Facility Integrity Management: Effective Principles and Practices for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries

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

Michael Deighton, MENG, CENG, MBA, FIMECHE is a Senior Vice President, and Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers with a wealth of expertise amassed over two decades in the dynamic energy sector, working for the worlds leading international blue chip organizations. His responsibilities include setting operations strategy, delivery of multi-million dollar projects and portfolios, leading the development and implementation of maintenance programs for complex downstream facilities and leading a world class centre of excellence driving innovation and digitization. He has spoken and trained at multiple oil and gas conferences, including ADIPEC, EIC and GASTECH, and elected to the governing body of the latter. He is a Six Sigma Green Belt, earned an MBA for the University of Teesside, a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Newcastle in the UK.