PASS/START-PROF Capabilities for Oil & Gas Gathering, Upstream and Midstream Pipelines

Learn how PASS/START-PROF can significantly increase your productivity, save the time and increase the accuracy while pipeline model creation, its analysis, and reports generation.
Agenda
• Quick introduction of PASS/START-PROF
• Supported codes for pipelines
• Object-oriented pipiline model creation principle
• Piping object types pipe, tees, bends, reducers, etc.
• Underground and aboveground pipeline modeling abilities
• Soil model for dry and liquified soil. Submerged pipelines. Buoyancy
• Soil model for horizontal, inclined, vertical pipelines
• Restrained and unrestrained zones automatic analysis
• Seismic wave propagation analysis
• Soil subsidence, frost heaving, landslide, seismic fault crossing
• Natural arch of collapse phenomena, horizontal directional drilling
• Ring bending calculation using nonlinear FEA
• Databases, wind, ice, snow, seismic loads
• Pipe and fittings wall thickness calculation
• Operation mode editor. Load cases
• Analysis reports: Stress in piping, Stress in insulation, Seismic stress, Flaw stress, Restraint loads, Equipment loads, Displacements, Expansion joints check, variable spring selection, constant spring selection, buckling analysis, flange leakage
• Special features

Timeline:

00:00 Welcome session
01:12 Agenda
01:56 Quick introduction of PASS/START-PROF
05:51 Supported Codes
06:21 Analysis Capabilities07:26 Dry Soil Model
12:44 Example
15:05 Dry Soil Model. Сontinuation
21:49 Bourdon Effect in PASS/START-PROF
26:55 Restrained and unrestrained zones automatic analysis
31:19 Submerged Buried Pipeline
33:38 Example
37:23 Soil Model
41:14 Soil Model. Natural arch
44:38 Soil Model. Horizontal, inclined, vertical pipelines
46:14 Example Soil Model
50:22 Modeling of Soil Subsidence
53:48 Example. Soil Subsidence, Frost Heaving, Landslide, Seismic Fault Crossing56:46 Ring bending calculation
1:00:43 Seismic wave propagation
1:04:01 Example
1:05:18 Buckling check
1:06:15 Piping Model Creation
1:10:02 Pipe and fittings wall thickness calculation
1:10:49 Operation Mode Editor 1:11:26 Reports1:12:11 Reliability
1:13:42 Our resources