[ AS2885 ]

I’ve had the great fortune to have spent the past 20 years working on committees that are responsible for the AS2885 suite of standards, for Australian petroleum pipelines.

There are seven parts to the series, covering General Requirements, Design&Construction, Welding, Operations&Maintenance, Subsea, Pressure Testing, and Pipeline Safety Management.  

If you add them all up, there are over 1000 pages in the series.  Those pages set out minimum requirements and expectations, and guidelines and background information.

But it is not meant to be a textbook: its purpose isn’t to teach.  But that’s becoming a very grey area.  Hence the 1000 pages.