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fashions and we're here to talk about the the Kinder Morgan pipeline facilities in Wilsonville and we have representatives from Kinder Morgan here to provide robust information about that as most of you may know subsequent to some citizen concerns about the pipeline through Wilsonville we had engaged with Kinder Morgan to talk about the pipeline and we have been pleased to have dialogue that has gone on over the past year with senior executives from that company and we have learned a lot about it we've also had representatives from the Hillsborough Water big pipe project involved in that we've had elected people at the state level as well as the local level coming to those meetings so I've lost track probably three or four major meetings that we've had and they also brought in their senior people from out of state for those meetings so it's been productive and I appreciate the the dialogue that we've had and we've talked about the concerns that our people have in our citizenry here and they've talked about how their protocols work and we've learned a lot about it so you will learn some more about that tonight but we've kind of reached a a agreement that certain things need to be done probably the most significant and I'm sure they'll tell you about it is that the shut-off valve that is north of the river will be converted to a more automatic type of a valve that can be remotely actuated instead of having to be something that a person physically on the site has to do so that's one of the major things yesterday they were involved in a major practice event which is done involving the state DEQ and they hypothecate a breach of a certain type and then they respond and they do all the different elements to that and they'll probably tell you a little bit about that I was able to go see a little bit of about that exercise yesterday and was quite impressed with the thoroughness and depth of that process also so other people can tell you a lot more details than I can about it but we are we've reached an agreement with Kinder Morgan about some of the things that need to be done the the exercise that was done yesterday is one of those things and this evenings presentation for the public is another of them and the installation of the the safety valve automatic valve is another one so they will tell you more details about that taken in total I think that we've had a very robust response and I think that out of the dialogue we've had we've reached some very positive kind of accommodation so I want to thank that Kendra Morgan for their engagement with the community on this and I don't need to keep talking but I think I will introduce our city attorney Barbara Jacobson who will kind of lead through on this she has been involved all along in kind of our negotiations also so Barbara would you please good evening and thank you for coming it's really a pleasure to be here and to see you all as the mayor explained we've been working with Kinder Morgan for Oh over a year now I think and they've been very accommodating and willing to come out and speak with us and we have reached agreement on a new automatic shutoff valve which is a big big improvement for us so we're very appreciative of that and I know there have been concerns raised by some of our citizens to the council Sean o Neill who has have been a very strong advocate for making sure that the pipeline is properly monitored and protected has raised issues with us and Kinder Morgan has worked with us and in trying to address those issues so tonight we ask Kinder Morgan since they were here they actually did there they do have a major drill every three years on the pipeline and they chose to do it in Wilsonville this year which was very nice and as the mayor said people from a DEQ and EPA as well as Kinder Morgan personnel from across the country we're at this drill in Wilsonville yesterday and I wasn't there but I understand it was a very thorough and interesting day and then the people who are visiting also got besides getting to see our beautiful city they got to experience our extraordinary weather so as they walked out of the drill they had a a true emergency to get out into but I hear they all survived and made it home but we we have some representatives who were kind enough to stay tonight to talk to you and so and I think Oh what else the pipeline has been here for a long time and we've you know unfortunate we haven't had incidents in Wilsonville our resident historian councillor charlotte lee han tells me that when she was just a teenager she watched segments of it being built so it is and and she'll be here if anybody's got questions about the history of the pipeline in Wilsonville it's always fascinating to hear Charlotte's perspective but for now we'll hear from Kinder Morgan and market nut is going to walk around with cards so if at the end of the presentation you have any questions he'll give those questions to me I'll read them in Kinder Morgan will do their best to answer any questions that you might have presentations about 30 minutes long and we have three presenters tonight who I'd like to introduce our presenters are Alan Holbrook who is Kinder Morgan's operation manager Lance caribou Ling is the area manager Shawn gray who is the operations manager and then we also have Alan 4 who is here with us tonight as well and so I'll let these gentlemen come up and tell you all about the Kinder Morgan pipeline especially as it pertains to Wilsonville Thank You barb appreciate that and thank you mayor and we have our operations team here who will walk us through a pipeline safety presentation and overview I just wanted to add a few comments I'm Alan form vice president with Kinder Morgan and when we were approached by the city actually several cities and and other organizations over a year ago I think what happened subsequent to that was a very good collaborative effort and a very technical discussion about pipeline safety enhancements to pipeline safety best available technology and what can we do specific to the Wilsonville area because one of the things that's important you know we have a system as our team will describe that is extensive in Oregon but more extensive across the country 80,000 miles of pipelines and what works in Wilsonville might not be appropriate in in Massachusetts so what we wanted to do was take a look at the particulars of the