AS 2885.3-2001

1 - AS 2885.3-2001 PIPELINES-GAS AND LIQUID PETROLEUM - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
4 - PREFACE
5 - CONTENTS
7 - SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL
7 - 1.1 SCOPE
7 - 1.2 BASIS OF STANDARD
7 - 1.3 APPLICATION
8 - 1.4 RISK MANAGEMENT
8 - 1.5 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
8 - 1.6 DEFINITIONS
8 - 1.6.1 Approved and approval
8 - 1.6.2 Casing
8 - 1.6.3 Collapse
8 - 1.6.4 Component
8 - 1.6.5 Construction
8 - 1.6.6 Defect
8 - 1.6.7 Dent
8 - 1.6.8 Diameter
8 - 1.6.9 Fitting
8 - 1.6.10 Fluid
8 - 1.6.11 Gas
9 - 1.6.12 High vapour pressure liquid (HVPL)
9 - 1.6.13 Hoop stress
9 - 1.6.14 Hot tap
9 - 1.6.15 Inert gas
9 - 1.6.16 Inspector
9 - 1.6.17 Leak test
9 - 1.6.18 Location class
9 - 1.6.19 Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP)
9 - 1.6.20 May
9 - 1.6.21 Operating authority
9 - 1.6.22 Petroleum
9 - 1.6.23 Pig
9 - 1.6.24 Pig trap (scraper trap)
9 - 1.6.25 Piping
9 - 1.6.26 Pre-tested
10 - 1.6.27 Protection measures
10 - 1.6.28 Regulatory authority
10 - 1.6.29 Risk assessment
10 - 1.6.30 Shall
10 - 1.6.31 Should
10 - 1.6.32 Specified minimum yield stress (SMYS)
10 - 1.6.33 Station pipe work
10 - 1.6.34 Strength test
10 - 1.6.35 Telescoped pipeline
10 - 1.6.36 Wall thickness, nominal
11 - SECTION 2 PREPARATION FOR OPERATION
11 - 2.1 GENERAL
11 - 2.2 PLANS AND PROCEDURES
11 - 2.3 RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PERSONNEL
11 - 2.4 READINESS FOR OPERATION
12 - 2.5 DELAYED COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATION
12 - 2.6 PURGING AND FILLING A PIPELINE-PROCEDURES
12 - 2.6.1 General
13 - 2.6.2 Filling a gas pipeline
13 - 2.6.3 Filling a liquid petroleum pipeline
14 - 2.6.4 Filling a high vapour pressure liquid (HVPL) pipeline
15 - SECTION 3 PIPELINE INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT
15 - 3.1 BASIS OF SECTION
15 - 3.2 GENERAL
15 - 3.3 PIPELINE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
16 - 3.4 THREAT MITIGATION
16 - 3.4.1 General
17 - 3.5 SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
17 - 3.5.1 General
18 - SECTION 4 PLANS AND PROCEDURES
18 - 4.1 GENERAL
18 - 4.2 SAFETY AND OPERATING PLAN
18 - 4.2.1 General
18 - 4.2.2 Safety and operating plan requirements
19 - 4.2.3 Audit of compliance to safety and operating plan
19 - 4.3 EMERGENCY PLANS
21 - 4.4 PROCEDURES
22 - SECTION 5 PIPELINE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
22 - 5.1 GENERAL
22 - 5.2 OPERATING AND DESIGN CONDITIONS
22 - 5.3 PIPELINE INSPECTION AND ASSESSMENT
22 - 5.3.1 General
22 - 5.3.2 Frequency of inspection assessment
23 - 5.3.3 Leakage survey and detection
23 - 5.3.4 Assessment of results and appropriate action
23 - 5.3.5 Internal surfaces
23 - 5.3.6 External surfaces
23 - 5.4 PIPE WALL DEFECT ASSESSMENT
23 - 5.4.1 Damaged pipework
24 - 5.4.2 Corroded pipework
24 - 5.4.3 Assessment of corroded pipework
26 - 5.5 COATINGS
26 - 5.5.1 Above-ground pipework
26 - 5.5.2 Below-ground pipework
27 - 5.5.3 Coating repairs
27 - 5.6 CATHODIC PROTECTION
27 - 5.6.1 Criteria
27 - 5.6.2 Personnel
27 - 5.6.3 Commissioning of cathodic protection systems
27 - 5.6.4 Operation, maintenance and monitoring of cathodic protection systems
27 - 5.6.5 Measuring equipment
27 - 5.6.6 Interference
27 - 5.6.7 Records
28 - 5.7 INTERNAL SURFACES
28 - 5.7.1 Mitigation audits
28 - 5.7.2 Personnel
28 - 5.8 STATIONS
28 - 5.8.1 General
28 - 5.8.2 Pressure control and protective equipment inspection
29 - 5.8.3 Site security
29 - 5.8.4 Structure
29 - 5.8.5 Structures housing equipment
29 - 5.9 ANCILLIARY EQUIPMENT
29 - 5.9.1 General
29 - 5.9.2 Valves
29 - 5.9.3 Pipe supports
30 - 5.9.4 Ground entry locations
30 - 5.9.5 Pig trap inspection and maintenance
30 - 5.9.6 Underwater pipelines
30 - 5.9.7 Tunnels, shafts and valve pits
30 - 5.9.8 Casings (sleeve) maintenance
31 - SECTION 6 THREAT MITIGATION
31 - 6.1 GENERAL
31 - 6.2 PIPELINE SURVEILLANCE
31 - 6.2.1 General
31 - 6.2.2 Patrol of route
32 - 6.3 PIPELINE MARKING
33 - 6.4 EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE PREVENTION
33 - 6.4.1 General
34 - 6.4.2 Access to the pipeline
34 - 6.4.3 Prohibition of buildings near the pipeline
34 - 6.4.4 Vegetation on and near the pipeline
