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An engineer will often have to recognize the type of piping system from observable
characteristics, and determine the type of piping system being designed, analyzed, or
modified.
This section will describe the types of piping systems listed above based on observable
physical characteristics. Each description will include:
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Conveys fluid between items of connected equipment within one plant unit or between
plots within one plant area.
Connected equipment includes items such as process reactors, heat exchangers, pumps,
compressors, furnaces, columns, and drums.
Small bore connections to monitor process conditions with temperature and pressure
transducers, withdraw fluid samples, or drain the piping.
Most often 600 mm (24 in.) and under in diameter, although larger diameter systems are
also used.
Figure 1 illustrates a typical plant piping system that connects several equipment items and
shows various components.
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Conveys liquid petroleum, liquid petroleum products, or liquid-gas mixtures from the
wellhead by connecting one or more of the following:
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May also include flowlines, testlines, and trunklines as defined in SAES-L-001, Basic
Criteria For Pressure Piping Systems.
Components
Contains many of the same components that are found in plant piping, but the pipe sizes
used in this type of piping usually exceed those used in plant piping. Pipe is generally
750 mm (30 in.) or larger in diameter.
The piping usually contains few flanges. Flanges and valves that are used match the
size of the pipe, and the valves have a full bore. At major equipment locations (such as
GOSPs, pump stations, and terminal or shipping facilities), the piping contains
additional flanges, primarily to facilitate maintenance.
Main cross-country piping includes check valves where prevention of flow reversal is
necessary.
Few branch connections or small bore connections are employed, except at pump
stations or similar locations where pressure control is accomplished.
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FIGURE 2
Gas Transmission and Distribution Pipelines
Conveys natural gas fluids between the gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) and the end-use
location.
GOSP's.
Gas treating facilities.
Gas compression stations.
Gas metering and regulation stations.
Gas mains.
Gas service lines to the end-use location.
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Submarine Pipelines
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The Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards, SAES-L series, and Saudi Aramco Material
System Specifications (SAMSS's) provide additional requirements that supplement the B31
Codes. SAES-L-001, Basic Criteria for Pressure Piping Systems, defines the scope and
definitions of terms that apply to the piping-related Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards.
SAES-L-001 also specifies the minimum basic requirements for pressure piping systems
within its scope.
The Codes and standards describe requirements for the materials, design, fabrication, erection,
inspection, and testing of piping systems.
This section discusses:
An overview of the Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards, SAES-L series, and Saudi
Aramco Material System Specifications.
Selecting the applicable ASME/ANSI B31 piping Code based on whether a piping
system is plant piping, or transportation piping, and whether transportation piping
transports liquid or gas.
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The piping standards are found in the SAES "L-Series", and apply to all pressure piping
systems that are included in the scope of any one of the ASME/ANSI B31 Codes. These
SAES's also apply to certain other pressure piping services that are excluded from the Code.
SAES-L-000, Piping Standard Forward and Index, provides an index that identifies the
contents of each SAES. The Saudi Aramco engineer should refer to SAES-L-000 to identify
the applicable SAES's when participating in a piping design problem.
There is no single index to just the piping SAMSS's. However, all piping system and
component-related SAMSS's begin with "01-SAMSS", "02-SAMSS", or "04-SAMSS".
Specific SAES and SAMSS requirements will be discussed throughout MEX 101 as
appropriate.
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Covers all piping within the property limits of facilities engaged in the processing or
handling of chemical, petroleum, or related products.
Excludes:
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Piping systems for internal gauge pressures at or above zero but less than
103 kPa (15 psi), provided that the fluid is nonflammable, nontoxic, and not
harmful to human tissue, and its design temperature is -29C to 186C (-20F to
366F).
Power boilers.
Tubes, tube headers, crossovers, and manifolds internal to a fired heater enclosure.
Pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors, and other fluid handling or
processing equipment.
Piping located on company property that has been set aside for pipelines that
conform to ASME/ANSI B31.4, B31.8, or B31.11, or applicable government
regulations.
Plumbing, sanitary sewers, or storm sewers.
Fire protection systems.
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Source: ASME/ANSI B31.3 - 1990. With permission from American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
FIGURE 4
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Piping transporting liquids including crude oil, condensate, natural gasoline, natural gas
liquids, liquefied petroleum gas, liquid alcohol, liquid anhydrous ammonia, and liquid
petroleum products.
Transportation piping between producers' lease facilities, tank farms, natural gas
processing plants, refineries, stations, ammonia plants, terminals, and other delivery and
receiving points.
The piping includes: pipe, flanges, bolting, gaskets, valves, relief devices, fittings, and
the pressure-containing parts of other piping components. It also includes hangers and
supports, and other equipment items necessary to prevent over stressing of the pressurecontaining parts.
