Preliminary Agenda

Industry Regulations, Standards & Codes

Regulation update from MMS – How is it going to affect your pipeline integrity management?

• An update on the rules proposed last year – addressing the comments from the industry and the passing of the final rule
  
• Utilize these rules to mitigate hurricane impacts on pipelines such as dislocation of pipelines due to lack of maintenance
  
• Is the industry using the right models to determine the stability of pipelines or do they need to be updated based on new metocean information?
  
• What can we learn from the platform group which has updated its metocean data to model the impact on facilities at the surface based on new wave, height info, currents, etc?
  
• Addressing the issue of pipelines on the sea floor – who looks after them?
  
• Understand the effects of currents on the sea floor so you can prevent the displacement of pipelines, leakages and production stoppages in shallow water depths due to strong hurricane currents

API RP 2SM – new codes on integrity management for the US oil and gas industry

• What does RP 2SM stand for and how it fits within international codes of practice?
  
• Recommended practice for structural integrity management – understand the process and its elements
  
• Utilize the process for implementing a risk based inspection (RBI) program for offshore structures to maximize cost efficiency
  
• Use the new code to manage your platforms in a way that best suits your business
  
• Strategies to ensure you are exceeding standards and deriving ROI from integrity

PAS55 (Publicly Available Standard) and its applicability in the US

• Leveraging PAS55 for effective asset management
  
• Utilize PAS55 to prove to your shareholders, management, employees that you are looking after the assets, are running them efficiently and safely, and deriving an ROI from them
  
• ISO9000 ensures good quality management system but what are its drawbacks?
  
• How does PAS55 take everything in terms of a good quality system and translate it into a complete package for all your assets?
  
• Ways of measuring what you’re doing against your competitors and showing to the government or legislator that you’re meeting standards

Achieving world class integrity management and exceeding bare standards

• Is compliance enough? Why in today’s E&P industry simply being compliant wouldn’t do
  
• Understanding why investing in IM is worthwhile and the need to exceed the bare minimum standards
  
• What is your attitude towards integrity management? The difference between knowing and believing
  
• Get the information and understand the gaps – carrying out appropriate inspection and maintenance to have a clear picture of what your strategy needs to focus on

Strategies to maintain the quality of equipment and facilities according to governmental regulations

• What are the low cost approaches to maintain equipment and facilities while meeting and exceeding all regulatory requirements?
  
• Understanding the different types of requirements and obligations you have to meet and satisfy from MMS, coast guard, EPA, etc
  
• Effective ways of working with the regulators and opening lines of communication

Regulations around hazardous liquids and what you need to consider in your integrity management strategy

• Useful tools for operators to assess their pipelines for threats and to address those threats
  
• Meet liquid and gas integrity management rules by developing IM plans, conducting assessments and identifying threats
  
• What are the challenges you need to overcome to be compliant with liquid and gas integrity management regulations?

New Approaches To Assessing Structural & Pipeline Integrity

New strategies for structural assessments in the GoM

• The impact of new metocean criteria, released by API last year for the different regions of the GoM, on platform assessments
  
• Pile strength and failures – how can you avoid misleading information from modeling programs about platform failures that show pile failure before any of the jacket members failed?
  
• Taking into consideration the larger storms during design i.e. subsea mudslides, to avoid catastrophic disasters
  
• How can you bring your structure, which was designed for old standards, up to speed with today’s best practices?
  
• New tools that will allow you to cost effectively assess the structural robustness of the platform i.e. online integrity monitoring systems

Impact of hurricanes in the GoM on structural integrity of offshore and fixed platforms

1. What are some of the innovative methods for maintaining floaters in the GOM with severe weather conditions like hurricanes?
   
2. New approaches to minimize the cost of inspection without compromising integrity to protect the structures from the onset of hurricanes
   
3. Avoid platform failures due to hurricanes by ensuring your platforms are safe through a thorough maintenance and inspection plan

Use an effective combination of short term and long term approaches to maximize your integrity management

• Utilizing short term integrity approach for new builds prior to start up – x-rays, hydratesting on wells, flowlines or fittings
  
• Implementing long term integrity for aged facilities in order to avoid reacting to failures
  
• What new tools are out there for testing pipeline integrity?
  
