Services
Veritas Pipeline Consulting specializes in providing comprehensive consulting and integrity management services for oil and gas pipeline operators. Our team offers in-depth expertise and industry knowledge to ensure the safety, efficiency, and compliance of your pipeline operations.
Pipeline Failure Incident Investigation
Independent, Objective, and Experienced
When a pipeline failure occurs, the priority is understanding what happened and why. Our team specializes in leading and managing pipeline failure investigations, helping operators navigate the high-stakes environment that follows an incident. We can be your full turnkey provider for managing all pipeline failure incidents or focus on your high-profile cases requiring engagement with state and federal agencies, potential claimants, and multiple internal functions.
Bringing in an independent third party demonstrates your company’s commitment to transparency and ensures all stakeholders observe the work as an unbiased investigation. Having spent our careers working in pipeline integrity and operations, we understand the pressure, urgency, and complexity of these situations. No two failures are the same, but each demands a precise and well-managed response.
Comprehensive, Onsite Support from Day One
We mobilize immediately and work alongside your team to:
✅ Establish an investigation team and define the scope of work
✅ Preserve critical evidence and document key details
✅ Conduct interviews to gather facts and timelines quickly
✅ Manage internal communications across legal, operations, integrity, and compliance functions
✅ Develop and execute a structured investigation plan
✅ Navigate crisis management communication to effectively interact with the media and public
Failure Mode and Root Cause Focused, Legally Aligned
Our fact-driven approach ensures a thorough root cause analysis of the failure modes. We have extensive experience working under client attorney privilege, helping teams navigate sensitive internal discussions during an investigation. Our process ensures that findings are accurate, defensible, and actionable.
Representation & Testimony
We don’t just investigate—we stand by our findings. Our team has served as:
✔️ 30(b)(6) witnesses in depositions as designated company representatives
✔️ Lead witnesses in trials and regulatory hearings
✔️ Advisors for legal teams, ensuring accurate communication of findings
Your Trusted Partner in High-Stakes Moments
Pipeline failures come with operational, reputational, and legal challenges. We provide the leadership, expertise, and investigative discipline necessary to guide your company through the incident and help you emerge stronger.
Contact Us Today to learn how we can support your pipeline failure investigation needs.
Inspection and Assessment Program Management
Independent, Proactive, and Experienced
Operating pipelines safely and reliably requires a comprehensive inspection and assessment program. Our team specializes in managing these programs, helping pipeline operators, utilities, and other pipeline owners maintain the integrity of their gas and liquid pipeline systems. We coordinate end-to-end inspection activities – from running in-line inspection tools to recommending repairs – so that potential issues are identified and addressed before they become problems.
Having spent our careers in pipeline operations and integrity management, we understand the regulatory pressures, scheduling constraints, and technical complexities you face. Every pipeline system is unique, but each benefit from a strategic, well-managed inspection regimen to ensure long-term safety and compliance.
Comprehensive Support from Planning to Execution
We work closely with your team to:
✅ Develop a risk-based inspection (RBI) plan tailored to your pipeline system
✅ Coordinate in-line inspections using caliper, MFL, EMAT, UT, and other ILI tools for comprehensive pipeline assessment
✅ Plan and oversee pipeline pressure testing campaigns to validate integrity
✅ Deploy advanced robotic inspection tools for unpiggable or difficult-to-inspect pipelines
✅ Analyze inspection data and provide actionable recommendations to inform repairs and integrity plans
Risk-Based Planning, Data-Driven Insights
We apply proven risk-based methodologies to ensure inspection efforts target the most critical pipeline segments first. By leveraging advanced data analysis, we turn inspection findings into clear insights and actionable plans. This proactive approach means your program not only meets regulatory requirements for pipeline integrity, but also helps prevent issues before they arise.
Independent, Vendor-Neutral Expertise
We pride ourselves on being vendor-neutral and client-focused. With decades of hands-on experience, our team has served as:
✅ Integrity program managers for major pipeline operators
✅ Specialists in in-line inspection and integrity assessment techniques
✅ Advisors to industry committees on pipeline safety and inspection best practices
Your Trusted Partner in Pipeline Integrity
Ensuring pipeline safety and reliability is an ongoing, high-stakes responsibility. We provide the dedicated program management, expertise, and independent assurance needed to protect your operations and reputation. From planning through execution, we stand ready to support your team at every step. With us as your partner, you can confidently maintain pipeline integrity and focus on your core business.
