Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on solar and wind resource assessment both accrue interest. Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in resource assessment — it punishes it. Comparative studies of this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Moving solar and wind resource assessment from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. It is written for people who have to make the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda work with the resources they already have. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make resource assessment hard in practice. Participants finish able to explain solar and wind resource assessment to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The programme takes participants through resource assessment end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on solar and wind resource assessment.
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Diagnose whether a problem in resource assessment is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
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Build a register of the risks attaching to solar and wind resource assessment and keep it current.
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Verify that contractors working on resource assessment meet the same standard as direct staff.
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Set the minimum documentation for solar and wind resource assessment that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
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Integrate resource assessment with the wider process safety management system.
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Model the economics of solar and wind resource assessment under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Who Should Attend
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Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to solar and wind resource assessment that has grown up informally.
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Project engineers delivering capital work involving resource assessment.
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Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in solar and wind resource assessment.
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Commercial and planning analysts modelling resource assessment.
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Inspection and integrity engineers assessing solar and wind resource assessment.
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Environmental and regulatory compliance officers covering resource assessment.
Course Modules
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01
Solar and wind resource assessment: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Reviewing solar and wind resource assessment when nothing has gone wrong
Agree what will be standardised in solar and wind resource assessment and what will not.
Identify the data already collected that bears on resource assessment.
Establish the alarm philosophy applying to solar and wind resource assessment and remove nuisance alarms.
Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to resource assessment.
Session 2What the instrumentation on resource assessment is and is not telling you
Review incident and near-miss history involving solar and wind resource assessment.
Identify single points of dependency in resource assessment and reduce them.
Model the economics of solar and wind resource assessment at low, base and high price cases.
Identify the failure modes of resource assessment with the highest consequence.
02
Resource assessment: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Testing resource assessment before relying on it
Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to solar and wind resource assessment.
Remove steps in resource assessment that add effort without adding assurance.
Arrange the handover of solar and wind resource assessment so capability survives staff changes.
Confirm that reporting on resource assessment reaches the people who can act.
Session 2Holding contractors on resource assessment to the standard you hold yourself
Review the instrumentation on solar and wind resource assessment for coverage gaps.
Check that the permit regime covering resource assessment matches the actual hazard.
Close out actions on solar and wind resource assessment rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios resource assessment can create.
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Resource assessment: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Building the investment case for resource assessment that finance will accept
Compare the cost of solar and wind resource assessment with the cost of its absence.
Define the safe operating envelope for resource assessment and how deviations are detected.
Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for solar and wind resource assessment.
Set out the decisions in resource assessment that require sign-off and by whom.
Session 2Competence and handover on solar and wind resource assessment when experienced staff leave
Verify isolation points for solar and wind resource assessment are proven and documented.
Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on resource assessment.
Check that management of change is applied to every modification of solar and wind resource assessment.
Record what was learned when resource assessment did not go as planned.
04
Resource assessment: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The operating limits on resource assessment and what happens beyond them
Establish what evidence demonstrates solar and wind resource assessment is under control.
Reduce the variation in how resource assessment is carried out between teams.
Map the handovers in solar and wind resource assessment between functions and secure them.
Confirm that lessons from resource assessment are shared beyond the team that learned them.
Session 2Building the method for resource assessment step by step
Confirm handover documentation for solar and wind resource assessment is complete and current.
Rank the weaknesses in resource assessment by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for solar and wind resource assessment.
Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on resource assessment.
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Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
Workshop or Program Participation
Airport Transfers
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Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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