Download Preliminary Agenda

As with the prior annual events, the PIX provides a unique forum for pipeline operators to openly share information and lessons learned across a broad range of topic areas, including pipeline system incidents, near misses, industry best practices, and improvements made to pipeline safety programs through practical experiences. The success of the PIX forum each year is made possible by API member companies and their commitment and willingness to proactively share information and drive continuous improvement across the industry through learnings from the experience of others. Please consider participating in the PIX and sharing your company’s experiences that will benefit other pipeline operators.

API recognizes there can be challenges to sharing information related to member company experiences or events, such as accidents or near misses, and offers several options to those volunteering to present on the method of information exchange. These methods include slides, handouts for participants, or an open conversation regarding a specific event or experience. Our goal is to encourage sharing and learning and work with pipeline operating companies to achieve that goal.  The PIX is strictly limited to employees of pipeline operators – no regulators, press, vendors, contractors, or members of the public will be allowed to participate.  This policy allows for an environment where operators can freely exchange information, learn from it, and avoid similar incidents in the future.

An initial list of topics to consider in developing the PIX agenda is listed below.

• Lessons learned from incidents and incident investigations – all areas of pipeline operation (e.g, facilities, control room)
• Personnel safety incidents and near misses
• Damage prevention, excavation safety, and addressing hazards on the ROW
• Sharing lessons learned in assessing performance of leak detection systems/programs
• Facility integrity incidents and best practices
• Asset Integrity – sharing lessons learned and best practices related to geohazard management, cracking, cycle management, corrosion, risk models, mega rule compliance
• Data Integration best practices
• Application of new technologies to pipeline safety/innovation
• Public Engagement/Public Awareness
• Practices and approaches being used to address ESG and sustainability

The list of topic areas was developed with input from members of the various API committees and work groups and is provided only for guidance – it is not meant to be restrictive, and we welcome other topic areas and ideas for information sharing.

If you are interested in presenting at the PIX, the Call for Abstracts can be found here.  Please submit abstracts by no later than August 18, 2023. Notification abstract acceptance will be sent to all submitters no later than August 25, 2023. The notification will include details and a slide deck template for developing presentations.

Liquids Pipeline Leak Detection Program – Performance Indicators Workshop
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

In addition to PIX, API is also sponsoring a separate half-day Leak Detection Program KPIs and performance metrics workshop on the afternoon of November 14 from 1:00 pm to 4:30pm, which will also be held at the Houston Westchase Hilton. The workshop is being sponsored by the API-LEPA Performance Excellence Team, which commissioned the formation of a liquids pipeline Leak Detection Subteam in late 2021 to lead the development of programs and processes that are targeting performance improvements in liquids pipeline leak detection systems and programs. The workshop will include a series of presentations by industry Subject Matter Experts that have significant experience in developing leak detection programs and applying various methods to assess the performance of individual systems and the overall leak detection program. In addition, the workshop will include open roundtable discussions on KPIs and performance metrics being currently applied by pipeline operating companies. The goal of the workshop is to establish consensus on a set of performance metrics that can be applied across the industry and allow for setting benchmarks and promoting consistency in assessing leak detection program performance.

As with the PIX, workshop is limited to only representatives of pipeline operating companies.