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Pipeline Integrity Guidance Tool

A structured reference for evaluating pipeline defects and integrity conditions.

This tool provides structured guidance for evaluating pipeline defects and integrity conditions. It is designed to support engineering thinking, data collection, and early-stage assessment.

It does not replace professional engineering judgment, operator procedures, or regulatory requirements.

Beta notice: This tool is an active development (beta) version. Content, structure, and guidance may change over time and may contain errors or incomplete information. Users should not rely on this tool as a final or authoritative source and should apply professional engineering judgment and applicable procedures.

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External Corrosion Corrosion-driven threats organized around metal-loss behavior, morphology, interaction, and corrosion control context. 6 topics Internal Corrosion Corrosion-driven threats tied to internal service conditions, flow behavior, water hold-up, deposits, and internal metal-loss mechanisms. 1 topics Stress Corrosion Cracking Crack and SCC-driven threats where susceptibility, validation, and failure behavior require crack-specific review. 2 topics Manufacturing-Related Defects Threats tied to seam type, vintage, manufacturing susceptibility, and pipe-making attributes. 5 topics Welding / Fabrication-Related Defects Threats where girth welds, fabrication details, and weld interaction change significance and response. 5 topics Third-Party / Mechanical Damage Threats driven by deformation, impact, gouging, and mechanically damaged pipe rather than corrosion alone. 5 topics Weather-Related and Outside Force Threats driven by land movement, strain, crossings, support change, and outside-force loading. 8 topics Equipment / Appurtenance / Connection Issues Threats tied to fittings, valves, threaded connections, appurtenances, and local connection integrity rather than pipe-body defects alone. 2 topics Threat Identification / Data Quality Support Support workflows used to identify the right threat path and decide whether ILI data are trustworthy enough to use. 3 topics

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Common starting points during integrity review

Crack-Like Feature Crack-Like Features Data Quality / ILI Review Data Quality / ILI Review Dent Dents Dent at Weld Dents Dent with Metal Loss Interaction Issues External Damage: Bullet Strikes and Equipment Impacts Interaction Issues

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5 topics filtered by tag "geometry"

Dents

Dent

Dent guidance starts with geometric deformation but quickly moves into context: where the dent sits, whether it interacts with other threats, and whether shape alone understates the concern.

dent geometry interaction screening

Dents

Dent at Weld

Dent at weld review focuses on dents located on or near girth or seam welds, where local stiffness changes and weld-related stress effects can drive a different response than a plain dent.

dent weld-related geometry interaction

Geotechnical / Strain

Ovality / Out-of-Roundness

Ovality or out-of-roundness review is the workflow for pipe cross-section distortion that may reflect construction, bending, settlement, external loading, or local geometry change rather than a discrete dent alone.

strain geotechnical ovality geometry

Geotechnical / Strain

Pipe Buckling / Local Buckle

Pipe buckling or local buckle review is used when the pipe shows compressive deformation, instability, or a geometry response that may reflect bending, axial compression, loss of support, or sustained outside-force loading rather than a simple dent or wrinkle alone.

strain geotechnical buckling geometry

Geotechnical / Strain

Wrinkle Bend

Wrinkle bends are local geometric irregularities associated with bending or construction history. In integrity review they often matter less as a label and more as a clue to loading, strain concentration, or potential crack susceptibility.

strain geotechnical geometry bending