Key techniques and main advances of risk assessment of gas pipelines

The risk assessment of gas pipelines is the necessary measure to realize the maximum economic benefit under the precondition of safe operation, and the important technology to realize the conversion from safety management to risk management and from experience management to science management. The main contents and methods of risk assessment of gas pipelines, the key techniques of quantitative risk assessment of gas pipelines at home and abroad, and the main advances of risk assessment of gas pipelines in the recent years are introduced. The key problems to solve are proposed for risk assessment of gas pipelines to develop continuously.