Safety Alert
Safety Alert 264 - Dynamic Pipeline Riser Inspection, Maintenance, & Monitoring Records on OCS Floating Facilities
Safety Alert 264 - Dynamic Pipeline Riser Inspection, Maintenance, & Monitoring Records on OCS Floating Facilities
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 264
- Inspection and MaintenanceStructural and Asset Integrity
- Hydrocarbon releaseRegulation and legislationStructural and asset integrity
- Inspection and maintenance
- Process pipework and pipelines
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
MMS highlights dynamic pipeline riser integrity following flexible-joint failures in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004 and 2008. It strongly urges regular maintenance, inspection, environmental monitoring and recordkeeping. Diver inspection identified the 2008 leak source, but root cause analysis remained incomplete. Revised API guidance was under consideration for future regulatory adoption.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
The alert sets out recordkeeping expectations for inspection, maintenance and monitoring of dynamic pipeline risers.
BSEE Safety Alert 264. Themes: inspection and maintenance, structural and asset integrity.