Management of pipeline systems is never simple, and regulations concerning safety issues continue to be major concerns as firms strive to comply and avoid negative publicity that occurs from leaks and spills. Management of these issues, starting at the wellhead field and following through the entire distribution chain has had to meet new challenges, and many new advances using GIS mapping and similar related software tools have been developed to answer this need. Pipeline integrity management is concerned with a plethora of safety issues that involve risk analysis of identified high consequence areas (HCAs). Since pipelines carry a high volume of petroleum products, there is a potential serious consequence if a break or spill occurs. Regulations and industry standards have been developed to limit and the consequence as much as possible. These are enforced by the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS). All of the points that are part of these regulations have been incorporated into the Pipeline integrity software solutions that are available from Eaglemap.com, which is technical engineering services supplier that has long been in service to the petroleum industry.

This experienced. Professional firm supports all aspects of designing a pipeline down to the management of an existing pipeline. They furnish state-of-the-art Pipeline GIS Integrity Management software, which they have integrated with Pipeline Open Data Standard (PODS) and the ArcGIS Pipeline Data Model (APDM). The available software solutions are configurable to allow inputting of data sets that may be formatted in a non-standard structure of a data model. The Pipeline integrity tools that their clients receive will generate a risk management analysis that other software tools can identify, and will identify pipeline segments that have a potential to be high consequence areas (HCAs) in the event of an accidental spillage. Their tools are able to calculate potential initial and residual spill volumes and their dispersion if a break or leak occurs. It will also estimate the mitigation response time and other parameters that are required to create a consequence profile along the pipeline route. The output reports can provide details on the HCA impact for various hypothetical models of accidental discharges.