circumstance here the water facility the future plans for growth where our pipeline is located specifically where the crossing is the where the valves are located and find a solution that met the questions and concerns of the city and area and community leaders applied technology take it back to our operations team and engineers and get to a solution that I think and I think collectively we all think is is a good one so I thank the city and and everyone that was involved with this and ask questions and we had a lot of work sessions and a lot of and a lot of very technical discussions and but that's good and what I always say from from anytime we have a an issue like this we we always learn from it too and the experience we had here in the Wilsonville area is going to be helpful to us throughout our system as we're always we have a safe system we believe a system that's very important for energy supply here in the state of Oregon but we always want to do everything we can to make it safer and I think that's one of the enhancements that our team will talk about tonight so with that Andrew Holbrook is our operations manager and he'll start walking us through the presentation Thank You Alan and thank you barb and mr. mayor for the summary of our events certainly that the drill this week was very exciting we appreciate your team participating I think it helped to make it a much bigger success it's always good to have the local folks involved so so tonight as we mentioned this is about a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation will do this in kind of three stages all started off and then I'll pass it off to at the lane to talk a little bit about more specifics this is a an overview of our pipeline system here in in Oregon and as the pipeline that runs from Portland to Eugene passes through Wilsonville it's a so this will give you a little bit of an idea of you know why the pipeline is here what it carries what it's made from you know what the importance of the line is how we run it how we monitor it and keep it safe so I'm gonna push the right button here hopefully and there we go okay so why are we here so in general to raise awareness of general pipeline safety talk about our pipelines and facilities specific to the area here I'll talk about the products that we ship and any potential emergency situations and really to create a forum to exchange information I think that's kind of what we've been engaged in with the city for the last year or so on this this pipeline so water pipelines I know it's kind of a general opening a question I think we all know what they are but but in general pipelines are used and our industry to move gas and liquid products the vast majority of pipelines are located underground pipelines are made out of steel we have different kinds of lines for different purposes transmission lines versus distribution lines and where five planes come Jason to landowners landowners may use the land or what we call the right-of-way above the pipe line for most purposes however we want to make sure that people don't build structures on top of the pipe line and don't plant any deep-rooted trees in the right-of-way alright so in general who I think a little bit of a flavor for who we are but I'll go through a few more specifics about who Kinder Morgan is we are one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America's as Alan said we have about eighty four thousand miles of pipeline and 157 terminals throughout North America over 11,000 employees here in the US and in Canada we are the largest natural gas transporter and storage operator in the United States and so 70,000 miles of that 84,000 miles of pipeline are dedicated to natural gas service and we transport nearly 40% of the natural gas is consumed within the United States so it's a pretty strategic part of our business a Kinder Morgan is also the largest independent transporter of petroleum products in the United States so we move on it on a daily basis about 2.1 million barrels of product through 9,000 miles of refined products pipelines we're also the largest independent terminal operator in the United States so we have in the liquid side of our terminals business we store refined petroleum products chemicals ethanol biodiesel and other products and we have a capacity of about a hundred and fifty-one million barrels in our system we also have bulk terminals in in the Kinder Morgan that handles such materials such as coal petroleum coke steel and many other commodities and we handle about 59 million tons per year of those types of products so here's an overview of our pipeline system throughout mostly the United States a little bit into Canada the different colors sort of denote the different types of service the pipelines are in you see a lot of red pipe lines so that's the natural gas pipeline systems we saw in the earlier slide it's about seventy thousand miles of natural gas pipelines throughout the United States and then about nine thousand miles of our products pipelines that move primarily refined products such as gasoline diesel and jet fuel so the little piece that we're talking about here is I press the right button right here so starting in Portland's and running south to Eugene is where that pipeline terminates so specific to Oregon that we operate 212 miles of pipeline within the state we have the what we call the wrong wrong button the Oregon pipeline as we call it here which runs from Portland down to Eugene we also have a little bit of a natural gas by Blanco the Ruby pipeline that comes into the state very southern end of the state and we have a short pipeline about eight and a half miles it runs from Northwest Portland to PDX we supply PDX with 100% of his jet fuel so we operate also for terminals within the state of Oregon three of those are liquid terminals and one is a bulk terminal we employ 70 people currently in the state and we pay typically on an annual basis about six million dollars in state and local tax all right so the products that that we handle in our systems here in in Oregon primarily are focused on automotive fuel so we have two terminals in Northwest Portland we call the will bridge in the Linton terminal and we store about 1.9 million barrels of fuel a barrel being 42 US gallons and their major sources of gasoline and diesel fuel for motorists in the region and the other pipeline that we we mentioned is the jet fuel line that