Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

The Current State - Part 2

By Greg Alvarado, Chief Editor at Inspectioneering. This article appears in the November/December 1999 issue of Inspectioneering Journal.

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Risk-Based Inspection

March/April 2007 Inspectioneering Journal

An earlier version of this updated article appeared in the January-February 1998 issue of the Inspectioneering Journal. It is hard to believe that nine years have passed so quickly. Fortunately the industry, as a whole, has learned much and...
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Hundreds of risk based inspection analyses have been completed by contractors and owner users worldwide, by now. Much is being learned as the various approaches gain acceptance. This editorial is only one perspective built upon the experiences of...
Risk Based Inspection - The Regulatory Acceptance Process

November/December 2007 Inspectioneering Journal

Over the past 18 years of serious RBI involvement, it has become clear to me that there are certain hurdles, that when "cleared", have paved the way to jurisdictional acceptance of RBI (and fitness for service, for that matter). This article will...
RBI - Eliminating Misconceptions and Misapplications

March/April 2004 Inspectioneering Journal

In the early days (circa 1988-1991) of introducing the petroleum refining and chemical industries in the US, to the idea that RBI implementation could be valuable many fell into the trap of focusing on how much money could be saved, to the exclusion...
You Don't Get Something for Nothing - Risk-Based Inspection

May/June 2008 Inspectioneering Journal

Do we know how to free ourselves from the current level of thinking to rise to a higher level? It will take this for us to overcome many of our current challenges in the arena of equipment reliability.

Technologies/Methodologies/Software

Here are some of my observations based on numerous discussions with owner users and involvement in over 30 projects. This learning is from plant operators who have taken the RBI "plunge", after they have had time to think about their decisions and direction, using various software products. Some owner user answers are included and will be identified as such. In addition to the questions in part 1, I included a listing of some generic families of RBI tools or approaches.

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About the Authors

Greg Alvarado, Chief Editor at Inspectioneering

Greg Alvarado is the Founder and Chief Editor of Inspectioneering Journal as well as a consultant. He possesses over 40 years of experience in the chemical, petrochemical, and oil and gas industries. His roles have included positions as an owner-operator, consultant, Chief Chemist, and Corrosion/Materials/NDE applications engineer. He has specialized in risk-based inspection consulting... Read more »

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