• S S Gupta
• Dr. Adarsh Kumar Arya
• Dr.P. Vijay

Abstract Cross country pipelines are the backbone for transportation of petroleum product of a developing country like India. Pipeline systems are usually considered to be the safest mode of transportation of petroleum product, however, any failure in a pipeline may cause significant damage to the environment, local population and the business of the pipeline operator. One of the major causes of pipeline failure is third party damage, various international pipeline failure databases indicate that nearly 40% of all pipeline failures are due to third party damage. Paper discusses the details of failures occurred previously due to third party damage in developed and developing nations. The paper intends to develop a risk model which identifies the factors responsible for third party damage & their relative significance for the Indian Scenario. The failure data is scattered & sporadic, and literature suggests multiple schemes for different parameters on a country or locality specific scale. The failure data varies from each country & continent. The relevant factors have been selected based on the previous failure history in India and abroad. The range of parameters and their relative scorings have been devised through Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The developed model was applied to a 10 inch X 135 km cross country pipeline petroleum passing through a varying demographics. The model displays the risk level of the pipeline along its length and hence provides insight for a maintenance program that reduces the risk to the acceptable level at each segment. The objective of this work is to assist pipeline owners to design their pipeline Maintenance & Inspection (M&I) program in a manner that the probability of failure from third party activity is reduced at the identified sections where the risk of third party damage is high.

Third party Damage, Pipelines, Hydrocarbon, M&I, Right of Way (ROW)

"An Approach to Determine Probability of Third-Party Damage To Cross-Country Pipelines in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.290-304, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C04.pdf

"An Approach to Determine Probability of Third-Party Damage To Cross-Country Pipelines in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp290-304, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C04.pdf