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BAKER ENGINEERING AND RISK CONSULTANTS, INC. LOCATIONS

SAN ANTONIO | HOUSTON | LOS ANGELES | CHICAGO

TORONTO, CANADA | CHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

Head Office

3330 Oakwell Court, Suite 100

San Antonio, TX 78218-3024

Tel: (210) 824-5960

BAKERRISK’S HIGHLY EXPERIENCED STAFF OFFERS:

• Risk analysts with an average of over 20 years experience

• Specific experience leading safety programs as employees of pipeline operating companies

• Multidisciplinary experience that enables identification of the critical issues associated with pipeline design, operations, and maintenance, and is not tied to a single aspect of pipeline performance

PIPELINE RISK MANAGEMENTManaging RiskEffective pipeline risk management incorporates the concept of failure event frequency with the potential consequences of that event. BakerRisk’s approach to pipeline risk assessment is to identify areas of priority at a high level and focus on progressively greater levels of detail using our detailed frequency models and sophisticated consequence analysis tools.

It is critical not to view pipeline risk management solely through a single perspective such as corrosion protection, emergency response, or isolation philosophy but rather as an integrated management plan.

The diagram below illustrates the many facets of pipeline risk management, from preventing a release to minimizing the impacts should a release occur.

BakerRisk staff have experience in these subject areas as members and managers of safety groups in pipeline operating companies. Other staff members have years of experience in the modeling of pipeline reliability and/or consequences of releases. In addition, if needed, BakerRisk supplements its in-house expertise with external partners. This experience, technology, and access to resources ensures that BakerRisk can provide the most accurate and comprehensive pipeline risk management services available.

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External Corrosion

3rd Party Damage

Internal Corrosion/

Erosion

Natural Hazards

Materials/Design

Coating Cathodic Protection

Materials/Design

Loss Prevention

Culture

Criteria

IncidentAnalysis

Inspections

Inspections

Training Procedures

Stress Relieving

Public Education

One Call System

Surveillance

Loss of Containment

Leak Detection Systems

Leak Reporting Hotline

Remote Isolation

Capability

Field Response

Ground Cover

Remediation (e.g. soil

Treatment)

Remediation (e.g. well Pumping)

Remediation (e.g. well Pumping)

Openwater Spill

Response

Release to Atmosphere (fire, explosion, toxic)

Soil Contamination

Soil and Groundwater Contamination

Soil, Groundwater and Surface

Water Contamination

Threats ImpactsBarriers Top Event Mitigative Measures

MonitoringDesign

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BAKER ENGINEERING AND RISK CONSULTANTS, INC. LOCATIONS

SAN ANTONIO | HOUSTON | LOS ANGELES | CHICAGO

TORONTO, CANADA | CHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

Head Office

3330 Oakwell Court, Suite 100

San Antonio, TX 78218-3024

Tel: (210) 824-5960

ABOUT BAKERRISKBaker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc. is one of the world’s leading explosion analysis, structural design, and risk engineering companies. BakerRisk provides comprehensive consulting, engineering, laboratory and range testing services to government agencies and private companies who are involved with dangerous, highly hazardous, reactive, or explosive materials.

• Blast Effects & Explosion Testing• Dynamic Structural Analysis and

Design• Risk Engineering• Process Safety• Incident Investigations• Reactive Chemicals Testing &

Management Systems• Materials Engineering and Failure

Analysis

February 2015

PREDICTIVE TOOLS

BakerRisk’s approach to identifying high consequence areas (HCA) involves a comprehensive reliability model for your pipeline. This approach includes identifying and ranking pipeline segments that have the potential to impact sensitive areas such as populations and the environment. In addition, further analysis can allow for pipeline business interruption and plant damage risks to be estimated.

Our state-of-the-art SafeSite3G® software

models the impact of failures, including dispersion, fire, and explosion events. The models developed can account for a variety of environmental factors, including weather conditions, terrain change, and liquid/gas flow after loss of containment. SafeSite3G

® software models incorporate theories developed and tested at BakerRisk, including data from past incident investigations.

BakerRisk also licenses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software programs to provide detailed results on potential consequences of pipeline accident scenarios. CFD codes are often used to study pipeline rupture consequences such as dispersion, temperature profiles, thermal radiation profiles, pipeline structural response, debris radii, likely failure points, etc.

CFD Pipeline Structural Response Model

CFD Pipeline Temperature Profile

HCA Analysis