GOING TO AN PROTECTION OF PIPELINES GE OIL & GAS, PII PIPELINE SOLUTION INTRODUCTION INDEX

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INTRODUCTION

GE OIL & GAS, PII PIPELINE SOLUTION

1.1 About GE’s Oil & Gas Business...2

1.2 Major Locations...2

1.3 Product & Services...3

1.3.1 GE's Oil & Gas Portfolio...3

1.4 GE Brands – “A Wealth of Experience ... From Wellhead to Consumer”...6

1.5 Pipeline Services & Solutions Locations...8

1.5.1 Centres of Excellence...8

PROTECTION OF PIPELINES

2.1 The nature of metal loss...9

2.2 GE inspection capabilities…...9

2.3 Metal loss anomalies...10

2.4 The right tool for any challenge...11

2.5 The benefits beyond inspection...11

2.6 Inspection Tools…...12

2.6.1 MagneScan………....12

2.6.2 UltraScan WM/UltraScan Duo………...13

2.6.3 SmartScan……….….14

2.7 PipeImage 5.1 data analysis………...15

2.8 Many other software tools to enhance the long-term value of your pipeline………16

2.9 General View about GE Oil & Gas………...18

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3.1 Launch...20

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MEDIA, SOFTWARE AND PROCESSES USED

BY PII FOR DATA RETENTION

4.1 Media, software and process of data retention used from 1980 to 1992...31

4.2 Media, software and process of data retention used from 1992 to 1994...35

4.3 Media, software and process of data retention used from 1994 to 1996...40

4.4 Media, software and process of data retention used from 1996 to 2003...41

4.5 Media, software and process of data retention used from 2001 to 2003 (side by side the previous method)...44

4.6 Media, software and process of data retention used from 2003 to nowadays...47

4.7 Procedures for conversion and transfer data of previous inspection to the new media used by PII...50

4.7.1 Procedure used to transfer the data from 1980 to 1996...51

4.7.2 Procedure used to transfer the data from 1996 to 2003...51

4.7.3 Procedure used to transfer the data from 2001 to 2003...51

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT

5.1 PII Historic Inspection data: Overall Description of the project...54

5.2 PII Historic Inspection Data: Design of the Project...55

PII HISTORIC DATA RETENTION & STORAGE SOLUTIONS

6.1 Risks: What does this mean to PII?...58

6.2 Meetings and Survey……….59

6.2.1 Meetings……….60

6.2.2 Survey Study: Internal PII Survey……….60

6.3 Conversion of Historic Data (Analyst Effort)...67

6.3.1 Estimation Time: Division of inspections for period and distance………68

6.4 Historic Database: Creation of Combined Information...71

6.5 eDelivery Enhancement: Use of the New Historic Database to verify if a new inspection has any previous inspection……….78

6.6 Number of Tapes per Year: A study to show the number of tapes PII stored every year from 1980 to 2006...83

6.7 Analyze Results: A Boundary Line study of Data Tapes elimination...86

6.8 Future Storage Media: A Study comparing alternative storage media solutions…..90

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6.8.2 Cost Comparison without Conversion Costs...93

6.9 Conversion Cost: Cost Analysis for safeguarding all Tapes onto new Media……..95

CONCLUSION: DERIVED OPTIONS

7.1 Conversion of all Data………...97

7.2 Historic Database…...101

7.3 Different solutions...104

7.4 Conversion Process...106

7.5 Final In-House Solution...107

7.6 Final Recommendations...109