BS EN ISO BRITISH STANDARD 16708:2006 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Pipeline transportation systems : Reliability-based limit state methods The European Standard EN IS0 16708:2006 has the status of a British Standard ICS 75.200 BSi NO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW British Standards BSENISO16708:2006 National foreword This British Standard is the official English language version of ENISO16708:2006.ItisidenticalwithISO16708:2006. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted by Technical Committee PSE/17, Materials and equipment for petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries, to Subcommittee PSE/17/2, Transmission pipelines, which has the responsibility to: aid enquirers to understand the text; present to the responsible international/European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep UK interests informed; monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK. A list of organizations represented on this subcommittee can be obtained on request to its secretary. Cross-references The British Standards which implement international or European publications referred to in this document may be found in the BSI Catalogue under the section entitled "International Standards Correspondence Index", or by using the “Search"facility of the BSI Electronic Catalogue or of British Standards Online. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. Compliance with a British Standard does not ofitself confer immunity from legal obligations. Summary of pages This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, the EN ISO title page, the EN ISQ foreword page, the ISO title page, pages i to v, a blank page, pages 1 to 57 and a back cover. The BSI copyright notice displayed in this document indicates when the document was last issued. Amendments issued since publication This British Standard was Amd. No. Date Comments published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 28 April 2006 @BSI2006 ISBN0580481565 EUROPEANSTANDARD EN ISO 16708 NORMEEUROPEENNE EUROPAISCHENORM April 2006 ICS 75.200 English Version Petroleum and natural gas industries -Pipeline transportation systems s - Reliability-based limit state methods (isO 16708:2006) Industries du petrole et du gaz naturel - Systemes de Erdol- und Erdgasindustrie - Rohrleitungstransportsysteme transport par conduites - Methodes aux etats-limites Zuverlassigkeitsanalysen (ISO16708:2006) basées sur la fiabilite (ISO 16708:2006) This European Standard was approved by CEN on 3 March 2006. CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the Central Secretariat or to any CEN member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. cer EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMITE EUROPEENDE NORMALISATION EUROPAISCHES KOMITEE FUR NORMUNG Management Centre: rue deStassart, 36 B-1050 Brussels @2006CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved Ref. No. EN ISO 16708:2006: E worldwide for CEN national Members. ENIS016