achieving superior operation reliability

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Achieving Superior

Operation Reliability

A case for transformation


Achieving Superior

Operation Reliability

The E&P industry faces tough business &

operational challenges. Though the

organizations have some form of reliability

improvement processes, they suffer from

issues related to information management,

collaboration & workflow inefficiency.

The objective of this paper is to present a case to

include reliability improvement process in

organizations transformation agenda and

increase its efficiency and effectiveness.


Analyze the Information

• Maintenance management data

• Corrosion data

• Engineering drawings

• Routine inspection tasks

• Sample data

Performance Data

• Process models

• Surface network model

Equipment Models

• Operation manuals, equipment manuals, maintenance guidelines

• Trouble shooting reports

• Vendor reports, equipment design limits

• Third party audit data

• Best practices

• Policies, standards and guidelines

Documents and Records


RIP requires a multi-disciplinary

team. Typically organizations lack

the necessary infrastructure to

effectively collaborate with experts

• The staff is not able to effectively

communicate, freely share critical information

with SMEs or external consultants and

monitor the execution of recommended

action from a central location.

• This leads to poor diagnosis and suboptimal

resolution of the reliability issue.

The information, documents and

records created during the lifecycle

of equipments are collected, stored,

processed and archived in various

places and not integrated.

• Spend a lot of time in searching for the

required information and converting it into an

analysis-ready format.

• Potential conflicts between the information

received from different sources creating

doubts about their trustworthiness.

• Results in inaccurate or incomplete analysis

or delay in completing activities.

ISSUES IMPACT

Issues with Reliability Improvement Process - 1


Issues with Reliability Improvement Process - 2

Most of the problem solving related

to equipment operations often

happen in an unstructured manner.

The staff is not able to develop in-depth

understanding of equipment history and past

issues which undermines quality and depth of

their analysis leading to suboptimal

resolution.

Typically organizations lack a well

defined and standardized workflow

management mechanism

The staff faces hand-over delays, lack of

visibility into tasks and silos of information

creation.

An incomplete view prevents the staff from

understanding the equipment history that

may potentially undermine their analysis

leading to suboptimal resolution.

ISSUES IMPACT


Achieving Successful RIP transformation

Adopt a program centric approach to ensure alignment with business goals

Formulate an implementation staircase to address program complexity

Identify synergies with existing operational improvement programs to optimize program execution

Identify quick-win opportunities to accelerate the program timeline

Identify key IT enablers and appropriately address them in Enterprise IT Architecture

Secure right skill set for program to build credibility


Benefits

Improved reliability of equipment by improving MTBF (mean

time between failures) of components

Improving the performance of the overall asset by optimizing

surrounding equipment that may provide benefits in the

form of reduced fuel consumption, waste recycling etc.

Reduce cycle time of equipment reliability improvement

initiatives

Early or accurate identification of opportunities for reliability

improvement


Conclusion

A good starting point for organizations should be to

conduct a feasibility study to understand the

maturity of their existing RIP and potential gains

from achieving target transformed state of RIP

A feasibility study should review previous reliability

improvement initiatives and their outcomes

Once a business case is established, the senior

leadership should commit necessary organization

resources and provide their full support for the

transformation program

With that organizations would do well to observe

some of the key principles listed by us to avoid

pitfalls and maximize value from the transformation

program.


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