runs eight and a half miles from Northwest Portland to PDX and supplies the jet fuel for PBX as you can imagine we're reasonably highly regulated as an industry and our pipeline systems fall into the regulatory oversight of what's known as the office of pipeline safety which is a part of the US Department of Transportation in a Morgan as a company we're very committed to public safety protection of the environment and operating our facilities with within the compliance of all the rules and regulations that apply to us we're also very proud of our safety record all of our employees are I'm it's not not just me but every one of our employees are very proud of the safety record that we have when we follow numerous regulations and procedures to monitor and ensure the integrity of our pipelines so this just gives you a little bit of a list of some of the agencies that oversee different aspects of our business with the Department of Transportation themes of being the major regulator of pipelines are also regulated by the US EPA Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the Coast Guard and Homeland Security especially on our Marine based facilities the Oregon Public Utilities Commission and the DEQ and local health agencies here within the state of Oregon so how do we get our products here in the state of Oregon well there's really two main supply lines that come into the state course there's no refining capacity here within the state of Oregon so a lot of product up is refined up here in the northwest part of Washington State there are four major refineries there is a small one also in Tacoma and then that product is shipped primarily on the Olympic pipeline system the Olympic pipeline system is not a Kinder Morgan system but that does bring the product down into Seattle area and ultimately terminates in Portland and in Portland is where our pipeline picks up the product and takes it down into Eugene within the Portland area there are seven major petroleum terminals that receive product from Olympic pipeline and then the other method of receiving product is by marine vessel could be ocean-going barges or ships that bring it in through the Columbia Willamette River system to us so that's the flow of products pretty much throughout the northwest there's a little bit of a closer snapshot of where the pipeline runs through Wilsonville so you see it's a little bit a little bit like here's a little bit hard to tell but this Green Line is our pipelines that were running from north to south on the way down to Eugene I 5 being here so we're kind of on the western side of Wilsonville Willamette River being here the the valve that we were talking about that was mentioned earlier is what we call the Wilsonville block valve here it's about a quarter of a mile north of the river and the project that we're engaged in right now is to is to put a remotely operated actuator on that valve that will then be controlled by one of our two control rooms that control the pipeline that'll give us the ability to shut that line down and close that valve remotely from the control center rather than having to deploy a person physically to close that valve by hand so it's a big time-saver in case we need to shut the pipeline down it also isolates a further 7 miles of pipeline from the next valve upstream to the north which is near the u Tualatin River okay and with that we'll talk a little bit more about the specifics of our pipeline shipping system and I'll pass it over to L
yne kara bike lane is our our area manager and so his area of responsibility is really the Greater Portland area and the pipeline all the way down to the sale America thank you so Andrew mentioned Duncan Andrew mentioned the control room this is it a scenario view it's right on highway 30 mrs. Portland station incoming lines from seven petroleum terminals in Northwest Portland 114 miles 8-inch pipeline it's the primary refined petroleum supply system for Central and Southern Oregon so it serves about 1.1 million people there's no terminals south of Eugene though they're in California so it serves a vast area what we transport this pipeline transport several grades of refined petroleum products from Portland to Eugene gasoline which is another regular and premium diesel which is the Oregon spec b5 biodiesel blend as Andrew mentioned the Portland Airport pipeline we supply a hundred percent of edx's jet fuel through our eight inch pipe line that goes from Northwest Portland over the airport we operate 24/7 365 most often asked question how much we transport daily Berlin station moves and this is an average 40,000 barrels of product 40,000 barrels equals one point six eight million gallons and so that's every day that's equivalent to 186 tanker trucks each day you know running up and down the i-5 corridor a lot of Beach truck being 9,000 gallons so I planned protection I find operating conditions or continuously monitored 24 hours a day seven days a week operators and control centers monitor the pipeline's both in Portland and in Houston supervisory control or data acquisition we call it SCADA which is basically a computer system it gathers data you know pipeline pressures volumes flow rates status of our pumping equipment and our valves the rate of drag-reducing agent injection whenever an operating condition changes on the pipeline an alarm alerts the operator on duty both automated and manual valves are strategically placed along the pipeline system to enable by point to be shut down immediately and sections isolated quickly this is just an overview of our Portland control room as you can see it's a very small footprint unlike our Houston control center which is very large this monitor on the left is the entire Oregon pipeline and then the monitor on the right is the entire Airport line just an overview screen or on pipeline protection so vegetation on the right away is maintained annually by Kinder Morgan on private land Kinder Morgan works with the landowners to ensure vegetation is kept through a safe and level distance aerial patrols monitor the entire ride away a minimum of every two weeks all of those reports that come in from that are fully investigated all construction near the right away is monitored and then we also perform weekly driving patrols on the pipeline so this is a picture of the actual plane that flies this line flies out of Vancouver's evergreen airport if you you look up you're here