Plan valve and control system maintenance around shutdown windows rather than against them.
Managing Valve and Control System Maintenance in Pipeline Networks
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run valve and control system maintenance properly.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in valve and control system maintenance; it has added to it. Assets involved in system maintenance routinely outlive the engineers who commissioned them. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this strand of energy and hydrocarbon operations under scrutiny. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place valve and control system maintenance among the areas with the widest performance spread. The content is relevant to those who own the energy and hydrocarbon operations capability and to those who are held accountable for its results. Buying a tool rarely fixes system maintenance; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of valve and control system maintenance and prepares them for it. This programme builds system maintenance from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. The final module sets out how progress on this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Handle the trade-offs in system maintenance between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Design permit and isolation controls covering the work involved in valve and control system maintenance.
Capture and act on lessons from incidents and near misses involving system maintenance.
Test the organisation's response to valve and control system maintenance under conditions that are less than ideal.
Set a realistic target state for system maintenance and a defensible route to it.
Specify the instrumentation and data needed to monitor valve and control system maintenance reliably.
Who Should Attend
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing valve and control system maintenance.
Consultants and service company personnel supporting clients on system maintenance.
Officers preparing reports on valve and control system maintenance for boards or oversight committees.
Operations and production engineers responsible for system maintenance.
Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in valve and control system maintenance.
Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting system maintenance.
Course Modules
Valve and control system maintenance: process safety, permits and isolation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reviewing valve and control system maintenance when nothing has gone wrong
- Confirm that lessons from valve and control system maintenance are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Plan the system maintenance scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
- Review the instrumentation on valve and control system maintenance for coverage gaps.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving system maintenance.
Session 2Fitting system maintenance into the shutdown plan without extending it
- Anticipate the objections valve and control system maintenance will raise and prepare the answers.
- Check that records of system maintenance answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to valve and control system maintenance.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for system maintenance.
System maintenance: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for system maintenance step by step
- Check that the permit regime covering valve and control system maintenance matches the actual hazard.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to system maintenance will be introduced.
- Identify where judgement in valve and control system maintenance is legitimate and where it is not.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to system maintenance and remove nuisance alarms.
Session 2Reading condition data on system maintenance before failure, not after
- Set the review interval for valve and control system maintenance and who attends.
- Confirm handover documentation for system maintenance is complete and current.
- Map the handovers in valve and control system maintenance between functions and secure them.
- Check that system maintenance still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
System maintenance: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Competence and handover on system maintenance when experienced staff leave
- Model the economics of valve and control system maintenance at low, base and high price cases.
- Confirm the inspection interval for system maintenance is based on condition, not habit.
- Estimate the resource valve and control system maintenance requires to run as designed.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on system maintenance.
Session 2Closing out valve and control system maintenance and capturing what was learned
- Identify critical spares for valve and control system maintenance and confirm lead times.
- Confirm that reporting on system maintenance reaches the people who can act.
- Verify six months later that changes to valve and control system maintenance have held.
- Identify the failure modes of system maintenance with the highest consequence.
System maintenance: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the investment case for system maintenance that finance will accept
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in valve and control system maintenance.
- Define the safe operating envelope for system maintenance and how deviations are detected.
- Review whether valve and control system maintenance is aligned with the objectives of the operating asset.
- Verify isolation points for system maintenance are proven and documented.
Session 2The environmental exposure created by system maintenance
- Rehearse the briefing on valve and control system maintenance that would follow an incident.
- Define acceptance criteria for system maintenance in advance.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of valve and control system maintenance.
- Name a single owner for each element of system maintenance.
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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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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