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Quantification of Measurement Errors in the Lengths of Metal-Loss Corrosion Defects Reported by Inline Inspection Tools


 This paper proposes a framework to quantify the measurement error associated with lengths of corrosion defects on oil and gas pipelines reported by inline inspection (ILI) tools based on a relatively large set of ILI-reported and field-measured defect data collected from different in-service pipelines in Canada. A log-logistic model is proposed to quantify the likelihood of a given ILI-reported defect being a type I defect (without clustering error) or a type II defect (with clustering error). The measurement error associated with the ILI-reported length of the defect is quantified as the average of those associated with the types I and II defects, weighted by the corresponding probabilities obtained from the log-logistic model. The implications of the proposed framework for the reliability analysis of corroded pipelines given the ILI information are investigated using a realistic pipeline example.