• Use the right integrity management approach to understand how corrosive is your soil and what is it’s history

Streamlining integrity management as an ongoing process from design to development to operations

• Understanding integrity management as an ongoing process – what are the factors involved?
  
• Maximize your investment by taking a risk based approach on your asset
  
• How can you effectively integrate this process into your integrity management program?
  
  • Integrating integrity management into daily activities so it’s seen as a way of doing things rather than a burden
    
• Implement a proper maintenance and inspection routine so you can keep a structure in place as long as you have to

Prevent downtime and ensure safety through fatigue life assessment

• Understand the probabilities – how much fatigue has been put in your platforms as a realistic number?
  
• Use computer software for a more rigorous analysis of the structure’s residual life
  
• How do you protect your structure from reverse level of stresses caused by green waves and waves in cyclic forms in the offshore environment?
  
• How do you prevent reverse level stresses on connections and joints?
  
• Best tips to incorporate environmental factors when engineering the structures and sizing the connections and joints for fatigue life
  
• What is the complexity of your mode and what should be your safety factor?
  
• Addressing safety issues in the design stage when designing for fatigue life
  
• Utilize effective fatigue life assessment to prevent rapid failure from cracks

Integrity management – Marrying strategy with implementation

• Adopt an ongoing measurement process to asses if you’re meeting standards
  
• Firmly define and benchmark what ‘good’ looks like for integrity in your organization
  
• Understand the factors that would impact the implementation of your integrity management strategy – location, regulations and age of asset
  
• Marrying projects with operations – how can operations expand their scope to effect change by ensuring that the project knows what standards operations are trying to achieve

Using risk management as a holistic approach to integrity management

• Understand the whole spectrum of risk and identify where the biggest risks are and categorize them
  
• Reduce costs by applying RBI to high critical areas and quantify the risks you can live with so you can build it into your plan
  
• Ensure successful integration amongst the competent people to use specifications for risk assessment properly – what’s the probability of failure? What’s the consequence of failure?
  
• Consider the specific factors that can have high consequences – climate, quality of labor used during construction, buried line work, off slot piping, etc
  
• Working together with the class society to determine what the highest risk elements are and focus the resources and inspection on those areas

People, processes and systems – understanding your risks for effective integrity management

• Effectively using asset and operating integrity to stop the major accident hazards
  
• Implement effective programs, systems, procedures, to control, detect and mitigate risks
  
• Manage your soft issues and the threats they pose to your asset that can lead to the loss of containment – how competent are your resources and what’s the quality of work?
  
• Determine the critical element of your plant and put in place the mitigating barriers to manage risks

New technologies for maintenance and inspection to improve asset integrity

• What are the technology issues that are centrally managed around inspection techniques?
  
• 3D imaging, laser photography and mapping to effectively assess how good or bad your structure is before you plan your repair procedures
  
• Utilize remote diagnostics and intelligent pigging for pipelines that run miles long
  
• Build intelligent sensors into your design to reduce labor intensive manpower costs of manually inspecting the equipment

Best practices to manage the integrity of flowlines and riser flex joints on floating facilities

• Techniques and methodology of repairing and preventing the degradation of buried or subsea piping
  
• How do you inspect subsea flowlines when technology is limited?
  
• Overcome the complexity of maintaining lines coming from the wells that are tied to production facilities
  
• Developing a method for inspecting leakages or flex joint failures or developing new technologies to replace flex joints

Utilize intelligent pipeline pigging to effectively inspect your pipelines

• Effectively launch pigs by understanding the different types of pig technologies
  
• Can subsea flowlines be designed or constructed to be intelligently pigged for internal inspection of the pipeline?
  
• How do you interpret results from intelligent pigging?
  
