2000 - QGPC – Gas Distribution System, Qatar
Summary
Qatar Gas Petroleum Corporation (QGPC) operates a large-scale gas distribution network, supplying natural gas across Qatar and beyond. The project involved optimizing pipeline reliability and ensuring uninterrupted supply to industrial and domestic users.
Challanges
Ensuring high availability and integrity of the gas distribution network while minimizing downtime due to pipeline failures, corrosion, and pressure fluctuations.
Solution
Conducted RAM analysis to optimize pipeline network reliability, ensuring redundancy in key transmission routes.
Applied risk-based inspection (RBI) and corrosion risk assessment (CRA) to mitigate pipeline degradation risks.
Developed failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) for key assets such as compressors, valves, and pressure reduction stations.
Recommended preventive maintenance strategies, ensuring that critical assets had defined inspection and replacement schedules to reduce unplanned outages.
