Canadian Operational Research Society

Calgary Section

http://www.corscalgary.org/

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

When: Noon to 1:30 PM, Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Room 217

TransCanada Tower

450 - 1 Street SW

(See attached map)

SPEAKER

Alexis Hudy

Asset Reliability Group, Core Systems Integrity

TransCanada Pipelines Limited

TOPIC

The Development Process of the Plant Risk Tool Model

Abstract:

While the hydraulic aspects of the flow of natural gas through TransCanada’s network of pipe have been modelled and provide a vital input to the operations/business management decision-making process, compression assets have not previously been captured by a simulation. As the system of compressions stations occur in series along the Canadian Mainline, a failure at one or more of the stations can have an equally significant impact on system reliability, and the ability to deliver product, as a pipeline failure itself. The Asset Reliability department has begun to capture operational and functional fundamentals of the compression stations and their interactions in an initiative to simulate the system to provide input to asset management. The Plant Risk Tool model and its development process as well as the use of Rockwell Software’s Arena 10.0 package in compression asset reliability will be presented.

About the Speaker:

Alexis Hudy graduated from the University of Calgary in June 2006 with a B.Sc. Manufacturing Engineering, minor applied mathematics. In the summer of 2005 Alexis worked in lean systems design as a summer internship student at Eaton Cutler-Hammer in Calgary gaining experience in manufacturing fundamentals. Following graduation, Alexis began with TransCanada PipeLines in the Asset Reliability group, Core Systems Integrity. At TransCanada, major projects include risk analysis and discrete event simulation of compression service assets on the pipeline.