Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from long-distance crude pipeline design.
Designing Long-Distance Pipeline Networks for Crude Oil Transport
Turn long-distance crude pipeline design from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
In energy operations the cost of getting long-distance crude pipeline design wrong is measured in downtime, and sometimes in lives. Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how pipeline design is controlled. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda. The programme is built to be used, and every section of long-distance crude pipeline design it covers ends in something applicable. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations is examined, not just described. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better pipeline design is rarely technical. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on long-distance crude pipeline design and revise it on evidence. What blocks progress on pipeline design is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The final module sets out how progress on the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Set acceptance criteria for pipeline design before work begins rather than after.
Build the competence and certification matrix for staff working on long-distance crude pipeline design.
Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in pipeline design.
Sequence improvements to long-distance crude pipeline design so that each step makes the next one easier.
Design a practical operating method for pipeline design that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Plan the decommissioning or life-extension decision for assets involved in long-distance crude pipeline design.
Who Should Attend
Specialists advising senior management on long-distance crude pipeline design.
Environmental and regulatory compliance officers covering pipeline design.
Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on long-distance crude pipeline design.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with pipeline design in real time.
Project engineers delivering capital work involving long-distance crude pipeline design.
Officers preparing reports on pipeline design for boards or oversight committees.
Course Modules
Long-distance crude pipeline design: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Deciding between life extension and replacement for long-distance crude pipeline design
- Identify critical spares for long-distance crude pipeline design and confirm lead times.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving pipeline design.
- Confirm that reporting on long-distance crude pipeline design reaches the people who can act.
- Agree what will be standardised in pipeline design and what will not.
Session 2What the last incident involving pipeline design should have taught us
- Confirm that lessons from long-distance crude pipeline design are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Name a single owner for each element of pipeline design.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to long-distance crude pipeline design and remove nuisance alarms.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates pipeline design is under control.
Pipeline design: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading condition data on pipeline design before failure, not after
- Review the instrumentation on long-distance crude pipeline design for coverage gaps.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to pipeline design.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about long-distance crude pipeline design.
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios pipeline design can create.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on pipeline design starts
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on long-distance crude pipeline design.
- Arrange the handover of pipeline design so capability survives staff changes.
- Verify six months later that changes to long-distance crude pipeline design have held.
- Draft the minimum viable operating procedure for pipeline design.
Pipeline design: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in pipeline design and what to ignore
- Set out the decisions in long-distance crude pipeline design that require sign-off and by whom.
- Identify the failure modes of pipeline design with the highest consequence.
- Confirm the inspection interval for long-distance crude pipeline design is based on condition, not habit.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of pipeline design.
Session 2Spares, logistics and single points of failure in long-distance crude pipeline design
- Plan the long-distance crude pipeline design scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
- Estimate the resource pipeline design requires to run as designed.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of long-distance crude pipeline design before proposing changes.
- Check that records of pipeline design answer the questions likely to be asked.
Pipeline design: planning, shutdowns and execution windows
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Fitting pipeline design into the shutdown plan without extending it
- Set escalation thresholds for long-distance crude pipeline design that work out of hours.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on pipeline design.
- Model the economics of long-distance crude pipeline design at low, base and high price cases.
- Verify isolation points for pipeline design are proven and documented.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in pipeline design
- Define the safe operating envelope for long-distance crude pipeline design and how deviations are detected.
- Identify where judgement in pipeline design is legitimate and where it is not.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for long-distance crude pipeline design.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in pipeline design.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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