• What are the skepticisms around the effectiveness of the technology

Accurately characterize threats on your structure to improve asset integrity

• Ensure interacting threats are considered in your integrity management program to prioritize the most critical segment first
  
• Assess piping casings that can’t be inspected in-line and testing the single source supply to prevent any integrity management issues
  
• Characterize your threats correctly to improve the performance of your integrity management program

The Cost Of Integrity In Today’s Market Condition

Effective lifecycle costing to squeeze maximum capacity out of your plants

• Achieve low cost of life cycle costing by maintain your asset from the start
  
• How can you reduce the cost of going in and replenishing or repainting the structures every few years?
  
• New techniques for information analysis and novel technologies and methodologies to capitalize on your plant potential

Sustaining integrity management in a volatile price environment

• Avoid the common mistake of weighing the cost of developing and implementing the program inappropriately against the benefit
  
• Is integrity management sustainable in a different price environment? Ensure that integrity management is ingrained in how you do your business
  
• Ensure that you’re carrying out inspection routines to a high standard to improve operational efficiencies
  
• Change the view of how companies look at integrity management - cost vs direct revenue generating opportunity

Finding the right balance for maintain integrity with the cost of investment

• Cost effectively maintaining and repairing old assets in harsh environments
  
• Where is the fine balance in getting those results and the cost that goes into getting those results, particularly on old equipment?
  
• Factors to consider for your integrity management program when your production is on the decline and you’re facing bigger maintenance bills

Integrity’s role in designing capital projects and ensuring capital project portfolio profitability

• Balance the push on schedule with appropriate longevity or operational readiness being factored into capital project delivery
  
• Ensure that the asset integrity is being designed in as part of the equation during project FEED
  
• What are the CAPEX delivery challenges and how can you pull in OPEX and asset integrity into that equation?
  
• Ensuring integrity in capital project delivery to prevent cost over-runs in operations

Using effective material selection in design to promote integrity in operations

• OPEX vs CAPEX - How can you manage the type of materials and corrosion inhibitors for the long term?
  
• Material selection in the design of new production facilities – what are the critical factors you need to consider?
  
• Effectively assess your materials and amount of fluids you will handle for severe corrosive wells to keep operating costs low
  
• Prioritizing CAPEX over OPEX to avoid replacing lines and facing costly environmental impacts during operations
  
• Prevent leaks and hazards by safeguarding pipeline integrity through pressure monitoring

Achieving asset life extension on aging infrastructure through cost effective and safe methods

• How can you safely ensure that assets are performing safely beyond their design life in current market conditions?
  
• Demonstrate asset integrity is managed properly and is fit-for-service by ensuring that it is performing safely beyond its design life
  
• Fully evaluate the integrity equation in decisions to extend asset life in current market conditions
  
• Successfully fix structures of old design criteria, built on old methods, by bringing them up to a level of design code to match existing practices

Combating Integrity’s Biggest Evil: Corrosion

Effective tools and methods to combat CUI (Corrosion Under Insulation)

• Improving the performance of integrity management in corrosive environments i.e. salt water environments water getting under insulation causing corrosion
  
• What strategies can you adopt to prevent leaks in piping and loss of containment, caused by corrosion under insulation and microbial influenced corrosion (MIC)
  
• Best forms of chemical control using biocides to minimize the risk of CUI
  
• What are the predictive risk assessment tools for CUI?
  
• Utilize your resources effectively in order to mitigate CUI on an ongoing basis

Predicting and managing critical corrosion-erosion limits of your structures

• Overcome complex corrosion issues in wells with water, sands and CO2 through novel maintenance techniques
  
• How can you reduce the environmental impact from corrosion erosion issues in lines running through the field?
  
• Using simulation based techniques to assess the end of life of the flowline or structure
  
• What’s the commercial impact of your maintenance and inspection regime to ensure you maximize the life of your asset?

Utilizing data and information to manage corrosion issues on your assets

• How can you decide what the appropriate corrosion rates are for managing integrity?
  
• Create a database of surveys providing service information for floating production storage and offloading units to improve integrity programs
  
• How can the lack of data available have a negative impact on your understanding of your asset’s corrosion rates?

