Digitalization and software solutions
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Pipeline leak detection: Tackling the uncertainties
Pipeline safety and leak detection All of us involved in the pipeline industry seek to eliminate leaks, be they catastrophic or relatively minor. We at DNV GL have been at the forefront of these efforts and continue to invest heavily in advancing t ...
Increasing safety and pipeline performance through application systems redundancy
Redundancy in leak detection systems increases pipeline safety and performance Ensuring the availability of operationally critical systems is fundamental to oil and gas pipeline performance and safety. For this blog post I am delighted to introduc ...
Going to the Cloud - The Benefits of Being There
A cornerstone of DNV GL’s Pipeline Software Ecosystem initiative is its new software applications for the cloud. There are very appealing high level benefits for moving to the cloud. As a decision maker or software end-user in a company considering going to the cloud, you probably ask yourself, “What’s in it for me and my company?” ...
Smart or genius: How do you rate pipeline risk and integrity management?
Has the pipeline industry learnt from incidents in other industry sectors? How effectively have we incorporated these into our pipeline integrity and risk management processes and software tools? ...
An ecosystem of pipeline solutions
How comfortable are you with your decision support metrics? Let me ask a question to all pipeline operators and gas utilities. How would you grade your quantitative assessments, KPIs or metrics that you base strategic and operational decisions upon ...
Consequence and Risk Analysis of releases of hazardous materials from buried pipelines made easy
Releases of hazardous materials from buried pipelines can have disastrous consequences. A rupture and ignition of flammable gas from a buried pipeline in British Columbia, Canada initiated a forest fire which resulted in 1.6 hectares of land being bu ...
Big data and machine learning for prediction of corrosion in pipelines
In this blog post we will look at some of the achievements during a 5-day machine learning hackathon we arranged recently. We were curious about one of the key concepts in our current strategy - could we manage to become a bit more "data smart" on in ...
Pipeline History: Operation PLUTO
Here's a little pipeline history lesson for you! June 6 marks 'D-Day', that momentous military crossing of the English Channel into Normandy, France during World War II in 1944. But ships and troops were not all that crossed the channel. A little ...
Webinars: learn how the Pipeline Ecosystem can benefit your operations
It's been a pretty exciting time around here... For those of us who develop software for all things 'Pipeline', we are making some bold moves to bring our forces together. For many years we have offered a wide variety of solutions for the managemen ...
A primer: using GIS to build hydraulic pipeline models
Often the most challenging part of hydraulic modeling is not the mathematics or the analysis of the results, it's the initial preparation of the data. Frequently a GIS system is the 'system of record' for the starting point of a hydraulic model. An ...