🧰 Overview
The Pipeline Downtime Cost Estimator is a practical tool designed to calculate the financial impact of production downtime across one or multiple product streams. It helps pipeline operators, planners, and asset managers assess potential losses during planned or unplanned outages and supports decision-making for maintenance timing, redundancy, and operational efficiency.
📝 Input
- 🔢 Flow Rate per product stream
‣ Units: Barrels per day (BPD) or Cubic meters per day (m³/day) - 💲 Product Price per stream
‣ Units: USD/barrel or EUR/barrel - ⏱️ Downtime Duration
‣ Units: Hours or Days - ➕ Option to Add Multiple Streams to reflect different products or segments
📊 Calculations
The tool multiplies the flow rate by the duration to estimate total product loss, and then applies the price to determine the cost for each stream. The cumulative downtime cost and total lost volume are summarized.
Key calculations include:
- Total barrels lost = Flow rate × Downtime duration
- Cost impact = Lost volume × Product price
- Total cost across all streams
📤 Output
- 📉 Barrels Lost per Stream
- 💰 Cost per Product Stream
- 🧾 Total Cost of Downtime
- ➕ Stream-specific loss breakdowns for reporting and cost justification