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Title: Distribution Integrity Management For Plastic Gas Pipelines
Author: K. Oliphant
Source: American Gas Association 2009
Year Published: 2009
Abstract: The objective of a Distribution Integrity Management Program (DIMP) is to manage the integrity of our gas distribution systems. DIMP does this through applying structure to our knowledge to enable us to make a risk evaluation of the distribution system. This in turn enables us to plan and prioritize our integrity management programs. One of the challenges in DIMP is that we never have perfect knowledge to input into this process. We also do not have the resources to collect perfect knowledge. Knowledge Management, therefore, plays a critical role in DIMP. What do we need to know? What can we know? How can we cost effectively obtain the knowledge we need? How can we optimize the usefulness of what we already know? A successful DIMP program assists us in addressing these questions in an iterative fashion: we collect the knowledge available, make our preliminary assessments, identify the knowledge gaps and then prioritize those areas where we need to close the knowledge gap. This new knowledge then feeds back into the DIMP process to help us refine our assessments and further prioritize our knowledge gaps. With a well structured Knowledge Management approach we are able, through this process, to continue to build our knowledge in a targeted and cost effective manner. This, in turn, enables us to better manage our pipelines.

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