2018 Annual Pipeline Safety Conference DATA …...Program Overview: Historically Natural Gas Distribution > 90% Presently: Pipeline Safety also inspecting Act 127 Gathering and Propane

2018 Annual Pipeline Safety

Conference

DATA SUMMARY

ROB HORENSKY

FUVE SUPERVISOR

BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT

PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION

Program Overview

Currently 13 inspectors with one pending hire

4 Supervisors(west, central, north and SE)

2017 Distribution Mileage: 48,139

2017 Number of Services: 2,861,193

Total Number of Operators: Private 24,

Municipal 2, LPG 7, LNG 4, Hazardous Liquid

7, 400+ Mastermeter

Program Overview

Times are changing:

Program Overview:

Historically Natural Gas Distribution > 90%

Presently:

Pipeline Safety also inspecting Act 127

Gathering and Propane Operators, Hazardous

Liquids, Storage and Master Meter

I&E also investigates water, wastewater and

steam(Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh)

Intrastate Pipeline Facilities Overview - Gas

2017 Gas Transmission Mileage: 1,276

2017 Jurisdictional Gathering Line Mileage: 799

Estimated Unregulated Gathering Line Mileage:

estimated at over 10,000 miles (Class 1)

Possibility this may be regulated in the future

Gas Underground Storage Facilities: 7

Total Number of Operators: Intrastate Transmission

37, Gathering 30

Intrastate Pipeline Facilities –

Hazardous Liquids2017 HL Mileage: 1,230

2017 HL Commodities: NGL(HVLs), Refined

Petroleum

2017 Total Number of Operators: 7

New construction

Joint jurisdiction with PHMSA

Public Utilities

Gas Distribution Pipeline Materials Cast Iron Main Mileage: 2,629

Unprotected Bare Steel Mileage: 6,807

Unprotected Coated Mileage: 460

Ductile Iron Mileage: 178

Coated Protected Steel Mileage: 12,468

Plastic Main Mileage: 24,014

Reconditioned CI: 5

Approximately 390 miles of bare and cast

replaced in 2017

4.1% statewide average removed ~25 years

2017 Miles of Main Replaced

0.00

20.00

40.00

60.00

80.00

100.00

120.00

A B C D E F G H

2015-2017 miles of Bad Pipe

0

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1000

1500

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2500

3000

3500

A B D E F G H I

2015Bad Pipe Miles 2016 Bad Pipe Miles 2017 Bad Pipe Miles

2017 Main replacement cost per Operator

** Total spend in 2017 in PA was over $507 million

$0

$50,000,000

$100,000,000

$150,000,000

$200,000,000

$250,000,000

A B C D E F G H

Actual Cost Dollars Budget Cost Dollars

Cost Per Mile

** 2017 statewide average is $1.405

million/mile

$0

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

A B C D E F G H

Riser Failures: 2015-2017

20172016

2015

0

50

100

150

Nu

mb

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of

Fa

iled

Ris

ers

*288 riser failures

in 2017,

*33 more than

2016

Riser Data: 2017

16%

84%

Ownership of Risers in PA- 2017

Customer owned risers Utility owned risers

Riser Data: 2017

25%

12%63%

How Riser Failure Addressed in Operator's DIMP,

2017

DIMP

addresses riser

failure

DIMP does NOT

addresses Riser

Failure

Inside Meter Sets

0

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

A b c d e f g h# o

f in

sid

e m

ete

r se

ts

Companies

2014 2015 2016 2017

886,815 inside

meter sets in PA !!

Inside Meter Sets removed/yr

-15000

-10000

-5000

0

5000

10000

15000

A B C D E F G H

2014 2015 2016

Damage Prevention Program 2017PA Act 50

Statewide average : 3.2 Damages

per 1,000 tickets marked(annual

downward trend)

Over 638,000 tickets marked in 2017

2,020 hits in 2017

Damage Prevention Program 2017:

8.1 8.27.5 7.2

5.7 5.5 5.6

4.2 4.43.8 3.4 3.1 3.3 3.2

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Yearly Average of Line Hits Per 1,000 Tickets

Marked

Damage Prevention Program 2017

1.021.68

3.35

1.92

3.79

2.52

9.60

0.00

2.00

4.00

6.00

8.00

10.00

12.00

A B C D E F G

Companies

2017 LH per 1000 TM by Operator

Damage Prevention Program 2017

Company

A

Company

B

Company

C

Company

D

Company

E

Company

F

Company

G

utility at fault 3 39 21 74 205 115 100

project owner 22 89 140 164 109 332 461

050

100150200250300350400450500

Utility vs. Project Owner at Fault

utility at fault project owner

Hazardous Leaks

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500

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1500

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2500

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

# o

f le

aks

Companies

Immediate Fix Leaks-2017

Leak Data

A B C D E F G H

Number of Leaks Discovered

that Require Immediate Fix622 1963 462 580 45 730 119 544

Number of Leaks Discovered

that are Required to be Fixed

within 12 Months not to Exceed

15 Months

2280 6673 274 1319 0 1192 97 584

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

Lea

ks

0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0

Company A

Company B

Company C

Company D

Company E

Company F

Company G

Company H

Company I

Miles of Coated Unprotected Mains

Installed after 1970 (Distr.)