-based risk analysis tools for all nine threat categories affecting a gas pipeline
