Preliminary Technical Agenda

Tuesday, 26 January

0900–1200 hours

Session 1: Critical Success Factors for the Development and Implementation of Whole Life Cycle IM Systems (Managerial Aspects)

1330–1730 hours

Session 2: Critical Success Factors for the Development and Implementation of Whole Life Cycle IM Systems (Procedural Aspects)

With the continued aging of facilities, increasingly complex operations and challenging business objectives, full life cycle integrity engineering has emerged over recent years as a separate discipline requiring dedicated practitioners with a specific set of technical and managerial skills.

The objective of the first two sessions is to provide opportunities to understand better, how integrity management (IM) should be developed by operators in order to drive the organisational culture towards full alignment and establish strong connections between IM objectives, business sustainability and corporate vision, mission and values.

The two sessions will provide a platform for integrity professionals to present case studies reflecting their experience for developing, implementing and sustaining IM systems with emphasis on critical success factors for management aspects (session 1) and for procedural issues (session 2).

The outcome of these two sessions is expected to create a step change in the mind-set of cross-organisational functions on the importance of full life cycle facility integrity hidden risks, their early mitigations and how strongly they are connected to production and HSE.

 

Wednesday, 27 January

0900–1230 hours

Session 3: Equipment Specific IM Systems (Subsurface)

1330–1730 hours

Session 4: Equipment Specific IM Systems (Surface)

The objective of these two sessions is to focus on managing the integrity of ageing and newly built surface and subsurface oilfield equipment and facilities. The proper integrity management of these assets ensures the sustainability of profitable and safe operations. An Integrity Management System (IMS) provides the assurance that a specific asset is managed by competent people during its whole life cycle without detrimental impact on people, environment or business activities. These two sessions are focused on examples of IMS related to oil and gas onshore and offshore both surface and subsurface facilities. The purpose is to share experiences, with professionals describing, for specific asset, a way to identify critical equipment, to assess and manage the risk associated to their operating envelope, to monitor their condition, to detect and correct deviation, to ensure the competence of the personnel involved and finally to audit and optimise the performance of the IMS.

 

Thursday, 28 January

0900–1230 hours

Session 5: Facilities Full Lifecycle Advances in Corrosion Control

This session will discuss the best practices on corrosion control in the oil and gas industry. Corrosion control begins during initial design or post-production sustainment of any industrial system. Failure to control corrosion will lead to:

• Facilities impairment
• Safety non-compliance
• Increased costs
• Environmental impact
• Company image detonation

Corrosion negatively impacts cost in a number of ways. It can reduce the performance quality of any facility, infrastructure or equipment, which in turn may generate the need for additional operational assets, budget and resources. With the potential for corrosion, considerable downtime is required to detect and assess the presence of corrosion and its impending effects. While the impact of corrosion on physical infrastructure is of great concern, the cost of corrosion on operational safety can be immeasurable in terms of injury or death, reduced infrastructure readiness and safety affects mission and cost considerably. Despite this difficulty, determining the financial cost of corrosion is an essential component of corrosion prevention and mitigation strategy. The “Full Lifecycle Approach” can be the best integrated answer for this corrosion control.

1330–1730 hours

Session 6: Assurance of Process Safety through Integrity Management Systems

The optimum goal for any asset owner is to eliminate/minimise the down time and increase the reliability of the safety systems in the process. The assurance of the process safety and implementation methods. Discussing the risk on management to reduce the likelihood and consequences of releases, which helps protect employees and the public and prevent damage to equipment and the environment. Reducing these risks also improves productivity and quality of any asset. In this workshop three subjects will be presented showing participants the latest practices in implementing the process safety for the oil and gas sectors.

• Equipments protection system
• Competency of process operators
• Data management and mitigation plan

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