Operational Reliability and Improvement through root case analysis of plant trips

Reliable and safe operations are a cornerstone of PDO’s sustainability, helping to deliver on our business commitment and contribute to our license to production. PDO has embarked on the concept of “Sweat the Assets” to optimize the production and to enable opportunity identification all the way from operators to managers. The implementation of Operational Reliability Improvement Process (ORIP) in Gas Assets was an enabler to the proactive threat mitigation by the gas operations team, with the drive and support from Gas leadership team. ‘No Trip Campaign’ was initiated by Gas team to enhance the current ORIP process, in Jan 2016 to reduce unscheduled deferment by 50%. The main objective is to prevent trips and minimize re-occurrence of identical failure modes through revisiting of previous RCAs and 5-Whys for their completeness and in addressing the root cause of the failure. In addition to this, new comprehensive RCAs were performed to address certain complex failure modes in equipment and process and have embarked on the “Enhanced Problem Solving Team (EPST)” approach to resolve some of these high consequence issues. The “No Trip Campaign” was conducted for 3 of the gas facilities in 2016, which have identified number of improvement measures that will be replicated in other gas facilities. The outcome of this campaign has identified a total of 100+ improvement actions for gas facilities which are being actioned and tracked under the ORIP process for execution. This presentation will highlight the business cases and value realization that were realized in PDO gas facilities.