Digitalization at Pipeline
Infrastructure Limited

Engineer sitting near pipes while working on a Laptop

A B O U T

Pipeline Infrastructure Limited Company

India’s first bidirectional pipeline, PIL, is owned by India Infrastructure Trust and sponsored by Brookfield Asset Management. With 48-inch diameter pipelines spread across 1480 km, they provide clean and green energy from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to East Bharuch in Gujarat in the West. In India, PIL has traversed the pipeline of five significant states: Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. PIL has ten compressor stations with a total installed power of 900+ MW. PIL has been awarded various national and international accreditations for its safety record and operational efficiency.

CHALLENGES

Challenges Faced by Pipeline Infrastructure Limited

Pipeline data management is crucial and complex. Maintaining overall pipeline integrity depends on how the pipeline data is managed and analyzed to ensure integrity and health of the pipeline network.

Data Consolidation

Every month around 15 different surveys were carried out for Cathodic Protection, ROU, Surveillance, Corrosion monitoring etc. for 10 pipeline sections. This data was collected from sites in excel & paper format and sent to the headquarters Integrity teams. Consolidating, validating and analyzing this vast amount of data to identify issues was a huge task requiring weeks of effort from multiple integrity engineers.

Inflexible Legacy software

Legacy software like ROAIMS did not have the capability to adapt to the changing business requirements, uploading ILI and other data into the softwares was cumbersome and time consuming. Performing Back to Back ILI analysis was a semi-automated process requiring months for a 1480 KM pipeline. In addition to this legacy PIMS software was expensive requiring upfront capex investment.

No Single Integrity Platform

PIL has multiple different systems for Integrity, GIS, Emergency response & ROU Management. There was a lack of a single platform which could integrate with all data sources like Scada, Drone Surveillance etc.
Managing and maintaining these systems was difficult. Keeping these different systems up to date and supporting them has huge IT overheads and costs.

OUR SOLUTION

The Ironalytics Solution to the Problem

Pipeline data management was a core problem of PIL, where they couldn’t manage vast and complex pipeline data. However, Ironalytics found a flexible and streamlined solution for pipeline data management. Ironalytics is a fully managed Pipeline Integrity Management System (PIMS) that harnesses big data analytics to enhance and optimize overall efficiency and effectiveness. Ironalytics revolutionizes PIMS with advanced big data analysis solutions by digitalizing complex systems and automating manual processes.

Core PIL problems Solved by Ironalytics:

Digitalization

Fast data analysis- With our custom made pre-configured digital forms, data can be input, validated and consolidated in real time. Our intelligent algorithms have empowered the Integrity team to analyze, gather intelligence and integrity KPIs within hours rather than weeks, significantly saving time and resources.

Unified Pipeline Platform

Our customizable PIMS platform has enabled PIL to integrate with multiple system and data sources. Our comprehensive features have enabled PIL to replace multiple existing systems and have a single pipeline integrity platform streamlining operations.

Data Management

No more cumbersome data uploads are needed as our teams upload all the data including ILI, CIPL, DCVG, ROU, Design Data, Master data etc. using our Big-data analytics capabilities. All data is ready avaliable for analysis saving teams a significant amount of time and effort.

RESULTS

Results & Benefits

Simplified data
management saving 20 man
days of effort per month.

Improved cost savings more
that $200K USD annually

Reduced reliance on third-
party vendors.

Faster and more efficient
risk assessments.

Streamlined Operations and
easy access to information.

Better data visualization and
effective decision-making

Testimonials

What Client Says

“I would like to express my satisfaction on the development of the new PIMS application by Ironalytics. The team did a very professional job in customizing the application as per our requirement including integrating the functionalities of our existing apps. Their expertise and professionalism were evident throughout the development cycle, and we have already completed two of the three Phases with them. They have been a true partner during this process, helping us with a scalable full featured SaaS app that both functions and looks great.”

Suresh Iyer

Head of Integrity

Iranol Oil Company, Iran

500 KM Gas Pipeline

Challenges

Legacy PIMS softwares were extremely expensive and needed months of effort to upload all pipeline data.
Reliance on Third-Party vendors to perform FFP, Back to Back ILI Analysis & Crack assessments.
Performing risk assessment was a struggle as all reports were in PDF and Excel formats.

Results

Our Big data solutions uploaded all the pipeline data in hours and gave the team an application that was ready to use.
Reduced reliance on third party vendors by empowering in-house engineers to perform assessments saving time and costs. Back to Back ILI assessment which took months was performed in hours using our AI models.
Our Automated threat detection and Qualitative Risk Management solution enabled teams to perform Risk assessment quickly and efficiently.

"One of the best vendor engagements I've been a part of. Ironalytics was very professional and consistently went above and beyond to ensure our requirements were met"

Alireza Makoui