Using anodes to inhibit corrosion on connections and structural joints

• Effective uses of anodes to protect the structure against corrosion
  
• What are the standard guidelines for calculating the number of anodes for a period of time
  
• Cost effective method to prolong the life of structure as opposed to going in and repairing a joint or connection
  
• Effectively measure how your anodes are performing against corrosion

Adopt an effective integrated corrosion management program to keep corrosion at bay

• Conduct a thorough analysis of your pipeline material, what type of fluid is going through it and how that fluid has changed over time, to accurately simulate the potential corrosion issue you will face in the future
  
• Assess all your parameters – what are the different failures you have had in the past and the analysis conducted on them?
  
• Provide a recommendation or solution i.e. change the material or inject corrosion inhibitor, while developing a monitoring program to prevent problems in the future

Effectively overcome issues around the availability of corrosion inhibitor injections to keep production running

• What is the corrosion allowance of the thickness of your wall pipe?
  
• How can you achieve an availability of 100%?
  
• Effectively calculate availability based on expect corrosion rates you can allow over the structure’s lifetime
  
• Develop a well thought out a prediction and inspection plan to prevent leakages caused from corrosion.

Novel methods to improve the performance of your chemicals

• Have a clear understanding of what your operating conditions are to accurately select the right chemical
  
• Effectively monitor the corrosion injection system to reduce integrity risks
  
• New techniques to assess the dosage or residual measurement of corrosion inhibitor in fluid streams
  
• Conduct an audit to monitor the right quantities of corrosion inhibitors injected

Improve the data availability within your operational systems to predict corrosion accurately

• Steps you can take to ensure you have your corrosion data information properly available
  
• Overcome secrecy issues around the residual inhibitor measurements in liquids for effective information analysis
  
• Develop a program that allows you to look at all the information in one screen and make some recommendation
  
• Effectively keep track of different events or analysis to control corrosion

Maximize the potential of your coating systems and cathodic protection

• What solutions are there to delay the breakdown of coatings and replenish them cost effectively?
  
• Effective methods to repair or replace coating offshore without having to come into the shipyard for maintenance
  
• Working effectively with coatings manufacturer, shipyards, operators and class societies to improve the performance of coating in service
  
• Ensure that your maintenance and inspection regime measures the performance of your surface coating protection

The Impact Of Human Factors And Soft Issues On Integrity Management

Integrate your integrity management program with existing technical support, competent resources and practices

• What can the industry do to overcome the lack of technical experience? Are there enough people the industry can grow into these required skills?
  
• How can you set the business organization and your operations at a good starting point in order to appropriately manage your business?
  
• Groom people with the expertise to help you develop, implement and operate the right programs in an environment of high level activity
  
• Ensure high quality implementation of programs done in a timely manner within the corporately mandated regulatory timeframe
  
• Ensure that IM programs are in place and utilized properly to overcome mechanical problems

A look at softer issues: Effective change management in roll out of programs and procedures

• Get people’s buy-in to raise the game by keeping documentation simple and understandable
  
• Overcome challenges in rolling out an improvement program effectively into an organization
  
• Make a compelling business to effect change by clearly articulating changes in procedures and processes to improve efficiency
  
• Opening dialogue with multiple parties involved i.e. contractors, to ensure the adoption of best practices

Strategic Issues Around Integrity Management

Integrity’s role in decommissioning – a look at asset’s end of life and potential for reuse

• Suitable options to consider when your assets has reached its end life
  
• Methods to cost effectively remove old assets and looking at alternatives for reuse
  
• Ensuring the integrity of asset is up to standard to allow the reuse of the platform by another operator
  
• Analyze the cost of abandonment to include in your economics of your asset and ensure the documentation is available for 3rd party use

Successfully collaborate with NOCs and host governments to prioritize integrity management in host nations

• Do host governments see the need for integrity management? Are they restrained for budget?
  
• Do their integrity standards match those of an international oil company?
  
• Steps to align corporate objectives with NOCs on safety and integrity
  
• Assess the impact of life extension and asset upgrade on NOC’s stake in the asset