RiskFrame^® HCA

Audit Proven Gas HCA Impact Analysis

RiskFrame^® HCA models the potential impacts of a gas pipeline release. To model the potential impacts of a liquids pipeline, see Liquids HCA Analysis.

Audit-proven, RiskFrame HCA offers an integrated data management and analysis environment for class location and High Consequence Area (HCA) analysis. Edit structure data describing the type and location of buildings near the pipeline+. Analyses are performed through a project manager that allows you to control the type of analysis, the options for calculations and the pipelines to be analyzed. Results are archived and displayed in summary form through to the detailed step by step results in tables integrated with an interactive map. Compare individual analyses with the corporate datasets and publish changes as required.

Audit Proven

RiskFrame HCA provides a complete HCA and class location analysis environment dedicated to directly supporting integrity management programs. These analyses and results have been used and proven in regulatory audits.

Extensive Structure Data Management

A single structures dataset supports both class location and HCA analyses reducing the overhead of managing multiple datasets. Both point structures and area-based structures can be recorded, and intermixed within the analysis. Edit structure datasets with your organization’s aerial photography or a street map dataset, including using addresses to locate structures. Drop-down menus in data editing ensure data uniformity. And built-in data editing workflows make structure editing easy for those without in-depth computer skills.

Project-based Analysis and Archiving

The Project Manager within RiskFrame HCA allows you to set up and configure analyses including choosing the pipelines to be included in the analysis and the options for each type of HCA and class analysis. Project analyses are archived in the database and backed up for later access and review.

Configurable Algorithms

Our large client-base over an extensive period of time has uncovered a wide range of approaches to HCA and class location analysis. RiskFrame HCA gives you the ability to configure the algorithms with the way your organization has always defined classes and HCAs, and evolve those methods using new options.

Change Comparison

Compare any analysis to another analysis or to your company’s proposed or official HCAs and class locations. An interactive map allows you to identify the reasons for change and see the extent of differences. From the comparison, you can propose segments for publishing to your official result set.

Finest-level Analysis and Multi-Level Reporting

Analyses take place on the finest level of detail, recording the impact of every structure on the results. Results are then summarized to aggregate segments that interact with the map to allow for each review. You can zoom in to individual HCA or class segments and identify the structures to investigate the reasons behind a result. Drill down further to identify the reason for an instance of an HCA or class detection.