Pipeline leaks can get very expensive, very quickly. Early identification of potential leaks ensures faster response and overall system integrity. Our Cloud based platform system reduces the high cost of false alarms and regulatory fines while quickly reacting to leaks and other abnormal system operations that can rapidly consume profits and endanger safety.
Engineered to provide the confidence your company needs to meet regulatory compliance and environmental requirements.
How we help detect pipeline leaks and anomalies
The system is engineered to reduce a leaks' impact due to earlier detection. Though it does not and cannot eliminate leaks; it acts as a powerful supplement to your existing leak detection methods and overall asset integrity management system.
Emerson's Zedi Pipeline applies to various pipeline configurations with the appropriate instrumentation on site (pressure, flow rate, and pump status). Applicable pipeline fluids are single-phase, non-compressible only. The fluid can be water, oil, or NGL’s, so long as they are confined to the single/liquid phase.
We work with customers to gather pipeline data (at least one month of historical data) and train their algorithm to detect small leaks and anomalies; the aim is to identify anything considered out of the normal.
Then you can monitor data through an existing SCADA system or Emerson's Zedi Access, a secure, scalable cloud-based IIoT platform for remote SCADA monitoring, control, and optimization at your site, or with the Emerson's Zedi Go App.
Regulations have changed
Pipe leak regulations as of September 2020, the United States Dept of Transportation requires leak detection systems on all hazardous pipelines installed after September 2019. In Canada, the upstream regulators in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and B.C. require leak detection on oil well effluent lines (specifically excluding saltwater and freshwater lines).
Zedi Pipeline Leak Detection can be an essential component of a high-performing asset integrity management program. It acts as a redundant system to your current internal pipeline monitoring systems.
In a recent testing trail for saltwater pipelines, our customer produced intentional pipe leaks by bringing a vacuum truck and removing liquids at different flow rates. Other anomalies identified were build-up in the flow meters, compressor problems, problems with the water level in the inlet separator, meter errors, and plant shutdowns.
You can also layer on our 24/7 Zedi Alarm Management Service to remotely monitor, control and adequately alarm pipelines, so operators can quickly receive the information required when leaks occur.
