2018 Annual Pipeline Safety Conference DATA …...Program Overview: Historically Natural Gas...
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2018 Annual Pipeline Safety
Conference
DATA SUMMARY
ROB HORENSKY
FUVE SUPERVISOR
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION
Program Overview
Currently 13 inspectors with one pending hire
4 Supervisors(west, central, north and SE)
2017 Distribution Mileage: 48,139
2017 Number of Services: 2,861,193
Total Number of Operators: Private 24,
Municipal 2, LPG 7, LNG 4, Hazardous Liquid
7, 400+ Mastermeter
Program Overview
Times are changing:
Program Overview:
Historically Natural Gas Distribution > 90%
Presently:
Pipeline Safety also inspecting Act 127
Gathering and Propane Operators, Hazardous
Liquids, Storage and Master Meter
I&E also investigates water, wastewater and
steam(Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh)
Intrastate Pipeline Facilities Overview - Gas
2017 Gas Transmission Mileage: 1,276
2017 Jurisdictional Gathering Line Mileage: 799
Estimated Unregulated Gathering Line Mileage:
estimated at over 10,000 miles (Class 1)
Possibility this may be regulated in the future
Gas Underground Storage Facilities: 7
Total Number of Operators: Intrastate Transmission
37, Gathering 30
Intrastate Pipeline Facilities –
Hazardous Liquids2017 HL Mileage: 1,230
2017 HL Commodities: NGL(HVLs), Refined
Petroleum
2017 Total Number of Operators: 7
New construction
Joint jurisdiction with PHMSA
Public Utilities
Gas Distribution Pipeline Materials Cast Iron Main Mileage: 2,629
Unprotected Bare Steel Mileage: 6,807
Unprotected Coated Mileage: 460
Ductile Iron Mileage: 178
Coated Protected Steel Mileage: 12,468
Plastic Main Mileage: 24,014
Reconditioned CI: 5
Approximately 390 miles of bare and cast
replaced in 2017
4.1% statewide average removed ~25 years
2017 Miles of Main Replaced
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A B C D E F G H
2015-2017 miles of Bad Pipe
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2015Bad Pipe Miles 2016 Bad Pipe Miles 2017 Bad Pipe Miles
2017 Main replacement cost per Operator
** Total spend in 2017 in PA was over $507 million
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A B C D E F G H
Actual Cost Dollars Budget Cost Dollars
Cost Per Mile
** 2017 statewide average is $1.405
million/mile
$0
$500,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
$2,500,000
A B C D E F G H
Riser Failures: 2015-2017
20172016
2015
0
50
100
150
Nu
mb
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of
Fa
iled
Ris
ers
*288 riser failures
in 2017,
*33 more than
2016
Riser Data: 2017
16%
84%
Ownership of Risers in PA- 2017
Customer owned risers Utility owned risers
Riser Data: 2017
25%
12%63%
How Riser Failure Addressed in Operator's DIMP,
2017
DIMP
addresses riser
failure
DIMP does NOT
addresses Riser
Failure
Inside Meter Sets
0
100000
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300000
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A b c d e f g h# o
f in
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ts
Companies
2014 2015 2016 2017
886,815 inside
meter sets in PA !!
Inside Meter Sets removed/yr
-15000
-10000
-5000
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10000
15000
A B C D E F G H
2014 2015 2016
Damage Prevention Program 2017PA Act 50
Statewide average : 3.2 Damages
per 1,000 tickets marked(annual
downward trend)
Over 638,000 tickets marked in 2017
2,020 hits in 2017
Damage Prevention Program 2017:
8.1 8.27.5 7.2
5.7 5.5 5.6
4.2 4.43.8 3.4 3.1 3.3 3.2
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Yearly Average of Line Hits Per 1,000 Tickets
Marked
Damage Prevention Program 2017
1.021.68
3.35
1.92
3.79
2.52
9.60
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2.00
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6.00
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A B C D E F G
Companies
2017 LH per 1000 TM by Operator
Damage Prevention Program 2017
Company
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Company
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Company
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Company
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Company
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Company
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Company
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utility at fault 3 39 21 74 205 115 100
project owner 22 89 140 164 109 332 461
050
100150200250300350400450500
Utility vs. Project Owner at Fault
utility at fault project owner
Hazardous Leaks
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# o
f le
aks
Companies
Immediate Fix Leaks-2017
Leak Data
A B C D E F G H
Number of Leaks Discovered
that Require Immediate Fix622 1963 462 580 45 730 119 544
Number of Leaks Discovered
that are Required to be Fixed
within 12 Months not to Exceed
15 Months
2280 6673 274 1319 0 1192 97 584
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ks
0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0
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Company B
Company C
Company D
Company E
Company F
Company G
Company H
Company I
Miles of Coated Unprotected Mains
Installed after 1970 (Distr.)