Contact Us Today to learn how we can support your pipeline inspection and assessment program needs.
Integrity Management Plan Review and Development
Strategic, Independent, and Compliant
Integrity Management Plans (IMPs) form the cornerstone of pipeline safety, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency. Our expert team specializes in the independent review, improvement, and comprehensive development of IMPs, ensuring pipeline operators and utilities meet regulatory standards and industry best practices with clarity and confidence.
Our extensive experience in pipeline operations, risk management, and compliance positions us to craft IMPs tailored precisely to your operational realities and strategic goals.
Comprehensive IMP Services
We partner closely with your team to:
✅ Perform thorough reviews of existing IMPs against current regulatory requirements and industry standards
✅ Identify gaps, suggest improvements, and ensure seamless regulatory alignment
✅ Develop customized, risk-based IMPs that integrate seamlessly with your operational procedures and management systems
✅ Incorporate data-driven methods, predictive analytics, and practical risk mitigation strategies
✅ Facilitate stakeholder understanding and adoption of new or revised IMP elements
Regulatory Alignment, Practical Execution
Our meticulous approach ensures your IMP is fully compliant, robust, and executable. By systematically reviewing and refining your plan, we help reduce risk, avoid regulatory complications, and improve operational efficiency. We deliver clear, practical strategies to effectively manage pipeline threats and demonstrate ongoing compliance.
Independent, Experienced Professionals
Our integrity management specialists have:
✔️ Extensive experience creating and revising IMPs for diverse pipeline systems
✔️ Led compliance-focused integrity planning for operators across North America
✔️ Served as expert advisors to industry regulatory committees on IMP best practices
Your Expert Partner in Integrity Management
An effective Integrity Management Plan is vital to safe and reliable pipeline operations. We offer independent expertise, strategic insight, and thorough documentation to ensure your IMP meets rigorous regulatory expectations and operational needs, helping safeguard your assets and enhance your organization's integrity management capability.
Contact Us Today to learn how we can support your Integrity Management Plan initiatives.
M&A Integration Planning and Execution Consulting
Turning Strategic Transactions into Operational Success
Mergers and acquisitions don’t end at the deal table. The real challenge — and opportunity — lies in integration. Our team helps pipeline operators prepare for and execute seamless post-merger transitions, with a sharp focus on integrity, corrosion, and compliance programs. Having led these efforts from inside operating companies, we know how critical it is to get it right the first time.
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
M&A transactions live and die by the acquirer’s ability to integrate successfully — on budget, on time, and with the confidence of investors and regulators. Integration starts with a robust plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
We begin by working with key stakeholders to understand both companies’ programs and processes. Then, we:
✅ Develop a blueprint of all activities performed by both companies to document the people, process, technology, documentation, frequency, cross-functional impact, and RACI chart
✅ Based on the blueprint, conduct a detailed gap analysis across all activities.
✅ Prioritize actions to address risks and align activities
✅ Evaluate the allocation of people and assets across the expanded footprint to get a current as-is state — including a skills assessment of the team to ensure the right balance in different service areas
✅ Develop a timeline and baseline plan for execution
Your Team, Focused. Your Business, Uninterrupted.
The effort required to develop and execute a comprehensive integration plan is enormous — and often falls on teams already stretched thin. We step in so your internal teams can stay focused on day-to-day operations, minimizing disruptions and reducing risk.
Execution That Builds Alignment
Once the acquisition is complete, we lead execution of the integration plan. We track progress, hit deadlines, and keep all teams aligned — ensuring the final product has buy-in from those responsible for carrying it forward. We also help realign field personnel across the new asset footprint, balancing workloads and improving efficiency.
Supporting the People Behind the Process
Bringing in a third party to lead integration not only brings structure and focus — it sends a strong signal to your newly acquired teams. It shows that you're committed to an objective, fair process and genuinely interested in operating as one team.