to hear a plane and you look up it you know we fly almost weekly and it says pipeline patrol on the bottom of the wings and it flies at about 300 feet so you it's very visible we also have anti-corrosive protective coating and a cathodic protective system installed on the pipe we run electronic tools called smart bigs through the pipe at regular intervals and this is required by d-o-t what they do is this is a picture of one right here it's about ten feet long they detect anomalies in the pipe line allowing us to complete repairs or perform preventative maintenance they also provide GPS positioning of the pipe in relativity and relative to the earth so these smart pigs they're run every five years as per do tea and Femmes emza and what they do what they look for is the pipe wall thickness irregularities and that's like that's metal loss or corrosion they look for long scene features or narrow axial flaws that that's like gouges or notches or fissures the geometry of the line they look at the geometry of the line and that's to locate third-party damage know by an excavation or an excavator and also construction anomalies or deformation or dents when when these reports come in any of these anomalies are analyzed and investigated by a team of integrity experts and depending on the class of the anomaly it'll be exposed and physically examined and repaired and what I mean by that is we'll you know we may shut the pipeline down and send a crew out to dig it up based on that GPS and physically inspect it and make a repair or it's necessary smart pigs are constantly evolving and km keeps up to date with all the new tools and we also trial experimental tools to help improve the technology with that I'll pass it on to John Gray and he can talk a little bit more about pipeline protection and the one-call system you thank you okay a little bit more about pipeline protection the leading cause of pipeline accidents is third-party damage caused by digging and excavation call before you dig is the law and Kinder Morgan operates within the state one call laws we respond to one calls within 48 hours if not sooner we mark our lines and work as planned within 50 feet and workers when work is planned within 10 feet of our lines we require an inspector to be on site at all times while work is going on if you happen to notice work is being done in an area you suspect that one call has not been made please let us know so call before you dig how utility locates work I'm gonna summarize this slide there's a lot of information up there but in a nutshell if excavation is going to be conducted the contractor will identify the area of excavation mark-- it out in white they'll make a call to the one call center and open it one call ticket and when that ticket is generated they'll identify the location of the excavation and the system will identify any utilities within that area and an automatic message will be sent out any companies that have utilities in that area those companies that have 70 48 hours to respond and identify and work out their lines before any construction or activation can begin these are some examples of some locates here's a where our line has been located underneath the pavement and identified and right up here is a line marker that identifies the location of the line also and in open field areas the locations will be marked out with flags so if the one called marking is are between zero and fifty feet will mark our lines if the line is within 10 to 25 feet of the excavation will periodically monitor the construction site we'll make sure they're not getting any closer than what they said they were going to be and they're staying outside of the point 5 B if it's between 0 or 10 feet we will have an active standby on site anytime there's any construction going on within that NP so here's some more examples of wine identification you can see there's a line marker sign on the side of the street it's marked on the pavement this is a block valve used for isolation isolating various sections of the pipeline and these are aerial markers in open areas those are placed every every mile along the line and open areas it helps the pilot identify and specific sections of pipe if there is something to report there's a difficult line marker line markers have 24-hour contact information this is our Houston control center and this is the local contact information number for the Portland station this is an example of an offset marker certain situations where the line is under the pavement or a sidewalk and you can't put a marker directly on top of it there'll be an offset marker and it'll identify that it is an offset marker and we try and keep it identified on the asphalt whenever possible high-traffic areas we're continuously out there keeping the paint regression visible Oh Kinder Morgan public awareness program Kinder Morgan contacts landowners on the right-of-way every other year particularly is paid to schools fire police stations all pipeline inquiries are followed up by local personnel to ensure people get the information that they request on contact directly with contractors is vital we will always meet with contractors anytime there's any excavation going on so on our Kinder Morgan website there's a enewsletter quarterly bulletin that comes out and this is available to the public there's a public aware information safety information and this is available to the public or anybody that wants to and it's located on our Kinder Morgan website the local contact numbers if anytime you think there's an emergency first ball is always 911 if you have a pipeline related the Portland station contact number 24/7 is right here that's the number that's on the wine markers and the Houston control center number is also on the line markers and there's an additional 24 hour emergency notification line also are there any questions all right we were going to hand out I'm sorry you should know already anybody with the pipeline on their property will receive notifications that should be in the disclosure when you purchase the house so I believe they were going to pass out the note cards for questions the location the depth varies most locations it's four feet deep at least some some areas deeper you said a quarter mile north yeah okay yeah you you you normal operating station typically through this through the computer system that we refer to a skate a pretty general term within the