CSA Z662:23 Pipeline Systems Essentials

Overview

This course stresses the importance of integrating CSA Z662 at every stage of a pipeline system’s life cycle to help ensure pipeline safety and integrity on people, equipment, and the environment. Participants will learn through a holistic approach, from the initial design through to the abandonment of the pipeline system, understanding the requirements, application, and CSA Z662’s relationship with regulatory requirements.

CSA Z662 is a National Standard of Canada, and is referenced in all federal, provincial, and territorial regulation, many of whom adopt the new edition immediately upon release.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you will be able to:

• Consult the scope of CSA Z662 to determine if the applicable pipeline and or equipment is covered in the Standard or not.
• Identify the essential elements of safety and loss management systems (SLMS) within CSA Z662.
• Explain the importance and application of engineering assessment throughout the life cycle of a pipeline.
• Explain the essential elements of the pipeline design requirements in Clauses 4 and 5 of CSA Z662.
• Summarize the requirements for construction of pipeline systems in Canada.
• Explain how to manage the risk (impact and likelihood) of pipeline failure.
• Explain the various damage and deterioration mechanisms of pipelines.
• Identify various technologies utilized to inspect and verify pipeline damage and overstress concerns and methods of pipeline repair and rehabilitation.
• Describe how different Clauses in CSA Z662 impact your role in the pipeline system’s life cycle.

Target Audience

• Directors
• Design Engineers
• Construction Supervisors
• Operations Managers
• Integrity Managers
• Project Managers
• Health and Safety Environment Advisor
• QC/QA Professionals
• Records Management Professionals
• Technologist
• Pipeline Inspectors
• Regulatory staffs in both federal and provincial level

Course Outline

Scope

• Oil industry fluids
• Gas industry fluids

Terminology

• Critical terms
• Newly defined terms

Management Systems

• Safety and Loss Management
• Integrity Management
• Engineering assessments

Risk management

• Risk Acceptance Criteria
• Risk Assessment, including hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk evaluation
• Risk Control
• Risk Monitoring and Review
• Communication and Documentation

Pipeline Design 

• Pressure containment
• Area Classification
• Component design
• Compressor and pump station design
• Operational control

Materials

• Material toughness
• Material Selection
• Reuse of Materials

Construction

• ROW activities
• Transport and Handling
• Inspection techniques

Installation

• Activities on pipeline rights-of- way
• Clearing, grading, and ground disturbances
• Pipe and components handling
• Bends and elbows in steel piping
• Alignment and welding
• Protective coatings

Joining

• Arc and gas welding — General
• Arc and gas welding — Joint configurations
• Welding details of opening with localized type of reinforcement
• Welding details for branch-to-run pipe connection
• Arc and gas welding — Materials
• Pipe and components
• Filler metals and fluxes
• Shielding gases
• Arc and gas welding — Qualification of welding procedure specifications
• Welding procedure specifications
• Welding process and method

Operations

• Safety
• Corrosion protection
• ROW inspections
• Repairs
• Pipeline operations & maintenance
• Pipeline deactivation, reactivation and abandonment

Izak Roux 

Izak is a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years experience in integrity management of pressure equipment, pipelines and aeronautics engineering. He has extensive experience in the application of NDE technics, finite element analysis and fatigue assessments. He has been involved in pipeline integrity and construction quality assurance and, since 2003, in the application of CSA Z662 for upstream facilities and steam pipelines for SAGD facilities. Izak has worked in the Alberta oil and gas and utilities industries, and has acted as contract Chief Inspector for various oil and gas companies and a number of SAGD projects. Izak is Vice Chair of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Council of Alberta, and member of the CSA B51 Technical Committee and ASME Post Construction Subcommittee on Inspection Planning. Izak is also a management and engineering consultant to the energy and utilities industries.

Kash Verma 

Kash Verma is a highly respected engineering professional with over 36 years experience in the oil and gas industry. He is an innovative and strategic thinker who exercises sound technical, analytical and engineering skills to deliver multi-million dollar projects. Kash is successful in leading, guiding and mentoring others to excel at work and in their personal lives. Kash has been a training consultant/instructor for over 5 years after leaving Amoco/BP. He is ranked excellent by his students for his ability to transfer and share his oil and gas experience, skills and knowledge. He has designed and written several courses for the pipeline industry. Kash Verma has M. Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta and BC.

Recommended Readings

CSA Z662:23, Oil and gas pipeline systems