Assess the technical and commercial risk attaching to pumped hydro and compressed air storage across the asset life cycle.
Managing Pumped Hydro and Compressed Air Energy Storage Technologies
Practical training in pumped hydro and compressed air storage, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Deferred maintenance and deferred decisions on pumped hydro and compressed air storage both accrue interest. Assets involved in air storage routinely outlive the engineers who commissioned them. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability. Organisations that document pumped hydro and compressed air storage properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. This programme builds the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from air storage, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. Moving pumped hydro and compressed air storage from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of air storage to standardise and which to leave flexible. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Agree the first three actions on air storage that will be taken on returning to work.
Handle the trade-offs in pumped hydro and compressed air storage between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Set acceptance criteria for air storage before work begins rather than after.
Model the economics of pumped hydro and compressed air storage under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Assess air storage against the emissions and efficiency targets the organisation has committed to.
Structure contracts and service agreements covering pumped hydro and compressed air storage.
Who Should Attend
Facility and plant managers accountable for pumped hydro and compressed air storage.
Department heads accountable for the results of air storage.
Shift supervisors and control room leads dealing with pumped hydro and compressed air storage in real time.
Contract and procurement staff supporting air storage.
Operations and production engineers responsible for pumped hydro and compressed air storage.
Officers preparing reports on air storage for boards or oversight committees.
Course Modules
Pumped hydro and compressed air storage: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Fitting pumped hydro and compressed air storage into the shutdown plan without extending it
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of pumped hydro and compressed air storage.
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of air storage.
- Model the economics of pumped hydro and compressed air storage at low, base and high price cases.
- Build the internal briefing that explains air storage to those affected.
Session 2Building the investment case for air storage that finance will accept
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on pumped hydro and compressed air storage.
- Confirm handover documentation for air storage is complete and current.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of pumped hydro and compressed air storage current.
- Set the review interval for air storage and who attends.
Air storage: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The operating limits on air storage and what happens beyond them
- Collect evidence on the present handling of pumped hydro and compressed air storage before proposing changes.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on air storage.
- Review whether pumped hydro and compressed air storage is aligned with the objectives of the operating asset.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving air storage.
Session 2What to measure in air storage and what to ignore
- Close out actions on pumped hydro and compressed air storage rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates air storage is under control.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around pumped hydro and compressed air storage are understood.
- Review the instrumentation on air storage for coverage gaps.
Air storage: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Competence and handover on air storage when experienced staff leave
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios pumped hydro and compressed air storage can create.
- Check that air storage still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Confirm that reporting on pumped hydro and compressed air storage reaches the people who can act.
- Confirm the inspection interval for air storage is based on condition, not habit.
Session 2Reading condition data on pumped hydro and compressed air storage before failure, not after
- Confirm that those complying with pumped hydro and compressed air storage understand why it exists.
- Confirm that lessons from air storage are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to pumped hydro and compressed air storage.
- Define the safe operating envelope for air storage and how deviations are detected.
Air storage: instrumentation, data and condition monitoring
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for air storage, and to whom
- Rank the weaknesses in pumped hydro and compressed air storage by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to air storage and remove nuisance alarms.
- Rehearse the briefing on pumped hydro and compressed air storage that would follow an incident.
- Build the competence framework that supports air storage.
Session 2Closing out air storage and capturing what was learned
- Set out how exceptions to pumped hydro and compressed air storage are requested and approved.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to air storage.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when pumped hydro and compressed air storage underperforms.
- Verify isolation points for air storage are proven and documented.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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