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Introduction

Asset Performance Management (APM)

Background

With a capacity of 8 billion standard cubic feet per day, ADNOC Gas Processing, part of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, operates one of the world’s largest gas processing plants.  The plant processes gas from onshore and offshore sources to produce a range of products, including methane, ethane, propane, butane, paraffinic naphtha, condensates and sulphur.

Challenge

As safety and environmental constraints increase, operators must ensure the safe operation and containment of their processes. Mechanical integrity regulations require the capture of volumes of data to ensure equipment is designed, fabricated, installed, operated, and maintained properly to mitigate associated risks. This amount of data can be difficult to manage, making it increasingly difficult to understand current risk levels and drive optimization of mechanical integrity inspection and engineering resources.

In 2013, ADNOC Gas Processing began what would become a phased approach to reach a full-scale Risk Based Inspection (RBI-581) methodology that would ultimately save millions and reduce inspection tasks by 44%.

Solution

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Results

Several actions are being assessed in order to sustain the results and further improve the ADNOC Gas Processing Mechanical Integrity program, including adoption of an Integrity Operating Window (IOW) management program enabled by the GE Digital APM solution, as well as implementing mobile technologies to improve field personnel effectiveness.

Plant engineers are also focused on continued improvement of integrity management effectiveness by developing even better KPIs, using the metrics and scorecards capabilities.