Gas consumption increase and also a large scale of gas-distributing networks create new and ever more challenging problems for the engineers, associated with the development and modernization, safety and reliability improvement of the systems. These problems can be solved only by using new technologies and methods of calculation. Analysis of the statistical data on the underground distributing gas pipeline damages in the Gorlovka city of Donetsk region revealed that most of the failures are from the corrosion damage. Based on the statistical data on all types of the underground gas pipeline damages, which is the source of the gas leak, the determination method of integral specific failure rate was developed considering time in service and diameter of the gas pipelines. This method is based on the determination of the optimal step of the gas pipeline time in service, during which the failure rate is taken as constant, and on the integral specific failure rate calculation. It was discovered that the integral specific failure rate depends on the gas pipeline diameter and its time in service. Due to the fact that the coefficient SDR jumps at the diameter 219x7 mm, the dependence equation of the integral specific failure rate on time in service and diameter of the gas pipeline is derived for two diameter ranges 57-159 mm and 219-530 mm. The diameter decrease and the time in service increase lead to the integral specific failure rate increase.