Maintenance of Electrical Equipment in Oil and Gas Installations

The course will provide participants from petrochemical locations with practical insights into the philosophies, approach, framework, tools and techniques involved in managing electrical equipment safely and cost effectively. This will be put into a holistic business context. The following give a flavour of the comprehensive cover of the subject.

• Best practice organisational characteristics of petrochemical locations

• Use of a maintenance business model to identify:

– Maintenance purpose from a business perspective

– Key elements that bring high reliability and safety

– Low value activities

• Model Electrical Procedures as a framework for safe and cost effective activities.

– These will include processes, authorisation & permit systems, and use of CMMS

– The fundamentals of safe operation and work on electrical power systems

– Model documentation will be supplied

• Acceptance from projects of correctly installed equipment appropriate to the duty

• Commissioning recommendations for new equipment (or existing after repair)

• Identifying appropriate maintenance tactics for specific equipment

– Use of a simplified Reliability Centred Maintenance approach

– Risk based approach to monitoring the health of specific equipment

• Classification of Hazardous Areas and selection of appropriate equipment

• Safety Integrity Level Classifications

• Maintenance and monitoring approaches to specific equipment

– Derivation of cost effective monitoring frequencies

– Typical best practice frequencies will be provided

The emphasis will be on the phases after design and construction i.e. the management of acceptance from projects and the activities thereafter which will ensure safety and cost effective reliability.