Specify the instrumentation and data needed to monitor refinery turnaround planning reliably.
Planning Major Maintenance Turnarounds in Refineries
An applied course in refinery turnaround planning built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how refinery turnaround planning is controlled. In energy operations the cost of getting the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline wrong is measured in downtime, and sometimes in lives. Participants gain a realistic view of what this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations costs and what it returns. Across sectors, teams that rehearse refinery turnaround planning outperform teams that only plan it. The course covers the energy and hydrocarbon operations discipline at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations and under-invest in testing it. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with refinery turnaround planning. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a operating procedure for the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda as they go. The final session converts the week's work on this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish escalation routes for refinery turnaround planning that work outside normal hours.
Communicate the purpose of refinery turnaround planning to those who have to comply with it.
Model the economics of refinery turnaround planning under a realistic range of price scenarios.
Verify that contractors working on refinery turnaround planning meet the same standard as direct staff.
Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from refinery turnaround planning.
Document decisions about refinery turnaround planning in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Who Should Attend
Environmental and regulatory compliance officers covering refinery turnaround planning.
Commercial and planning analysts modelling refinery turnaround planning.
Officers preparing reports on refinery turnaround planning for boards or oversight committees.
Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for refinery turnaround planning.
Inspection and integrity engineers assessing refinery turnaround planning.
Business partners who must understand refinery turnaround planning well enough to challenge it.
Course Modules
Refinery turnaround planning: contracts, contractors and service delivery
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in refinery turnaround planning and what to ignore
- Confirm that reporting on refinery turnaround planning reaches the people who can act.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to refinery turnaround planning.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to refinery turnaround planning and remove nuisance alarms.
- Record what was learned when refinery turnaround planning did not go as planned.
Session 2What the instrumentation on refinery turnaround planning is and is not telling you
- Confirm that lessons from refinery turnaround planning are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when refinery turnaround planning underperforms.
- Check that the permit regime covering refinery turnaround planning matches the actual hazard.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in refinery turnaround planning.
Refinery turnaround planning: economics, price exposure and investment case
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding contractors on refinery turnaround planning to the standard you hold yourself
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to refinery turnaround planning.
- Model the economics of refinery turnaround planning at low, base and high price cases.
- Plan the refinery turnaround planning scope so it fits the available shutdown window.
- Estimate the production loss associated with unplanned downtime of refinery turnaround planning.
Session 2What the last incident involving refinery turnaround planning should have taught us
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of refinery turnaround planning.
- Close out actions on refinery turnaround planning rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Set out the decisions in refinery turnaround planning that require sign-off and by whom.
- Define the safe operating envelope for refinery turnaround planning and how deviations are detected.
Refinery turnaround planning: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of refinery turnaround planning and how to present it
- Name a single owner for each element of refinery turnaround planning.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about refinery turnaround planning.
- Reduce the variation in how refinery turnaround planning is carried out between teams.
- Confirm the inspection interval for refinery turnaround planning is based on condition, not habit.
Session 2Competence and handover on refinery turnaround planning when experienced staff leave
- Review the instrumentation on refinery turnaround planning for coverage gaps.
- Set escalation thresholds for refinery turnaround planning that work out of hours.
- Identify the failure modes of refinery turnaround planning with the highest consequence.
- Set the review interval for refinery turnaround planning and who attends.
Refinery turnaround planning: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the investment case for refinery turnaround planning that finance will accept
- Check that records of refinery turnaround planning answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Verify isolation points for refinery turnaround planning are proven and documented.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to refinery turnaround planning.
- Compare the cost of refinery turnaround planning with the cost of its absence.
Session 2Where refinery turnaround planning typically breaks, and why
- Confirm handover documentation for refinery turnaround planning is complete and current.
- Set out how exceptions to refinery turnaround planning are requested and approved.
- Build the competence framework that supports refinery turnaround planning.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving refinery turnaround planning.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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