DEFINE | Management Consultancy & Training

Advanced Operations and Shutdown Management

Location

Dubai, UAE

Date

From Date: 19-Feb-2024
To Date: 23-Feb-2024

Duration

5 Days

Language

English

Discipline

Process Engineering

Introduction

This comprehensive training program covers advanced pigging operations, advanced flaring system operation, and emergency shutdown systems in the oil and gas sector. Participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively plan, conduct, and monitor pigging activities while ensuring control over protection systems.

The oil and gas industry are surrounded with examples of poor Turnarounds, which have injured people and damaged businesses. If Turnarounds are not properly planned, managed and controlled, companies run the risks of serious safety and budget penalties, costly schedule delays and negative impacts on customers. As a consequence, operators are starting to explore Turnaround best practices and establish a more robust methodology.

Turnarounds are the highest risk activity that we routinely perform in the industry, but they are also an area of massive variability in approach and outcome. Central to the variability is a lack of written methodologies and training – there are around 1,000 times as many books on maintenance as there are on turnaround management. All too often companies see Turnarounds as something to be survived and therefore it is no surprise that most Turnarounds fail.

The purpose of this course is to equip the participants on the use of the Model of Excellence for Operations and Turnarounds and the principles of Challenge Planning to equip attendees with an advanced approach to Turnaround Management. The course is backed by real situations, high levels of interaction, group exercises and multiple case studies. It will explore the underlying mechanisms and levers that shape a Turnaround to demonstrate why we sometimes succeed or fail and introduce new conceptual approaches that can increase our chances of succeeding.

Objective

Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

Understanding the concept in details of oil & gas processes operations and shutdown management
Position Turnarounds as part of an overall strategy of improving business performance.
Build the best Turnaround team possible from available resources.
Help senior management build effective steering teams.
Reduce the downtime associated with turnarounds while simultaneously improving safety performance.
Use the Model of Excellence to analyses their own performance, explain key principles to others and build a detailed methodology of their own.
Maximize the benefits of planning and preparation through a proactive challenge planning process where the participants will build a Turnaround from the ground up from concept to execution and review.

What you will learn

Understanding oil & gas processes operations
Shutdown management
Position Turnarounds
Build the best Turnaround team
Build effective steering teams.
Simultaneously improving safety performance.
Model of Excellence to analyses of own performance.
Planning and preparation through a proactive challenge planning process where the participants will build a Turnaround from the ground up from concept to execution and review.

Audience

This course has been researched and developed for Experienced Managers, Superintendents, Supervisors, Engineers, Planners, Team Leaders and Coordinators of:

Section Head (Gas), Snr Gas Engineer, Controller Gas in the oil and gas sector
Skills in Gas Operations and Operations Common
Shutdowns/Turnarounds
Maintenance
Engineering
Reliability
Plant
Outage
Asset Management

Content

Day (1):

Day One: Operations Shutdown Types & Asset Pairing

Definitions of Shutdown, Turnaround
Material failure and degradation in Operations using API 579
Operations structure and unit’s sensitivity to failure
Failure rate mathematics the basis of Reliability center maintenance
Shutdown and the life cycle of oil & Gas processes facilities
Illustrative related video
Workshop – learned lessons
Day (1) quiz

Day (2):

Day Two: Shutdown & Turnaround Planning

Oil & Gas process Work Order system (WO) input for Planning
Size of work using API 579 and create Work Breakdown Structure (WBs)
Creating the most appropriate organization structure to run the shutdown
Spare parts and materials required for the shutdown
Personnel internal or subcontractors required for shutdown
Illustrative related video
Workshop – learned lessons
Day (2) quiz

Day (3):

Day Three: Organizing the Shutdown Time Sequencing

Work sequencing optimization
Material –personnel- contractors’ constraints
Fitting the optimum number of shutdowns in the life cycle of Plants
Utilization of timing techniques (CPM-PERT)
Illustrative related video
Workshop – learned lessons
Day (3) quiz

Day (4):

Day Four: Control of Shutdown Time, Costs & Work Quality

Gantt charts for keeping in time
S- curve usage for budget monitoring
Financial reserves for uncertainties
ISO/API standards for work handover

Illustrative related video
Workshop – learned lessons
Day (4) quiz

Day (5):

Day Five: Shutdown Performance Analysis & Turnaround Efficiency Measurement

Asset Turnaround Performance Indicators
Shutdown Workload Performance Indicators
Shutdown Planning Performance Indicators
Turnaround Effectiveness and cost Performance Indicators
Shutdown and Turnaround data archiving and future recommendations
Illustrative related video
Workshop – learned lessons
Competency exam

Case Studies, Group Discussions, Last Day Review, Assessments will be carried out.

Certificate

Define Management Consultancy & Training Certificate of course completion will be issued to all attendees.

Methodology

The training course will be highly participatory and the course leader will present, guide and facilitate learning, using a range of methods including formal presentation, discussions, sector-specific case studies and exercises. Above all, the course leader will make extensive use of real-life case examples in which he has been personally involved. You will also be encouraged to raise your own questions and to share in the development of the right answers using your own analysis and experiences. Tests of multiple-choice type will be made available on daily basis to examine the effectiveness of delivering the course.

30% Lectures
30% Workshops and work presentation
20% Case studies & Practical Exercises
10% Role Play
10% Videos, Software or Simulators (as applicable) & General Discussions

Course Details