industry any of that information that we collect that you know pressure pressure on temperature sensors flow rates all sorts of things if we get something that is out of a normal operating condition for the pipeline we have an upper and lower control them and identified in that computer system the operator on duty gets an immediate alarm both of visible and an audible alarm and they take action based on that if we if we cannot explain immediately what's going on we go through a shutdown of a pipeline until we find out why we have an anomaly in the operating condition you yeah we have to shut the pump down you're right we should have to pump down first cuz you wanna you want to take the pressure off the line before you start closing all the valves and so we have the pump station in Portland is the start of the line and so we have two two large pumps there the push product basically over for spark the hill at Forest Park and then it makes its way down south we have a booster station about the midpoint of the pipeline just south of Salem with another two pumps of them push it the rest of the way about 54 miles into our Eugene terminal but we want to make sure that we're shutting down those pumps prior to starting to close the valves in a sinister sea the line is 8-inch yeah all the way from Portland to Eugene it's an 8 inch long it varies under the river it's it's a half inch in other locations it's about a quarter inch yeah yeah but where you go under rivers or more sensitive locations that typically we use double wall or double thickness pipe you oh where does the thickness change it's gonna be up beyond the bank on either side in the kissing case of the Willamette River here I didn't bring an alignment sheet what we call an alignment sheet with all the engineering details with us tonight but it typically is on either side of the bank before that it must change us and we go to the thicker wall pipe onto the river starting pressure coming out of the main pumps at Portland station is close to about 1,400 psi now by the time you get you know bet and that's required to get it up over that hill so we're going from almost zero to 1,100 feet in elevation within a mile to get it up but by the time you're coming down to this this length and the line we're probably 400 pounds thank you yeah yeah and that's why yeah and that's why we have to have a booster station and sail them you notice you're starting through friction loss in the pipe you're starting to lose pressure unload and then we boosted the rest of the way and we did you did make a mention of what we call drag reducing agent and that's that's something that's come about probably in the last 20 years and that's helped to really reduce the amount of pressure in some cases you put on the line or how many pumps you run it's it's a chemical I'm exactly sure what's it what's in all of it it's but it it makes the the product a lot more slippery and it coats the inside of the wall of the pipeline and it makes it flow a lot easier so you don't have as much friction law so you run the pumps typically we can run pumps at lower speed on certain lines we can run a little bit lower pressure and get the same flow rate you I was installed in 1962 so with the system in Portland was built so there's what we call an inbound system in Portland so that connects the seven petroleum terminals in Portland - Portland pump station they get there and then we pump there and then the line terminates in Eugene and the terminal in Eugene was built 1962 so it's it's it's younger than me very likely yes you well we have we do an integrity review of all of our pipelines on an annual basis and that we've put in a lot of different information into that integrity model and that's reviewed we have a whole integrity group in our Houston office and we use contractors so that's all they do so we review that information we look at changes in seismic criteria we look at changes in population densities in certain areas and that gets modeled now I you know am I gonna tell you that we everybody knows exactly what's gonna happen you know in a major earthquake but pipelines typically do very well in earthquakes because steel is very flexible over long distances that's that's a hard question to answer it really depends on how the pipeline is maintained and that depends a lot on how you're controlling the corrosion rate and how you inspect it with new corrosion technologies and cathodic protection and and additives that go into the pipeline and the smart pig technology that we use to run through the line there really is no defined end life to the pipe line it's related and and on you know the thickness of the pipe and any anomalies that are detected and so the beauty of the smart pigs are you know we can detect anomalies that you know much smaller than we've ever been able to you know and with the GPS location the equipment we know exactly where they are so we get an anomaly it shows up in the data we go out and we make will excavate that section and will confirm you know what that data from the smart thing tells us and at that point we you know we visually decide and you know looking at the a pipe what sort of repair needs to be made but there's really no defined end life to to a pipe line it's well maintained you that's not my area of expertise I'm an Operations person you know as far as you know construction techniques and what heavy that would be an integrity and an engineering design question we can certainly take your question and and and get back to you on that you yeah and that's that's a great question the pipeline you typically when it goes under a river it's either board under or it's put in with with a cut and fill method and it's typically pretty deep especially under a navigable river yeah in a case of our pipeline going under the Willamette it's gonna be 8 to 12 feet if not a little bit more in some areas below the bed of the river so it's pretty deep so when you get a lot of yeah you well unless that's a big concern when you do have a lot of high water conditions and you know unusual flow of 96 being a great example that was my first year living up there in the northwest so my wife almost went back home but we we do take that very seriously and we have our what we call line writers and writer protection personnel that are constantly out writing the line and monitoring line they go out you know during and after those events and they really do focus on River Crossing creeks like the victims swollen and you get unusual erosion there we're looking for any areas where the pike may be exposed where it shouldn't be exposed so that's something that we do we keep we keep a database where we track all that information and we have something that's exposed where it hasn't been before then we have an integrity and repair program to take care of that yeah and there may be some cases where we do ship pipeline do
