Pipeline Integrity Monitoring

Omnisens offers comprehensive solution for pipeline inspection and integrity

Pipelines are essential components of the energy supply chain and the monitoring of their integrity has become a major task of the pipeline management and control. Pipelines are being laid over very long distances in remote areas affected by many threats.
Pipeline threats
	Ground movements, landslides, earthquakes Harsh environments with seasonal soil texture changes, Leaks Third party intrusion, hot tapping Work in constructions Corrosion

These threats involve excessive deformations, fatigue, material flaws and eventually lead to leaks or major pipeline failures with huge environmental, cost and image impacts.

Pipeline Integrity monitoring approach

Omnisens systems continuously monitor the entire pipeline using dedicated fiber optic sensing cable independently from the pipeline operation itself. Very small variations in temperature, strain and sound are located within meter along the entire pipeline, analyzed and classified as anomalies or threats. This allows operators to anticipate failures at a very early stage and avoid huge operation costs associated to pipeline failures in high consequences areas.

Omnisens monitoring solutions for pipeline integrity applications
	DITEST LTM	DITEST AIM
Leak detection Detection of leakages is performed through continuous monitoring of local temperature variations around the pipeline. Detection limits as small as 10ml/min have been demonstrated over 40 km.	X	X
Ground movement monitoring Monitoring of ground stability using dedicated Strain sensitive fiber optic cables and geotextiles along the pipeline gives real-time information on the level of strain the pipeline is exposed to.		X
Intrusion Third party intrusion, work in construction, digging activities on buried pipeline are very early threats leading to potential pipeline failure. Those threats can be precisely detected, classified and located before any damage is done to the pipeline.		X