Bruce Beighle has provided the U.S. oil and gas industry with regulatory, risk and integrity management consulting services for more than 15 years. Since 1996 Bruce has managed his consulting firm, Benchmark-RM, Inc., in a strategic partnership with W. Kent Muhlbauer of WKM Consultancy, llc. (author of Pipeline Risk Management Manual).
Bruce has expertise in developing risk/integrity management programs and creating pipeline facility risk assessment models based on his extensive experience in pipeline modeling, design, construction, testing, operations, maintenance and regulatory compliance.
Bruce has performed risk assessments on over 50,000 miles of crude, product, HVL, chemical and natural gas pipeline facilities, as well as developed U.S. DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) accepted risk/integrity management programs and facilitated benefit-cost driven multi-year budgets for several large oil and gas pipeline companies.
Bruce is also recognized by PHMSA and the U.S. pipeline industry for being a key stakeholder in the development of liquid low-stress pipeline rules, risk-based pipeline code alternatives, station facility risk models and pipeline risk/integrity management programs.
As an Integrity Solutions partner, Bruce will continue to provide the oil and gas pipeline industry with best in class consulting services including pipeline facility: risk assessment modeling; regulatory compliance management; risk/integrity management program development; operations, maintenance and emergency procedure manual development; and, personnel training.
Education
• Montana State University, B.Sc. Chemical Engineering
Publications and Presentations
• "Engineering Evaluation of Integration Data" – Direct Assessment, presented
• at AGA Spring Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2005
• "U.S. Pipeline Integrity Management Regulations", keynote presentation,
• NACE International Pipeline Integrity Management Seminar, Calgary, Alberta,
• May, 2002
• "Risk Assessment – The Competitive Advantage", published in conference
• proceedings, 2nd International Pipeline Conference, Calgary, Canada, and
• June 1998
Positions
• American Innovations (Bass-Trigon), V.P. of Sales & Marketing, 2004 - 2005
• Baseline Technologies, CEO, 2002 - 2003
• Benchmark-RM, President, 1996 – 2002
• UniField Engineering, V.P. of Operations, 1991 – 1996
• Pacific Gas & Electric, Sr. Gas Engineer, 1985 – 1991
