Liquid Pipeline Field Operations

• Introduction to the Pipeline Industry (Pipeline Core)
  Introduces the pipeline industry, including pipeline products and flow paths, maps and drawings used in the industry, and basic pipeline operations.
• Liquid Pipeline General Abnormal Operating Conditions (Pipeline Core)
  Introduces the Abnormal Operating Conditions (AOCs) that can occur o a pipeline or in a pipeline facility.
• Basic Pipeline Hydraulics and Equipment
  Explains pipeline hydraulics safety, basic principles of hydraulic systems, hydraulic properties of petroleum products, pipeline design factors and basic pipeline equipment.
• Pipeline Communications
  Introduces the various channels of communications that must exist in pipeline operations, including internal communications with scheduling, operations and maintenance, and external communications with contractors, the general public, regulatory agencies and local, state and federal government.
• Product Batch and Pig Tracking
  Describes how to track pipeline product line inventories, handle scheduled pipeline shipments, identify product interface changes and launch, receive and track pigs through the pipeline and facility.
• Routine Field and Facility Operations (CT 43, 43.2 and 43.4)
  Explains how to perform visual facility checks and verify tank capacity and availability. Also provides information relating to custody transfers, setting alarm parameters, performing start-up and shut-down procedures, performing batch switches, calculating facility over-and-short and completing required operations documentation.
• Monitoring Pipeline Operations
  Explains how to monitor pipeline parameters, recognize and react to safety device alarms, purge product from the pipe, perform pipeline surveillance and monitor weather conditions.
• Field Quality Control
  Introduces field quality control procedures including activation of tank mixing devices, collect of product samples, product testing, pipeline switching, product blending operations and injection of appropriate additives.
• Field Measurement
  Introduces the techniques used in field measurement of products in the pipeline.