Operational Performance in the Oil and Gas Industry through Asset Integrity Management

Process safety and asset integrity is very often enshrined in corporate integrity systems and operating procedures supported by operating safety audits that have been in place for a long time to meet regulations and try to ensure no failures occur. Often considered a necessary overhead, consider for a second whether in your company asset integrity is more than a series of inspection tasks, corrosion analyses, and equipment monitoring tasks. Is your asset integrity management program helping you deliver world-class operational performance? Going beyond the concept of “Fitness-for-Service,” asset integrity management is a business-critical process that should help identify and shape opportunities for operational excellence – improving safety and optimizing you capital and operational spend. This paper explains how a reliability centered approach to maintenance and asset performance management can help you develop and implement world-class operational performance through asset integrity management.