Introduction to Pipe Exposure Inspections

Pipe Exposure Inspections can be used to document inspections of buried pipes that have become exposed.

Properly inspecting exposed pipes and assessing corrosion or damage is an industry best practice and regulatory requirement for many gas utilities and hazardous liquid pipeline operators. In the United States, the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) regulation section § 192.459 requires examination of buried pipelines when exposed.​ Digitally capturing inspection information accelerates the ability to take any necessary action, reduces the potential for making mistakes during the inspection process, and makes it easier to demonstrate regulatory compliance.

The Pipe Exposure Inspections solution delivers a set of capabilities that help gas utilities or pipeline operators perform exposed pipe inspections that play an important part in the maintenance of a safe and reliable natural gas or hazardous liquid pipeline system.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Pipe Exposure Inspections requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Enterprise
  • ArcGIS Field Maps

Information products

Pipe Exposure Inspections includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type

Pipe Exposure Inspections

An ArcGIS Field Maps map used by field staff to perform inspections

Mobile Worker

Pipe Exposure Inspections Dashboard

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by office staff to monitor inspections

Viewer

Pipe Exposure Inspections Viewer

An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by office staff to view inspections in a map-centric setting

Viewer

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
1.0
  • First release of Pipe Exposure Inspections