n because it's crossing a river that is just at some unknown blood stage it's never seen before so Andrew we have some good rule-followers here so I have some card questions on cards and everybody else thank you for your questions that was great but I'll ask these questions on the cards so that they don't get overlooked how often are repairs needed to the pipeline and what tends to be the primary issue yeah I think you've touched on that a little well the two things that have probably get the most attention to are corrosion and if we have erosion issue that typically is an exposed area the pipeline that wasn't exposed before is something or from from somebody striking the line not following the state one all you know requirements and doing excavation and hitting the line so that that's our biggest concern this is a detailed question in addition to the installation of the remote activation valve installed upstream of the water intakes what has been done to reinforce the integrity of the pipeline in the event of a cascade fault event and then notice I asked this question as the pipeline was constructed before seismic potential was known and I think that was touched on a little bit as well this is a you know it's a question that I get a lot about what happens in the Cascadia subduction zone event I wish I had a great answer for that I don't think anybody in this room has an answer for what happens to anything in the region you know where there's a lot of models out there to say what happens in a 9.0 event models are great but sometimes reality doesn't always match what the model tells us you know so I it's one of those unanswerable questions to be quite honest with you all I can tell you is based on earthquakes that have happened around the world pipelines typically do fare very well because of their flexibility but you know I I'm not in a position with the data that we have and what we know to speculate on a 9.0 earthquake at this point on how that would that would impact you know I think personally I think if if I crawl out from under the rubble and I'm still alive after that I'll be pretty happy I appreciate the work that Kinder Morgan and the City of Wilsonville have done with respect to the potential for an event evolving the river what other assessments and upgrades have been done on the pipeline pipeline throughout the entire line PDX to Eugene given its age well some of the biggest upgrades really have to do with cathodic protection or corrosion protection again that's kind of one of the biggest issues that affects the longevity and the safety of a pipeline and and the science behind I thought it protects has changed so much in the last 10 to 20 years that's been a huge huge development so putting in sacrificial anodes cathodic protection systems knowing the science of what's impacting the pipeline stray currents there's a lot of a lot of new technology out there the text rate aren't that impact the pipeline in certain areas so that's really the big one of the biggest areas also the smart pig technology is really critical to safe operation the pipeline and identifying any anomalies in the pipe so we can correct those conditions before they become a an incident how does a shutdown valve shut down valve work in the event of a major power failure and this is a two-part question and the second part is what criteria trick triggers the need to shut down the system and what is the estimated Arden okay so what you know how much would leak before you would know it and notice shut down so it's a there's a lot of course of that question a paraphilia well these are all there they're all controlled by by power from from the power grid so you know if we do have power failure then everything pretty much goes offline at that point and that goes for our pumping system too so if we lose power in the air we lose pumping pressure to Scylla line and it shuts down at that point how do we detect a leak against detected you know by an anomaly in the skated data typically and that system is really very sensitive and and Elaine you probably I think have a good example of we had an issue about two years ago where a terminal that was delivering product in to us from Portland the operator of the terminal made a change in which tank they were they were delivering product to him we saw a pressure variation of four pounds over I think eight seconds that was detected by the system we didn't know why that anomaly had occurred so we shut the entire pipeline down based on that you you well again that depends you know if there were a breach the pipeline for whatever reason an excavator hits it or whatever the case may be it depends where it is depends where in the line you are obviously the pressure varies you know for the closer to the pumps you are the higher the pressure is depends of what elevation the the brake may occur obviously if you're down at the bottom of the hill you know you have more stuff coming down from the top of the hill and how close you are to one of the valves you know it can vary we're required by federal law under D ot Femmes uh to provide what they call a worst-case number on the pipeline now when you do worst-case calculations for an agency it's not always based on a reality and I'll tell you the criteria that the d-o-t requires for a pipeline release it is a break occurs a complete break occurs of the pipeline pipeline is completely severed for through whatever reason we don't shut down that pipeline for fifteen minutes so we just keep the pumps running for fifteen minutes no matter what the data tells us and it's just just you know being released out of the pipeline and then we shut the line down so you have that amount of volume that comes out of life and then you have whatever is left that will drain down due to gravity so it depends on the location you know different locations it could be a couple hundred barrels to you know in this particular area or worst case number would be about a