34 - 6.5 CONTROLLING ACTIVITIES NEAR PIPELINES
34 - 6.5.1 General
35 - 6.5.2 Addition of fill on or near the pipeline
35 - 6.5.3 Power and telegraph poles, fencing, seismic and land disturbance activities
35 - 6.5.4 Explosives
36 - 6.5.5 One-call-services
36 - 6.5.6 Operating Authority activities
37 - SECTION 7 SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
37 - 7.1 GENERAL
37 - 7.2 EMERGENCY RESPONSE
37 - 7.3 VENTING PROCEDURES
37 - 7.3.1 Precautions to prevent an explosion
38 - 7.3.2 Venting gas
38 - 7.4 PROCEDURES TO FREE PIPELINES OF HYDROCARBONS
38 - 7.4.1 General
38 - 7.4.2 Gas
38 - 7.4.3 Hydrocarbon liquid
39 - 7.4.4 Purging an HVPL
39 - 7.4.5 Trapped hydrocarbon
39 - 7.5 COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
39 - 7.6 SCADA
40 - 7.7 PIPELINE FACILITY CONTROL
40 - 7.8 NOISE ABATEMENT
40 - 7.9 ENVIRONMENT
40 - 7.10 ELECTRICAL SAFETY ON METALLIC PIPELINES
41 - SECTION 8 OPERATING CONDITION CHANGES
41 - 8.1 DESIGN CONDITION CHANGES
42 - 8.2 PRESSURE TESTING OF DESIGN CONDITION CHANGES
42 - 8.3 PIPELINE MODIFICATIONS
42 - 8.4 REVIEW OF PRESSURE- CONTROL AND OVER- PRESSURE PROTECTION SYSTEMS
42 - 8.5 REVIEW OF DESIGN LIFE
43 - 8.6 REVIEW OF MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE OPERATING PRESSURE (MAOP)
43 - 8.7 REVIEW OF LOCATION CLASSES
43 - 8.8 REVIEW OF RISK ASSESSMENT
43 - 8.9 OPERATION OF A SUSPENDED PIPELINE
44 - 8.10 ABANDONING A PIPELINE
44 - 8.10.1 General
44 - 8.10.2 Abandonment in place
44 - 8.10.3 Abandonment by removal
44 - 8.11 ABANDONMENT OF ABOVE-GROUND PIPELINES
44 - 8.12 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ABANDONMENT
45 - 8.13 ABANDONMENT RECORDS
47 - SECTION 9 PIPE LINE REPAIRS
47 - 9.1 GENERAL
47 - 9.2 SUPERVISION
47 - 9.3 COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL
47 - 9.4 WORKING ON PIPELINES
47 - 9.4.1 General
47 - 9.4.2 Tunnels, shafts, and casing
47 - 9.4.3 Construction safety
48 - 9.4.4 Precautions to prevent an explosion
49 - 9.4.5 Pipelines filled with hydrocarbon gas
49 - 9.4.6 Pipelines filled with liquid petroleum or HVPL
49 - 9.4.7 Purged pipelines
50 - 9.5 REPAIR STRATEGY
50 - 9.5.1 Initial response
50 - 9.5.2 Repair strategy flow chart
50 - 9.5.3 Temporary repairs
50 - 9.5.4 Permanent repairs
51 - 9.6 WELDING ONTO AN IN-SERVICE PIPELINE
51 - 9.6.1 General
51 - 9.6.2 Monitoring of operating conditions
51 - 9.6.3 Resumption of normal operation
53 - 9.7 HOT-TAPPING OPERATIONS
54 - SECTION 10 RECORDS
54 - 10.1 GENERAL
54 - 10.2 DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMISSIONING RECORDS
55 - 10.3 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE RECORDS
55 - 10.4 ABANDOMENT RECORDS
56 - APPENDIX A - LIST OF REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
56 - A1 IDENTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS
56 - A2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
58 - APPENDIX B - DOCUMENT HIERARCHY
59 - APPENDIX C - LIST OF APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS
59 - C1 CONCEPT OF APPROVAL
59 - C2 PRINCIPLES
59 - C3 LIST OF APPROVED ITEMS
61 - APPENDIX D - ASSESSMENT OF A CORRODED PIPELINE
61 - D1 SCOPE
61 - D2 ASSESSMENT BY PRESSURE TESTING
61 - D3 ASSESSMENT BY CALCULATION
61 - D3.1 General
62 - D3.2 Hoop stress analysis
72 - APPENDIX E - TYPICAL PIPELINE MARKERS

Specifies minimum requirements for the operation and maintenance of pipelines designed to AS 2885.1. It also applies to pipelines designed and built under those Standards superseded by this Standard, when they are modified to operate under the conditions within the scope of this Standard.

This Standard specifies the minimum requirements for the operation and maintenance of pipelines complying with AS 2885.1 and AS 2885.2.

First published in part as part of AS CB28-1972.
Revised and redesignated AS 1697-1975.
AS 1958 first published 1976.
AS 2018 first published 1977.
Second edition AS 1697-1979.
Third edition 1981.
Second edition AS 1958-1981.
Second edition AS 2018-1981.
AS 1958-1981 and parts of AS 1697-1981 and AS 2018-1981 revised, amalgmated and redesignated AS 2885-1987.
Parts of AS 1697-1981, AS 2018-1981 and AS 2885-1987 revised, amalgamated and redesignated in part as AS 2885.3-1997.
Second edition 2001.