... oil & gas volatility decision-making transaction outbound logistics lever downtime pipeline refinery maintenance category F10: Growing Midstream Value This Forum will analyze different strategies and growth drivers to achieve value-chain margin opportunities in the oil and gas...

... for frequent and efficient preventative maintenance of facilities. In today s day and age, such a disaster should be unthinkable given the amount of technology available to predict such failures and trigger corrective action automatically. However, such is not the case always, as we shall see from the next...

...) with relevant policy and procedures. Company operational assets include Wells, Flow lines, Manifolds, Gathering Centres (GC), Booster Stations (BS), Pipelines corridors, Tank Farms, Export & Marine Facilities. Planned Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Inspection & Corrosion activities involve RBI (Risk...

...20th World Petroleum Congress, Doha 2011 Forum BPK05: Refinery maintenance and operational reliability © World Petroleum Council Refinery maintenance and operational reliability Dr. Klaus Niemann, TNK - BP Management, Gremany Abstract In recent years higher oil prices and energy conservation have...

... and software by applying lessons from practical experiences and risk assessment. The golden age of the downstream is over. Pursuing the effectiveness and efficiency of the refinery operations to the limits is a must. About 65 billion USD is spent yearly for maintenance in HPI which is a high potential...

... however. Whoever can make the best products at the lowest cost will win. Lead and Enable are the great determinants of that relative success. In addition, Physical Asset Management has an identity crisis. Most practitioners use the term synonymously with the maintenance function. Asset Management's...

... greater yield and recovery of higher value products, increased throughput and energy efficiency. Asset management improvements are based on an assessment study that covers all aspects of reliability engineering, maintenance systems and turnaround management. Elements that were selected for implementation...

... maintenance of production equipment such as furnaces, boilers and heat exchangers. The use of new designs equipment in the process such as compact heat exchangers and cogeneration systems can improve performance and increase the profitability in an existing refinery. Saving energy in the process will also...

... maintenance create value portal application eBusiness big thing refiner administrative cost competitive advantage utilization 157BLOCK 4 FORUM 23 THE NEXT BIG THING IN REFINING Jeff Sakaguchi Partner Accenture Mark Gess Senior Manager Accenture It may seem premature to be talking about...

... Abstract Consolidation and maintenance of knowledge basis are considered important, but are not treated adequately as a tool to enable changing in common practices inside a company. Trying to keep the experience of a company in a "former document" is not a trivial practice. Reports...

... benchmarking Upstream Oil & Gas Efficiency maintenance operation Optimize economics new discovery Drilling development cost transportation economics OPTIMZE economics block 1 operator Forecast Paper 141BLOCK 1 REVIEW AND FORECAST PAPERS USING BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES TO OPTIMIZE...

..., construction, operation and maintenance, and ultimately to public safety. INTRODUCTION OPERATION and MAINTENANCE The pipeline industry has experienced many 1.1. Risk Management changes over a short period of time, and change will Faced with rising expectations from the public be a constant well...

... indicator operation category maintenance cost category personnel transportation Mexico Shelf operator productivity Gulf operating cost offshore field compression UTILISING BENCHMARKING TO ADD VALUE 144 UTILISING BENCHMARKING TO ADD VALUE TO FIELD OPERATIONS G. Gordon Clarke and Adrian...

... assessment modeling, integrated data TransCanada Pipelines Limited is a maintenance procedures and automatic leading North American energy provider with generation of pipeline alignment sheets. While 37,780 kilometres of natural gas pipeline that diverse, the execution of these projects under a links...

... will need to extend from the sales contract through to shipping. However, flexibility is mainly driven by the need to reduce costs and shipping is very much an element in these costs reductions. gas monetization ship maintenance freight & logistics services Midstream Oil & Gas Capex...

... of personnel in quality processes – Effective usage of ambitious target numbers – Management involvement – Reduced manning – Optimised maintenance – Close cooperation with the employers and their unions. In the period 1992-1996 the fieId cost for Oseberg was reduced by 50...

... International Oil Companies (IOCs) and Bechtel. However, in order to maximize the production output at an economical level Upstream Oil & Gas crude separation and treating optimization dehydration Tank Vapor cost driver Implementation maintenance production facility booster station...

... of the API-Risk Based Inspection committee which is being sponsored by 20 oil and petrochemical companies. Risk based management is a method for using risk as a basis for prioritising and managing inspection, maintenance and operating programs. Actual field studies have demonstrated that a very high...

... to be simultaneously developed, in an area asset and portfolio management project management platform central platform strategic planning and management field development optimization and planning operation AGIP Standardization satellite platform subsea system Upstream Oil & Gas maintenance...

... and materials, proper lay out of systems and arrangement is essential for reliable operation, easy maintenance and long life. Thorough supervision by the Owner and the Classification Society during construction is of course of utmost importance. Training of officers and crew and proper familiarization...