little over a thousand barrels Canyon this is a question having to do with the drill you just did can you discuss key learning and action items that would that have resulted from this most recent drill well we do we do drills on a regular basis you know we do we do a what we call a worst case drills required by different agencies on a three-year cycle we also do a smaller drill on an annual basis and then we do actual equipment deployments on an annual basis at our facilities for this particular event it was it was very similar to some of the drills we've done in the past but with with a couple of major differences one of the differences being the involvement the city and the Willamette water supply folks and we're really looking for their involvement because of the concern over the water intake which is about 2,100 feet down river from where pipeline process and so you know the learning event was you know how do we how do we quickly communicate with them if we were this to see an anomaly and have a suspected release how quickly they shut down the intake what would happen if anything were to get into the intake how we would manage that so that was really one of our big learning events with this drill typically in every drill in this particular drill we had representatives from as I mentioned earlier I think US EPA US Coast Guard we had Oregon vtq we had the Oregon Department of Health we had Walton Valley Fire and Rescue we had the city of Wilsonville and William water supply folks and and he might not have captured everybody but both yet but they're very well attended by agencies and we had about 120 people at the drill all sorts of different disciplines so they are designed to number one test our ability to respond to an event as a unified group and when you when you start these drills we follow a system that's followed throughout the United States they'll be incident command system so for any of our you know law enforcement folks they understand that it's followed by the fire department homeland security and so in that early stages we form what's called the unified command and so that is in the Morgan or whoever the the responsible party is there'll be a federal representative typically a or Coast Guard state representative so you hear in Oregon and a local representative and you had your local rep in the city of Wilsonville and we form a unified man and the key term there is unified and so everybody in that group is part of the decision-making process and they all have their groups that work within different teams in this structure that helps to bring information in and help to make that decision as to what the objectives are to you know cleaning up that that event so I think it was very successful I mean I think it was one of the one of the best drills we've had in this area and I think that the city folks I think felt that it was very very helpful for them to that's all the questions left but I think we can go back to the audience now and and hear from people who still boy concerned with the ball that you know primarily you know the two products that we carry primarily gasoline and these lumber pipelines of ghastliness of flammable product bezel is combustible so you know with the first concern with any sort of potential release or real releases is the safety of people you know whether it's people that live near the pipeline emergency responders are gonna be probably the first on-scene our own person element people like them to clean it up so we want to make sure that we we isolate that area we use a lot of tools we use what's called V and I seen you up the wall in valley firing rescue there so we use in this lee what's called the Emergency Response guidebook it's something that's utilized by by responders and that tells you you're not sure what the product is you open the book by an okay product diesel fuel here's how far away we need to keep everybody initially how many feet so many hundreds of feet until we can do monitoring and determine that it's safe to get closer to the area so it's very controlled at that point but you know so it's a combination of those things you know and we really you know the last thing you want to do is to have anything ignite and have a have a fire and so if there's any any sort of a release we really want to shut everything down in the area and people the way let's say closer you you well it it does two things number one it makes it a little bit easier to get to because you've got an open area where it runs through the right-of-way but anywhere you have high voltage then it does complicate things a little bit so just getting close to the air if you needed to bring heavy equipment in to deal with it you've got power line concerns so you've got safety concerns there and really you know where your operating a pipeline close to a power line that's where a lot of your product protection systems really have to be top-notch because you don't want any straight current that comes up those high voltage lines of things and then find its way into the steel of your pipe lining create accelerated corrosion and so it does complicate things but that's where our experts in detection feminists protect the line you yeah you you you you you you Oh you it's it's it's pretty deep in those areas as we mentioned you know we do go through a lot of steep terrain yell probably the most challenging is the very beginning of our pipeline where we go from almost zero to 1,100 feet up the west side of Forest Park there yeah yeah yeah yeah so but but but again that's that's you know something that we if there were to be an event we would be out there you know looking for especially in sensitive areas where there are a lot of steep slopes where there are rivers you know river currents that can change you know we're looking for any exposures the create problem and there's been a question over here for while and I'm sorry I didn't get to you that's that's a great technical question and I'll hand that over door well yeah and some pipelines we do have we do run all three products but this one is only gas and diesel are jet and our jet pipeline in Portland is dedicated it's only jet a but basically you just have a you have a section you have an interface so you cut out in the Eugene which is transmitted which then gets returned back to the refinery or or somebody that can use it it gets sold yes yes well we're missing well by gas I mean gasoline so