ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 //EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>PIRAMID - Pipeline Risk Analysis for Maintenance and Inspection Decisions</title> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> <META NAME="PhotoImpact Document" CONTENT="E:\CFER Websites\layout_5.ufo"> </HEAD> <BODY LEFTMARGIN="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" TOPMARGIN="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0" width="800"> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2"><!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="Central/header.htm" TAG="BODY" startspan --> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><map name="FPMap1"> <area href="Home.htm" shape="rect" coords="33, 8, 237, 47" target="_top"> <area href="http://www.cfertech.com" shape="rect" coords="585, 2, 720, 16" target="_top"> <area href="Contact.htm" shape="rect" coords="737, 5, 795, 16" target="_top"></map><img border="0" src="images/layout_5_0.jpg" usemap="#FPMap1" width="800" height="68"></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><IMG SRC="images/layout_6_1.jpg" width="800" height="53"></td> </tr> </table> <!--webbot bot="Include" endspan i-checksum="17687" --> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top" align="left" width="192"> <p style="margin-left: 12; margin-right: 12; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 6"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><a href="About_frames.htm" target="_top"><font color="#262DA1">Program Description</font></a></b></font> <p style="margin-left: 12; margin-right: 12; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><a href="Demo.htm" target="_top"><font color="#262DA1">View Demo</font></a></b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 12; margin-right: 12; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><a href="Purchase.htm" target="_top"><font color="#262DA1">Purchase Information</font></a></b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 12; margin-right: 12; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><a href="Consulting.htm" target="_top"><font color="#262DA1">Consulting</font></a></b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 12; margin-right: 12; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><a href="Contact.htm" target="_top"><font color="#262DA1">Contact Us</font></a></b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 12; margin-right: 12; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><b><a href="protected/User_Area.htm" target="_top"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#262CA1">User Area</font></a></b></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </TD> <TD valign="top" align="left" width="608"> <p style="margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b>PIRAMID"!</b> is a <b>risk-based integrity assessment and maintenance planning</b> software tool for pipelines. It assists operators in making integrity maintenance decisions that ensure regulatory compliance, reduce failure frequency, minimize risk exposure, and extend service life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>It can be used to <b>develop risk profiles</b>, evaluate and<b> rank pipeline segments </b>with respect to risk, identify <b>high-consequence areas</b>, <b>compare integrity management options</b> and develop <b>optimal maintenance plans</b>.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12"><font face="Arial" size="2"> PIRAMID"! uses a <b>quantitative approach</b> to estimate financial, environmental and safety risks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>It takes the guesswork out of integrity management by using state-of-the-art,<b> verified engineering models</b> to calculate failure probabilities, failure consequences and risk levels for all major threats to pipeline integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The PIRAMID"! approach provides <b>accurate and objective risk estimates</b> for each pipeline segment <b>taking into account </b>on-going and future <b>integrity maintenance activities</b>.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12"><font face="Arial" size="2"> Software features include an <b>intuitive user interface</b>, a capability to <b>communicate with other databases</b>, and extensive <b>control options</b> that permit the user to<b> </b>define additional failure causes and modify or replace calculation models.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Access to PIRAMID"!</b> is available through flexible <a href=".\Purchase.htm">software licensing schemes</a> or <a href=".\Consulting.htm">consulting arrangements</a>.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.cfertech.com/sites/cfertech.com/files/Piramid_0.pdf">Click here to download a two page <b>PIRAMID"!</b> Brochure (pdf format)</a></font></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial" size="1">© Copyright 2010, C-FER Technologies (1999) Inc.</font></p> </BODY> </HTML>