Integrated Process Safety Tools for Managing Risk of Abnormal Operations Condition in Medco E&P

Abstract

Process safety is paramount for the oil and gas industry including Medco E&P. Process Safety is essential to prevent major incidents that may have significant impacts in terms of economic loses, environmental damage, and even human loss. Having a strong Asset and Operating integrity programs is a key to carrying out a strong process safety in day-to-day operations. One element in asset and operations integrity that contributes to delivering a safe operations is managing abnormal operation conditions. Abnormal operation condition is defined as operations with process/system/equipment anomaly because they are outside the safe operating limit (SOL), safety critical equipment (SCE) performance degradation, SCE integrity failure, and disable safety protected function. In Medco E&P, abnormal operations risk have been assessed and managed by several tools or systems such as Safety Critical Element Abnormal Risk Assessment (SCEARA), Integrated Anomaly Alert Notification (IAAN) and SCE Preventive and Corrective Maintenance (SCE PM & CM) deferment process. These tools are made as an effort in case of continuous operations under abnormal conditions is intended by minimizing residual risk to a tolerable level. These tools are implemented by online system in Medco E&P’s enterprise resource planning, known as Business Process Management (BPM). The findings reported from the audit and self-assessment showed that it is perplexing to monitor and track between the correlated systems. This later encouraged the integration of the above tools for better abnormal operation risk management. The integration of the system then introduced as Integrated Process Safety Tools. The Integrated Process Safety Tools adds values to the management of abnormal conditions by reducing overlapping processes in the business process flow, facilitating monitoring and mitigation control, and aligning the SCE deviation mitigation periods based on risks; ranging from report initiation, work order planning until deferment processes and also clear commitment to complete abnormality. Integrated Process Safety Tools are designed to be one of the foundations in building awareness and culture of Process Safety within the Company. This paper shares the experience in managing abnormal operation condition in Medco E&P offshore operations assets both surface facility and subsurface facility that associated with Safety Critical Equipment (SCE) and its enhancement through The Integrated Process Safety Tools. The Integrated Process Safety Tools adds values to the management of abnormal conditions by reducing overlapping processes in the business process flow, simplify monitoring and mitigation control, and aligning the SCE deviation mitigation periods based on risks; ranging from report initiation, work order planning until deferment processes, also clear commitment to complete abnormality.