we're only yeah we're only dealing with liquids but we do get an interface and so in the event of emergency you could encounter one or the other or both the both is very unlikely but we do have an interface you know typically it's a you know a couple hundred barrels yeah you cut it out into a tank into a specified tank in Eugene and then it gets either it gets trucked back to a refinery or some end-users they can use that type of product you you we are our SCADA system doesn't touch the outside world you know our business network that we you know email all that stuff none of that stuff it none of those two networks never touched I'm so it's completely isolated from the outside world you alright anymore nice technical questions like that those are eat yeah you you yeah you we yeah well and that's that's a great question because I think you know if it wasn't something that was specific to just our pipeline if it was something that was more regional or in nature we we would like to certainly like to be invited into and we would probably we were probably in the incident command structure at that point we would probably tuck in as a technical specialist or part of the Operations Group and we certainly wouldn't be part of your unified command structure at that point if it wasn't directly related to pipeline but if it had a potential to to affect us then we would we would like to be invited into that so yeah you well if we have a seismic event hopefully we can get to all these places you know hopefully all of us can get to the various places in a 9.0 earthquake we have we have enough people here in Oregon for 114 mile pipeline we have about 40 employees here so that are you know live really along the right away you know we're all we're all within you know a half an hour of pipeline so we did certainly assuming the roads and bridges and all those other things are still operable and passable we could certainly yes that's in that and again that's why that's why I hesitate to speculate on what happens after 9.0 earthquake that's thought of us no really but but you know we if we could get there we certainly participate as much as we good yeah well and we've heard that yeah we heard a lot about that during the drill yesterday so yeah thanks for reminding me one more question in the back you you yeah a lot of elements to your comment yeah and I'll let Alan address that are you familiar with organ solutions yeah so we met Andrew and I with Carmen for I remember her last name because she shares my last name but she used to work for the governor and she is now part of and I'm not sure what affiliation that is who Portland State thank you very much Portland State so we were interviewed as part of a report that they issued on seismic events and infrastructure and that was recently issued I don't know maybe a few months ago and we've got to copy that if you haven't seen it and so I think that was an effort to start a dialogue about the connectivity between the various pieces and we're doing that in other states in California we're part of a discussion there so as far as representative working with you or I'm not sure what state agency specifically would have yeah We certainly have work with them Henry came rollin we've actually had a dialogue Fianna years there there a piece of you know directly you know day-to-day operations really go through and Grill relevant really build Oregon's polity and spills group as him Portland man is bad and that Bernie best managed by gentleman by the name of Mike you you you we don't and the reason why is because if we had if we had generations we could run the pumps at our facility there are seven facilities that have to feed that location and they don't have enough capacity to provide that power to run all their equipment and and really under under current operating conditions and within the guidance of VOT Femme
we really don't want to run a pipeline without everything operating all the telemetry all the pressure sensors everything else so you know if you've got power down we really really don't want to be running a line without everything all the safety features in place so just to add to that we do have we do have backup power in order to you know the pumps may go down but we can still see what's going on on the pipeline for quite a while we have backup power to monitor the pipeline after the pumps go down the power loss you right if you have a major seismic event you lose power we're gonna be down with everybody else and we won't be bump and no but it we can see the all the pressures in and all the blows and you can see the status of everything else where that does have power you'll see the status what it what it allows you do to do is when the bumps go down then you can monitor the pipeline going down doesn't you know it doesn't shut down instantly so you monitor it down and then once it's down about everything off you wait for the powder the stuff at the station you're doing through hardware at Portland station everything down the line you're doing you you so that so we have two modes of communication thinking back each other up so cellular or satellite yeah the communications are as Blaine said we can so we can see those you know those transmitters remotely we just don't have enough you know you lose power to be able to operate big pieces of equipment on some bells you yeah the tanks yeah you yeah oh it's cut yeah I mean it's it's a complete system you know and you can't have a pipeline without a tank or pump so you know you have to have the whole system needs to be operable well some of it comes in by ship and some of it comes down Olympic pipeline so you know in a big earthquake game they'll be shut down - very likely Queen yeah well yeah and we've done we've done a lot of drills within I'm not just within our industry but but the electrical power distribution industry and you know Portland Emergency Management the state's Emergency Management FEMA US Department of Energy we've had a lot of drills in the northwest in the last ten years and you know it's again there's a lot of modeling and but nobody knows ultimately how it's gonna turn out when if that event does happen in our lifetimes but it's gonna take a while to get things backed up yes you have to have all the components that work yeah okay well thanks again everybody for for coming hopefully you learned a little bit more about about our pipeline and about our company and
