Attitude of Collaboration, Real-Time Decision Making in Operated Asset Management

摘要

"Knowledge makes you free from the chains of ignorance, and revives your heart, knowledge takes you out from the darkness of suspicions and superstitions, and gives a new light to your eyes." Hazrat Abu Ali Saqfi Managing an operating asset in the oil and gas industry is a complex activity: the physical process needs to be controlled in such a way that its technical objectives are achieved, while the multitude of technical process parameters handled are being kept within their operational envelope, according to physical and chemical rules; the complex technical equipment supporting the physical process needs to deliver momentarily the technical process parameters as required by the technical process, while the sustainability of its reliability and integrity is being maximized; the asset's operating mode has to be changed with an acceptable frequency, according to economic, social and strategic requirements, and all operating modes, as well as the transitions from one operating mode to another, have to comply with the technical process feasibility and the equipment reliability and integrity criteria from above; regulatory constrains reduce the degrees of freedom for the technical and economic objectives, while adding new tags to the list of parameters to monitor and control; last but not least, the safety of the staff working on the asset and of the natural and social environment in which the asset is being implanted is a matter of concern which needs to be also monitored and controlled.