As oil and gas resources become scarcer, companies are compelled to operate in harsher and riskier circumstances.

The repercussions of a catastrophic failure to humans, the environment, and infrastructure are enormous when operating in High Temperature High Pressure (HTHP) situations. The ideas of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) were developed and deployed to help manage the increasing and unprecedented risk. T

he High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS) is one sort of SIS. A HIPPS is a self-contained protective device that serves as the last line of protection against over-pressurization of downstream processes. A HIPPS, which is typically certified to SIL3, provides operators with the most trustworthy pressure protection system on the market today.