Operational Excellence Strategies in Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals
Introduction
Operational Excellence Strategies in Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals
Operational Excellence Strategies in Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals
COURSE OBJECTIVE
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the benefits of acquiring best practices from HROs
- Show how activities play a part in helping their organization perform at a higher level
- Determine methods for generating and implementing effective performance metrics
- Use a process improvement methodology back at work
- Analyze critically the methodologies employed in the organization & implement improvements
TARGET AUDIENCE
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Business Analysts
- Operations Management Personnel
- Field Supervisors
- Engineers
- Technicians
COURSE OUTLINE
Day One: Safety Systems and Risk Management
- Safety first
- Learning from failures
- Analyzing near misses, incidents & accidents
- Taxonomy of theories
- Risk assessment, Choice of case studies
- Types of recommendations
Day Two: Continuity of Operations – Plant Systems Reliability
- Coping with risks
- Defining reliability and resilience
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) techniques
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Reliability Blok Diagram (RBD)
- Practical examples and case studies
Day Three: Case Studies from High Reliability Organizations (HROs)
- Case from Aviation industry
- Case from Process industry
- Case from Oil and Gas industry
- Case from Nuclear industry
- Group work and group presentations
Day Four: The Concept of Generic Lessons & Benchmarking
- Attributes of the generic lessons
- Best practice of learning from failures from different industries
- Best practice can be learned from worst practice
- The ten generic lessons and the three underpinning factors
- What is benchmarking? History of benchmarking
- Different methods of benchmarking and how they relate to each other
Day Five: A Model of Learning and Unlearning Excellence
- Adaptive organizational learning
- Routine dynamics
- The Decision-Making Grid (DMG) model
- A framework for analyzing near-misses and failures
- High severity with low frequency versus high severity with high frequency