Network Maintenance and Integrity
Keeps the existing network sound through planned maintenance of regulators, valves, city gates, water bath heaters and cathodic protection systems, the cyclic leak survey program, and pipeline surveillance. Technicians diagnose and repair defects and keep the asset register current.
What the team is accountable for
- Maintain single and multi-stage pressure control devices
- Monitor, maintain and report on cathodic protection systems
- Run the leak survey program and log every indication
- Carry out surveillance of distribution and transmission assets
- Update the asset register after every inspection or repair
How we know it is working
Who works here
Tom Halloran
Tom owns the regulator maintenance, cathodic protection and leak survey programs and has spent nineteen years in gas network integrity.
Liam Fitzgerald
Liam maintains district regulators and cathodic protection units out of the Traralgon depot and is the depot's leak survey lead after five years in the role.
Where the work is recorded
Network Asset Register
The register of regulator stations, city gates, valves, cathodic protection units and other network facilities with their condition and last inspection.
Field Work Orders
Tracks construction, maintenance and metering jobs from creation and scheduling through to completion, as laid drawings and close out.
Gas Escape and Leak Survey Log
Logs every reported gas escape and every leak survey indication with priority, response times, readings and make safe actions.