... of alarm conditions such as alarm floods, operator alarm overload, standing alarms, transient alarms, nuisance alarms, chattering alarms, redundant alarms, ignored alarms, defeated (shelved) alarms, process issues related to alarms, faulty field devices, etc. Alarm Types Relatively few individual...

... Abstract Operation management in complex process plants such as major hazard facilities are regularly called upon to make decisions that balance the production and safety requirements of their organization. The process-based rules commonly used in manufacturing and process industries are permit...

... of the operation of the simulated process and to train operators. The instructor will control training simulator's basic functions such as run, freeze, initialization, snapshot, backtrack, and time scaling and invocation of malfunctions/scenarios. In addition the instructor can change the time scale from 0.1 times...

... such as increasingly large plants and retiring workforces. The authors believe that the key to meeting ever-raising expectations is to reduce complexity, and that this can be done in two major ways. First of all, Process Operators must implement modern technologies that are inherently simpler. And Secondly, Vendors...

... oil production. The wells were chosen because of their high productivity, high water cut, suboptimal operation because of pump limitations, and in some cases, marginal economics. The volume of the gel treatments, which were pumped through tubing with a packer above the productive formations, ranged...

... Abstract Tunisia is an area of growing Oil and Gas activity. A number of National Oil Companies are active within Tunisia. This paper focuses specifically upon SEREPT, which has its head office in Tunis and its main operating base in Sfax. It has operations in the Gulf of Gabes (Offshore...

... Abstract Workover operations are a fact of well maintenance that can range from a simple intervention to a costly remediation. Common global issues that warrant workover operations include correcting production or injection profile issues, converting wells from producer to injectors (or vice...