Facility Integrity Management

Facility Integrity Management: Effective Principles and Practices for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries presents the information needed to completely understand common failures in the facility integrity management process. By understanding this more comprehensive approach, companies will be able to better identify shortcomings within their respective system that they did not realize existed. To introduce this method, the book provides managers and engineers with a model that ensures major process incidents are avoided, aging facilities are kept in a safe and reliable state and are operating at maximum levels, and any gaps within the integrity management system are identified and addressed, such as the all too common fragmented reliability programs. The book approaches oil and gas facility management from a universal perspective, effectively charting out existing oil and gas facilities and their associated work processes, including maintenance, operations, and reliability, and then reconstructs them in order to optimize the way integrity is managed, creating a synergy across the various elements. Easy to read, packed with practical applications applied to real process plant scenarios such as key concepts, process flow charts, handy checklists, real-world case studies and a dictionary, provides a high quality guide for a breakdown free facility, maximizing productivity and return to shareholders. Helps readers gain a practical and industry specific approach to facility integrity management supported with real-world case studies from oil, gas, and petrochemical facility locations Presents a facility integrity excellence model, a holistic approach for oil and gas companies to drive towards integrity assurance unit monitoring, creating a failure-free environment Identifies and addresses failure of facility processes and equipment before the onset of performance degradation, keeping equipment maintenance costs low and reliability high.

Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface -- About the Author; Definitions and Nomenclature; Figure Listing; Table listing; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; 1.1 -- Introduction -- Facility Integrity Management; 1.2 -- Changing Industrial Landscape; 1.3 -- The Role of Facility Integrity; 1.3.1 -- Ensure the Availability of all Facilities; 1.3.2 -- Safeguard the Integrity of all Facilities; 1.3.2.1 -- The Piper Alpha Disaster; 1.3.2.2 -- The Flixborough Disaster; 1.3.2.3 -- The Effect on the Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Industries.

1.4 -- Facility Integrity Management Systems1.4.1 -- Does This Look Familiar ...?; 1.4.2 -- Facility Integrity "Excellence"?; 1.4.3 -- Planning for Facility Integrity Management; 1.5 -- Introduction to Facility Integrity Excellence Model; 1.5.1 -- Holistic Viewpoint; 1.5.2 -- Risk-Centered Culture, the Heart of Facility Integrity Management; 1.5.3 -- Facility Integrity Excellence Model Representation; 1.5.4 -- The Three Essential Elements of Facility Integrity Management; 1.5.5 -- "What Gets Measured Gets Done"; 1.6 -- Design Considerations for This Book; 1.7 -- Chapter-by-Chapter Synopsis.

Chapter 2 -- Facility Integrit…