Mr. Craig Chaney is a Metallurgical Engineer with over 40 years of experience in the energy industry conducting a wide range of failure analyses, material selection, structural mechanics, corrosion studies, and corrosion mitigation projects. Over the last 22 years, he has worked on integrating his engineering expertise to assist oil and gas operators with the compliance of federal integrity management rules. He was an early developer of pipeline integrity management plans, external direct assessment, and internal direct assessment procedures. The frameworks laid out in these programs are still widely used today in pipeline integrity management programs.

He has recently been focused on assisting operators in risk and probabilistic analyses to determine if a pipeline has a viable threat and the defensible and cost-effective mitigation measures to be taken. These analyses integrate pipeline integrity data the operator has collected over the last couple of decades. The data from ILI, hydrostatic tests, direct examinations, and laboratory studies are then statistically integrated to determine the probability of rupture over time. These probabilities are helpful in determining the type and timing of subsequent integrity activities.