Get in touch to learn how we can support your next M&A integration — and help turn your strategic transaction into a long-term success.
Operational Efficiency and Continuous Improvement
Value Stream Mapping & Process Mapping
Efficient, Visible, Actionable
Every organization has workflows that aren’t as efficient as they could be—creating rework, slowing progress, and frustrating the people doing the job. Over time, these inefficiencies often become “just how things are done,” embedding waste into your business.
We help you break that cycle. Leveraging proven Lean tools like Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Process Mapping, we partner with your team to uncover where time, effort, and resources are being lost—and design ways to streamline work.
Two Tools. One Goal: Clarity.
✅ Value Stream Mapping (VSM) takes the big-picture view—how value flows across your entire organization from start to finish. It uncovers delays, handoffs, and non-value-added steps that slow things down.
✅ Process Mapping zooms in to individual workflows—revealing extra approvals, redundant data entry, unclear responsibilities and other detail-level inefficiencies.
To
gether, VSM and Process Mapping make the invisible visible—giving your team the insight to identify what’s blocking efficiency and performance.
What It Looks Like in Practice
Pipeline Field Operations
In the field, even small delays can ripple into major cost, time and safety impacts. Crews waiting on work orders, materials staged incorrectly, or ambiguous scheduling all add up. By mapping these workflows, we expose where things get stuck—and how to free them up. The outcome? Faster response times, less rework and wait time, stronger alignment between engineering, operations and field crews. Better for customers, better for employees.
Corporate Business Processes
In the office, inefficiencies often surface as long approval chains, redundant data entry, unclear role assignments, missing or inconsistent standards, and departmental silos. Value Stream Mapping visualizes how work and information flow across teams; Process Mapping uncovers the detailed breakdown points. When teams can see it, they can fix it—resulting in smoother, faster, smarter business operations.
Standard Work & Process Confirmation
Consistent, Clear, Safe
Many operators have detailed procedures that meet regulatory or industry standards—but those documents don’t always translate into how work is performed in the field. That gap often leads to inconsistent execution, inefficiency and elevated safety risk.
We bridge the gap using Standard Work Instructions (SWI) and Job Element Sheets (JES) to turn complex procedures into clear, actionable, repeatable field practices.
What We Deliver:
✅ SWIs: Step-by-step instructions for completing tasks in your company’s most efficient, reliable way.
✅ JES (Job Aids): More detailed tools tailored for field employees—covering equipment settings, key movements, safety watch-outs, and other critical performance nuances.
These tools enable every team member to perform work that is:
✅ Efficient – done in the best-known way, minimizing waste and time.
✅ Consistent – done the same way every time, regardless of who performs the task.
✅ Safe – reducing variability and improving the likelihood of safe, high-quality work.
These three value drivers—efficiency, consistency and safety—are central to building a strong operational foundation. We work directly with your field teams to develop and deploy SWIs and JES for your mission-critical and safety-critical tasks, ensuring your workforce knows not only what must be done—but how to do it safely and effectively, every time.
Process Confirmation
Preventing Backsliding and Preparing for Continuous Improvement
Establishing Standard Work is only the first step. To sustain and continuously improve it, supervisors must routinely verify that work in the field is being done as intended—and that the people doing the work understand why each step matters.
Process Confirmation provides the structure for that. It enables supervisors to systematically and consistently observe field work to ensure:
✅ Adherence – Teams are following the defined SWI and JES.
✅ Understanding – Employees grasp the purpose behind each step and its connection to safety and efficiency.
✅ Improvement – Insights from the field are captured and shared to identify better ways of performing work without compromising safety or compliance.
Through Process Confirmation, supervisors use Leader Standard Work, job aids, and Socratic questioning to engage their teams in meaningful dialogue. This turns oversight into coaching—reinforcing the use of standard work while creating an ongoing feedback loop for improvement.
The outcome is a system where:
✅ Work is performed safely and consistently.
✅ Supervisors develop and support their teams daily.
✅ Ideas for improvement come directly from those closest to the work.
Contact Us Today to discuss how these services can optimize operations, reduce lead times, and increase the consistency of quality work, drive continuous improvement, and improve your customer's experience.