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Energy and Pipeline Security
 
The protection of land-based pipelines against sabotage, illegal tapping, and terrorist action is a high priority worldwide, particularly in times of heightened tension. But, until recently, this protection has been difficult to achieve in an effective manner.

When a pipeline is damaged, significant revenues are lost, heavy damage is caused to the local environment and leakage is a potential future danger to the local population and the environment.
Often the damage may not become apparent to the pipeline operators for days or even weeks.

Then it may take days to accurately pinpoint the location of the damage. In those cases,
the activities for cleaning up the pollution damage are much more significant than the repairing
of the direct damage to the pipe.

OIP Sensor Systems offers the I-PASS system. I-PASS is optimized for protection of pipe lines transferring gas, oil or other essential liquids products and to secure other infrastructure installations of the energy industry.

The system is based on three main integrated elements:

  • F.O. sensor cable buried along the pipeline to detect “approach to line”
  • Leakage detection system to detect small leakages
  • Command and control system to operate the system from a single monitoring station

The concept behind this general architecture is to use passive buried sensors, not exposed to damages on the ground level, without any requirement for power lines or RF communication transceivers along the pipeline.

In the first stage, the system detects suspicious activity close to the pipe line and provides the authorities time to identify the activity and respond prior to any damage to the pipeline. At the second stage the system detects actual leakages caused by corrosion or undetected illegal activity.
The system provides the operator with required capabilities to identify location and type of the threat activity.