Enter Synergi Pipeline, DNV’s enterprise solution to improve pipeline asset performance and safety. This comprehensive solution supports integrity and risk management in all phases of the asset’s lifecycle, from assessing the pipeline’s risk to managing and analysing inspection data, to planning mitigation actions.
DNV, a global independent assurance and risk management company, is shaping the future of assurance, helping customers navigate complex transformations with confidence. It empowers customers and stakeholders with facts and reliable insights, aiding informed decision-making and thereby improving operational efficiency.
Synergi Pipeline is one of DNV’s digital tools that leverages their domain expertise,and software competencies to enable customers to optimise the performance, safe operations, and risk management of their assets.
Synergi Pipeline is a comprehensive ‘Plan-Do-Check-Act’ risk management solution for distribution, transmission and underground storage. A full solution has components that can cover the entire process as shown in the diagram below.
The powerful cloud-based enterprise solution helps bridge data silos, breaks down organisational boundaries, maximise availability, ensure fitness for service, and lead to improved security of supply.
The highly configurable risk and integrity management solution
One of the many factors that sets Synergi Pipeline apart is that it is highly configurable and flexible. Synergi Pipeline provides a single, transparent view across an enterprises’ assets (pipeline, valves, pressure regulators, etc), extending across segments (gathering, transmission, distribution, offshore, etc), and can manage both liquid and gas pipelines.
The solution integrates engineering and operating analytics, and combined with proprietary integrity and risk models, provides pipeline operators with the decision-making support they need.
Synergi Pipeline also boasts advanced data connectivity capabilities, which eliminate the need and associated costs for manual data conversions. The solution is database independent, meaning that this software can connect to any database and multiple non-database data types. In effect, it not only conforms to the customers’ needs but also improves savings over the lifetime of the pipelines through reduced IT hardware and maintenance costs.
From compliance to continuous improvement
Over the past decade, risk management has evolved from almost a pure compliance requirement to being a core decision making tool in business and integrity management processes. Organisations are striving to go beyond just ranking their lines, looking for better understanding of the true risks to distribution lines and how they can be maintained.
Beyond providing information about pipeline inspection management, operations and health, Synergi Pipeline uses a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) model to provide companies with a comprehensive understanding of the different risks across their system, both distinctly at an individual threat level as well as how they interact with each other.
PRA provides the ability for organisations to hone in on the specifics that are driving those risks that can then help create a targeted mitigation strategy. Pipeline operators can also run ‘what-if’ scenarios and compare mitigation strategies to prioritise capital spends and maximise reductions in risk.
Synergi Pipelines also helps facilitate a continuous risk improvement process by identifying gaps in data and quantifying uncertainties in the risk calculations. Further comparisons across assessments would drive efficiency by way of reduced uncertainties in the risk models.
Product line director for Synergi Pipeline at DNV Tony Alfano said that the software provides users with greater control over their assets.
“Synergi Pipeline is a highly configurable and flexible software that allows our customers to tailor it to their own systems,” said Alfano.
“We have been able to provide significant value to our clients by giving them the information they need to ensure the safety and reliability of their systems, saving them money in the long run.”
A partnership with DNV gives the user access to the software, the risk models, and risk and integrity advisory services backed by a full laboratory, computer software simulations, and full-scale testing facilities. Companies will feel confident knowing they are supported by the best software and solutions available on the market.
DNV is a trusted voice for tackling global transformations that is setting industry benchmarks and inspiring and inventing solutions. The company is driven by their purpose to safeguard life, property and the environment, echoing its commitment to innovative, intelligent risk assessment and proactive integrity solutions that don’t negatively impact the environment.
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