A Decision Model for Executing Plant Strategy: Maintaining the Technical Integrity of Petroleum Flowlines

摘要

The ‘strategic’ management of technical integrity has become a highprofile subject matter over recent years within inspection and maintenance ofassets in the process industry. The assets such as production and processfacilities require being optimised, prioritised and cost-effective inspection andmaintenance, depending on whether they are at the beginning or end of theirdesign life. In both cases, it is vital to ensure that sufficient conditionmonitoring data from all relevant sources are collated and analysed as a part ina planned scheme of inspection and maintenance. This is largely driven bycertifying authority requirements, sound mechanical and corrosion engineeringprinciples as well as inspection and maintenance approaches, indicated in aplant strategy. This manuscript suggests a model to execute plant strategy usinganalytic hierarchy process method. The model indicates the incorporation ofrequirements specified in a plant strategy for reaching optimised, prioritisedand cost-effective outcome.