[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our September Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, September 15 at 11:00 AM CT we’ll be joined by Miaad Safari, Supervisor of Integrity Assessments, at Enbridge Gas Inc. who will be leading a discussion around Comparing Quantitative Risk Modeling Approaches for Transmission vs. Distribution Pipelines. As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

The utility industry is increasing its reliance on analytical models to predict the reliability and risk of its assets to improve safety performance and provide a means to more efficiently allocate resources. These models must be built with a strong consideration of the unique characteristics of each asset class such as the quantity of assets, sample size and granularity of data, and availability of mechanistic modelling methodologies. This presentation provides an overview of the Enbridge Gas Transmission and Distribution risk models and summarizes the similarities and differences in the Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) approaches.

Speaker: Miaad Safari – Supervisor of Integrity Assessments (Enbridge Gas Inc.)

Miaad Safari is an Integrity Engineer specializing in Risk and Reliability assessments. He is a strong advocate of enhancing integrity data analytics and the development of efficient and accurate risk and reliability models to gain a better understanding of the industry’s aging assets. After spending over a decade devoted to Pipeline Integrity at Enbridge Gas Inc., Miaad has developed an in-depth knowledge of integrity threat assessments, ILI technologies, fitness-for-service assessments, reliability models, and risk assessments.  

As an active member in the industry, Miaad has previously presented at the Canadian Gas Association (CGA) and International Pipeline Conference (IPC) where he shared knowledge of assessment techniques that showcase the due diligence that is required to ensure public safety. Miaad holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and Management from McMaster University and is a Professional Engineer registered in Ontario. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out earlier in the month via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, September 15th at 11:00 AM CT, please reach out to me so I can be sure you are forwarded the invite an alternate way.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next week!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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