Produced Water Pipeline Networks

The challenge is too many false alarms at the expense of capital spending for flow meters and piping modification to accommodate the incumbent leak detection system. Due to the cyclic and continuously transient nature of the pipeline, it is very challenging for the leak detection systems to have fewer false positive alarms while maintaining the capability to detect small leaks. If there are too many false alarm in a month, operators cannot attend all those alarms to verify them. Lot of those alarms will go unnoticed. If there is a real leak, it would be missed to respond promptly and mitigate the environmental damage. A leak incident would cost company to clean up in millions of dollars and also face regulatory scrutiny and fines.