Primary and associated auxiliary liquid petroleum and liquid anhydrous ammonia piping
at pipeline terminals, tank farms, pump stations, pressure-reducing stations, and
metering stations.
Liquid petroleum and liquid anhydrous ammonia piping located on property that has
been set aside for such piping within refineries, natural gasoline and gas processing
plants, ammonia plants and bulk plants.
General safety aspects of operation and maintenance of liquid petroleum and liquid
anhydrous ammonia piping.
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Auxiliary piping used for water, air, steam, lubricating oil, gas, or fuel.
Pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pumps, meters, and other such equipment including
internal piping and connections.
Piping designed for internal gauge pressures at or below 103 kPa (15 psig) regardless of
temperature, and above 103 kPa (15 psig) if design temperature is below -29C (-20F)
or above 120C (250F).
Casing, tubing, or pipe used in oil wells, wellhead assemblies, oil and gas separators,
crude oil production tanks, other producing facilities, and pipelines interconnecting
these facilities.
Piping in refineries, natural gas processing plants, ammonia plants and bulk plants.
It should be noted that SAES-L-020, Design of Transportation Piping Systems, requires that
ASME/ANSI B31.4 be used for all transportation piping systems regardless of fluid service.
Thus, SAES-L-020 extends the applicable scope of B31.4 to also cover gas and multi-phase
services.
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Source: ASME/ANSI B31.4 - 1989. With permission from American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Gas transmission and distribution systems, including gas pipelines, gas compressor
stations, gas metering and regulation stations, gas mains, and service lines up to the
outlet of the customer's meter set assembly.
Gas storage equipment of the closed-pipe type, fabricated or forged from the pipe or
fabricated from the pipe fittings, and gas storage lines.
Pipe, valves, fittings, flanges, bolting, gaskets, regulators, pressure vessels, pulsation
dampers, and relief valves.
Design and manufacture of pressure vessels covered by the ASME Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code.
Piping with metal temperatures above 232C (450F) or below -29C (-20F).
Piping in oil refineries or natural gas extraction plants; gas treatment plant piping, other
than the main gas stream piping in dehydration plants, and all other processing plants
installed as part of a gas transmission system, gas manufacturing plant, industrial plant,
or mine.
Vent piping that operates at substantially atmospheric pressure for waste gases of any
kind.
Wellhead assemblies, including control valves, flowlines between wellhead and trap or
separator, connecting piping on off-shore production platforms up to the connection to
the transportation piping system, or casing and tubing in gas or oil wells.
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Liquid petroleum, liquid slurry, carbon dioxide, or liquefied natural gas transportation
piping systems.
As previously noted, SAES-L-020 requires that ASME/ANSI B31.4 be used for transportation
piping systems that are within the nominal scope of B31.8. SAES-L-020 also requires that
B31.8 requirements that are in addition to or exceed B31.4 requirements be applied to
pipelines that are in hydrocarbon gas or multi-phase service.
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Source: ASME/ANSI B31.8 - 1989. With permission from American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Summary
Saudi Aramco piping systems include:
The Saudi Aramco engineer must know the components and functions of each type of piping
system to effectively participate in piping design problems. The applicable Codes and
standards include:
ASME/ANSI B31.3.
ASME/ANSI B31.4.
ASME/ANSI B31.8.
Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards, SAES-L Series, and applicable Saudi Aramco
Material System Specifications (SAMSS).
The steps that follow summarize an approach which may be used to determine which
ASME/ANSI Code, SAESs and SAMSSs apply to a particular situation.
1.
2.
3.
4.
When transportation piping is within plant limits, refer to Saudi Aramco Engineering
Standard SAES-L-003, Design Stress Criteria for Pressure Piping, which supplements
the requirements that are in the ASME/ANSI B31 Codes.
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5.
Tank farm
Piers.
Pump stations.
Terminals.
6.
Pump station piping shall be designed to ASME/ANSI B31.3 if the pump station is
located inside a plant (such as at Abqaiq).
7.
Piping designed and tested to ASME/ANSI B31.3 is acceptable within the scope of
either ASME/ANSI B31.4 or B31.8, provided that this is recorded in the permanent
project records.
8.
Refer to SAES-L-000, Piping Standard Forward and Index, to determine which SAES's
apply to the particular system.
9.
Refer to the SAMSS's, and determine which ones apply to piping components that are
included in the particular system. Piping component requirements are specified in
SAMSS's which begin with "01-SAMSS", "02-SAMSS", or "04-SAMSS".
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GLOSSARY
assembly
branch connection
creep rupture
design factor
flammable
flowlines
GOSP
local stress
minimum specified
yield strength
off-plot
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pipe
plant area
plant piping
plot limit
primary stresses
secondary stresses
tensile strength
testline
thermal stress
transportation piping
trunklines
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