ABSTRACT

Corrosion of ageing pipelines is found to be a significant problem both onshore and within the subsea area. In order to determine the remaining time in service for such pipelines, it is required that deterministic capacity models are established as well as associated probability models for the key parameters. Having obtained these models, a proper reliability analysis and risk assessment can be performed. In the present paper, system modeling is focused upon both with respect to method of analysis and computational results.