Safety and security of oil and gas pipeline transportation: A systematic analysis of research trends and future needs using WoS

The terrorist attack on the Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia September 14, 2019 attracted global attention to significant role of safety and security sustainable gas supply chain vulnerability infrastructures subject intentional unintentional damages. Different from other infrastructures, pipelines may be more vulnerable accidental, natural threats due their widespread distribution. Therefore a systematic thorough review is carried out investigate based bibliometric analysis. First, total 598 publications between 1970 related was retrieved refined database Web Science (WoS). are analyzed by software VOSviewer obtain temporal regional distribution publications, identify “productive institutions” authors”, create cooperation networks institutions authors. Besides, evolution research topics methods identified keywords bibliographic Moreover, main insight into evolutions trends. Risk assessment, leakage, corrosion while QRA, fuzzy theory Bayesian network most frequently used methods. To further improve sustainability pipelines, this study provides discusses future needs such as pipeline security, environmental sustainability, system resilience. According these results, risk assessment consequence analysis using CFD increase future. guidelines resilience, impacts better protect expected.