- Aboveground crossing
- Accident
- Aeration tank
- Aggressive (corrosive) water
- Air cooler
- Arctic pipelines
- Associated petroleum gas
- Back-stripping analysis
- Barbotage
- Barrage
- Barrel
- Bio-indication
- Bottomhole zone
- Box-and-pin joint (tool joint)
- Carbon black
- Casing string
- Catagenesis of organic substance
- Cavernosity
- Clogging
- Column equipment
- Comprehensive gas treatment unit
- Compressed natural gas filling stations
- Compressing
- Compressor station
- Condensate recovery factor
- Connector
- Core sample
- Correlation
- Corrosion
- Cratering
- Directional drilling
- Distillation-based separation of multi-component fluids
- Diversification
- Drilling
- Drilling (penetration) rate
- Drilling rig
- Dry gas
- Expander
- Extreme anhydrous depression
- Failure in gas industry
- Field development techniques
- Fishing tool
- Flammability limit
- Flare unit
- Fluid
- Fluid dynamics
- Flushing out of well
- Fore deep
- Formation
- Formation pressure
- Formation testing
- Fossil (stratum, reservoir, formation) water
- Free (non-associated) gas
- Free-piston pumping
- Fuel equivalent
- Gas absorption
- Gas adsorption
- Gas cap
- Gas condensate fields
- Gas consumption rate
- Gas deposit water cut
- Gas desorption
- Gas disposition terminal
- Gas distribution network
- Gas distribution plant (GDP)
- Gas engines
- Gas hydrates
- Gas hydrates self-conservation
- Gas interchangeability
- Gas jet ejector
- Gas linepipe
- Gas macrojamming
- Gas processing plant
- Gas separation
- Gas stripping
- Gas supply to consumers
- Gas throttling
- Gas tongue
- Gas transmission system
- Gas trunkline
- Gas-water contact (GWC)
- Gasholder
- Geological exploration risk
- Geological formation
- Geological prospecting
- Gravity exploration
- Greenhouse gases
- Helium
- Horizon
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Hydrocarbons
- Hydrogen index (pH)
- Hydrogenation
- Injection capacity of a well
- Kharasaveyskoye field
- Kovykta field
- Lateral coning
- Lift string
- Line pipe operation center
- Liquefied natural gas
- Lithology
- Logging
- Long-distance gas transmission
- Looping
- Low-temperature separation of gas
- Magnetic prospecting
- Main gas generation phase (MGGP)
- Main oil generation phase (MOGP)
- Medvezhye field
- Membrane technology
- Methane
- Methanol
- Mobile CNG station
- Mofettes
- Natural gas dew point
- Natural gas production
- Natural gas purification
- Natural gas vehicles (NGV)
- Natural pressure gas lift operation
- Natural reservoir
- Octane rating
- Odorant
- Offshore fields exploration
- Oil and gas formation
- Oil and gas reservoir
- Oil rim
- Oil-water contact (OWC)
- Oil/gas blowout
- Orenburg helium refinery
- Packer
- Pad distribution
- Passivization
- Phase
- Phase transitions of hydrocarbon gases
- Pipelaying vessel
- Pipeline accessories (valves and fittings)
- Pipeline route
- Pipeline watercourse
- Pipelines ballasting
- Plugging material (backfill)
- Preventer (blow-out equipment, BOE)
- Producing (pay) horizon
- Prospective resources
- Raw gas
- Reamer
- Regasification
- Repression funnel
- Reserves
- Reserves-to-Production Ratio (RPR)
- Reservoir depression
- Reservoir energy
- Reservoir gas of condensate accumulations
- Reservoir impermeable seal
- Reservoir temperature
- Retrograde phenomena
- Riser string
- Rock gas saturation
- Satellite soils monitoring
- Secondary (enhanced) recovery methods
- Seismic exploration
- Skin-effect
- Sorption
- Spot trading
- Stabilized condensate
- Standard conditions
- Stray currents
- Subsurface use licensing
- Swivel
- Synthesis gas
- Take-or-pay
- Tubing string
- Unified Gas Supply System
- Unstabilized condensate
- Viscosity
- Well
- Well cementing
- Well deviation
- Well recompletion
- Well stock
- Well suspension
- Wellhead pressure
- Western Siberia oil and gas bearing province
- Working gas
- Zapolyarnoye field
Failure in gas industry is an abnormal operation of a technical facility as a result of improper change of its parameters or settings under the influence of physicochemical, external mechanical, climatic or other factors. Technical operation failure brings a facility into a state of breakdown, preserving (in some cases) its working capacity, unlike an accident. Various subsystems of a pipeline as a technical facility influence its working capacity to various degrees. Abnormal operation of a linepipe occurs as a result of pipes or welded connections failure. Low quality of trench or gravel construction operations on the first stage of operation is one of the main reasons for pipeline failure. Moreover, this type of work influences the welding connections reliability to a high degree (failure possibility is 42 per cent for pipe metal and 64 per cent for welding connections), though by the fifth year of operation these factors practically don’t have any influence anymore.
The main reasons for offshore pipeline failures are as follows:
- corrosion – 50 per cent;
- mechanical damage as a result of external effects – 20 per cent;
- damages by storms and landslides – 12 per cent;
- other reasons – 18 per cent.