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A program that survives a regulator reading it.

Leak detection programs fail in two directions. Tune for sensitivity and the control room drowns in false alarms. Tune for quiet and the program cannot defend its own number. Both failures come from the same gap.

For Integrity Manager, VP Midstream

Objective 02 on the WorkSync Services list

The objective
Stand up leak detection or integrity management
Who owns it
Integrity Manager, VP Midstream
The first yes
A readiness read on one system, against the rule it is judged by.
How it starts
A 2 to 4 week assessment. Fixed fee, defined scope.

Who this is for

Stand up leak detection or integrity management

Without a calibrated hydraulic model of the line, nobody can say what the system is actually capable of detecting, or which segment deserves the next dollar of capital. So integrity becomes a binder, a consultant and a deadline.

What we hear

  • We need a leak detection program that will survive a regulator reading it.
  • Integrity is a binder, a consultant and a deadline.

What sets it off

A regulatory deadline, a new rule, an audit finding, a release, or an acquisition that brought pipe with it.

It is rarely the only objective on the owner’s year, which is why the assessment prices one asset group rather than the estate.

What we do

Discover, Align, Capture.

The same three moves on every objective. What changes is what gets discovered, what gets aligned and what gets captured.
  1. Discover

    Read it as it runs

    What is measured now, what the rule actually requires, and the gap between them.
  2. Align

    Decide once, together

    The program written, and the detection designed around the instrumentation you have, not the instrumentation a vendor would sell you.
  3. Capture

    Keep it honest

    The evidence trail the regulator asks for, produced by running the system rather than by an annual scramble.

We are not here to replace your stack. Most of what we have delivered runs on systems you already own. We add software only where it improves the operating model.

What you get

Everything here is yours to keep and yours to run.

Each line carries its basis, which is how you can tell what we have delivered from what would be a first.
What you keep
Objective 02
#Deliverable
01
API RP 1149 leak detection performance analysisFOUNDER EXPERIENCE
02
Leak detection program design to API RP 1175FOUNDER EXPERIENCE
03
SPCC planFOUNDER EXPERIENCE
04
Integrity management program frameworkFOUNDER EXPERIENCE
05
Batch trackingFOUNDER EXPERIENCE
06
Leak detection risk ranking and capital planFOUNDER EXPERIENCE

Every claim here carries a basis

DELIVERED
We built it for a client and handed it over.
FOUNDER EXPERIENCE
A founder led it inside an operator, in an operator role.
RUNS TODAY
Live in our software.
WITH YOUR TEAM
We have the components and the people, this exact thing would be a first, and we say so.

Emissions leak surveys are a separate, delivered capability: our software schedules each survey against the federal rule that requires it. Tightening sensitivity alone is easy. Holding false alarms down while you do it takes engineering.

Codes and scope

Written against the rule you are judged by.

Scoped to your system: API RP 1130 and 1175 under 49 CFR 195.444 on liquids; on gas, 192.706 leakage surveys and the PHMSA leak detection and repair rulemaking as it stands when your program is written. Integrity to 49 CFR 195.452 for liquids segments that could affect a high consequence area, 192 subpart O for gas transmission, 192.9 for regulated gathering. SPCC is EPA 40 CFR 112 and belongs to the facility side. Leak detection is a monitoring and alarm function, not a safety instrumented function.

What is on the record

Founder experience. Three pipeline operators, and Maverick Natural Resources

On a crude oil pipeline, detection sensitivity driven below 0.5% of flow within 24 hours. At a midstream pipeline operator, an API RP 1175 program run across control center, integrity, hydraulics and SCADA on a risk model weighing measured performance and management practices: $32MM of capital redirected, $15MM of low value projects cancelled. At a third pipeline operator, the leak detection strategy and the measurement manual. For Maverick Natural Resources, integrity and leak detection response on a common risk basis.

Founder experience: work led by a WorkSync founder in prior operator roles

Where we fit

And where we do not, said before you ask.

A fit

A system with instrumentation and a rule it is judged against.

Not yet

A stamped engineering deliverable due now. That goes through a licensed partner, and we say so in the room.