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Asset Integrity and Operational Assurance Asset integrity, or asset integrity management systems (AIMS) is the term for an asset’s capacity to run effectively and accurately,
whilst also protecting the wellbeing of all personnel and equipment with which it interacts as well as the measures in place to assure the asset’s life cycle.
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The process of demonstrating Design and Construction Integrity for the Safety Critical.
Risk based Inspection (RBI Software) is a type of maintenance business process used to analyze equipment, including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and piping in industrial plants. It is a decision-making technique to optimize inspection plans.
The theory of Risk based Inspection is built upon the concept that the risk of failure can be assessed in connection with a level that is acceptable, and inspection and repair are used to assure that the level of risk is below that acceptance limit.
Led by industry experts, including senior consultants and engineers, Velosi’s unparalleled Risk-based Inspection programs feature a total quality assurance approach. We employ a comprehensive and structured approach – in line with industry guidelines like API 580, 581 and API 571 – to analyze the potential risks of each asset by evaluating their current operating conditions in terms of the probability and the consequence of failure, providing our clients with a unique view of the condition of each asset.
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a unique corporate-level maintenance methodology that is executed to optimize the maintenance system of an organization or facility. Successful application of RCM can enhance reliability, cost-effectiveness, machine uptime, and a higher understanding of the level of risk that the business is managing.
We offer first-rate Reliability-centered Maintenance services to our clients to optimize the maintenance strategy of their assets through increasing the cost-effectiveness, reliability, machine uptime, and the understanding of the level of risk that the organization faces.
Our RCM specialists apply rigorous and systematic methods in determining the appropriate maintenance tasks to address each of the identified failure modes and their consequences. At Velosi, we apply the industry best practices – BS EN IEC 60812, SAE JA1011, SAE JA 1012, ISO-14224, and OREDA – to optimize and manage customers’ data, to help our clients make informed and timely decisions about cost savings based on acceptable risk.
Pipeline Integrity Management System (PIMS) is defined as the compilation of preparatory measures that jointly ensure the integrity of the pipeline. PIMS guarantees the accomplishments of your projects by identifying and reducing the likelihood of hazards and avoiding unnecessary shutdowns.
Velosi offers a consolidated Pipeline Integrity Management System (PIMS), for both onshore and offshore facilities, that boasts a set of features to help our clients conduct the inspection in compliance with international standards, such as API 1160 and ASME B31.8S.
Adopting all the industry best practices, our dedicated professionals ensure the accomplishments of your projects by identifying and reducing the likelihood of hazards, and by avoiding unnecessary shutdowns.
Pipeline Integrity Management System (PIMS Onshore) is defined as the compilation of preparatory measures that jointly ensure the integrity of the pipeline. PIMS Onshore guarantees the accomplishments of your projects by identifying and reducing the likelihood of hazards and avoiding unnecessary shutdowns.
Velosi offers a consolidated Pipeline Integrity Management System (PIMS Onshore), for both onshore and offshore facilities; that boasts a set of features to help our clients conduct the inspection in compliance with international standards, such as API 1160 and ASME B31.8S.
Adopting all the industry best practices, our dedicated professionals ensure the accomplishments of your projects by identifying and reducing the likelihood of hazards, and by avoiding unnecessary shutdowns.
Structural Integrity Management System (SIMS Software Solution) is the method of securing compliance with regulatory as well as organizational requirements over a period of time, ensuring the structure is fit-for-purpose until decommissioning or removal. An effective SIM system is substantially critical in preventing catastrophic failure in complex industrial facilities.
At Velosi, we have endorsed the international codes, such as ISO 19900, ISO 19902, ISO 19904 and API RP 2 SIM, in order for our structural integrity experts to ensure sustainability and integrity of onshore and offshore structures during all the phases of the structure life cycle.
Pressurized Equipment Management System (PEMS) is one of the key focuses of Asset Integrity Management that complies with the regulatory requirements for pressure equipment, tank and piping inspections.
Velosi’s PEMS module contains a comprehensive database for piping and pressurized equipment, such as vessels, tanks, heat exchangers and more. It covers the complete risk assessment process and facilitates inspection planning to estimate the remaining life of an asset and the next inspection date.
Inspection Scheduling Management System (ISMS) is an integrated solution that facilitates the inspection planning and recordings through highly effective methods based on time, quantum and risk.
With Velosi’s effective Inspection Scheduling Management System, the operator can conceive packages from scheduled and ad-hoc inspections, carry out inspection result recording, recognize anomalies, and finally create follow-up actions with maintenance notification
Wellhead Integrity Management System is an integrated process used to mitigate the risk and cost of intervention in well integrity incidents, using a multidisciplinary approach and real-time intelligence.
Our well integrity experts apply FMECA-based (Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis) RBI methodology for wellhead integrity assessment and establish the customer methodologies according to industry standards like BS EN 60812, IEC 60812, OREDA, API 6A, API 14B, API 14C, API 7L, API RP 57 and ISOTS – 116530-2 to automate their preventive maintenance activities.
At Velosi, it’s our motto to ensure that wells operate as designed for their assigned life with all risks kept as low as reasonably practicable or as mentioned, securing each well’s integrity. Hence, we provide exceptional operating standards and guidelines for maintaining the well integrity parameters so that the Return on Investment (ROI) is maximized without sacrificing the safety and environment.
Asset Performance Management System (APMS) is a secure and efficient way to increase safety and plant performance, empowering the workforce to make informed decisions that can enhance business performance. While an EAM solution (Enterprise asset management) is a system of record, documenting and managing work orders for each maintenance event across an assets lifecycle.
Velosi’s Asset Performance Management System (APMS module) enables oil and gas organizations to monitor the overall status of system integrity parameters like remnant life, inspection activities, leaks/failures, risk ranking, corrosion rate and replacements via a comprehensive dashboard. It also allows the operator to perform extensive filtering to preview the desired output in the form of graphs and reports for qualitative data analysis.
Safety Integrity Level (SIL) is described as a comparative level of risk-reduction offered by a safety function, or an analysis of performance required for a Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) to maintain or achieve the safety state.
In essence, Safety Integrity Level analysis is an estimation of performance recommended for a Safety Instrumented Function (SIF).
At Velosi, we understand that it is crucial to perform a statistical measurement of how likely a process or a system is to be operational and ready to serve the function for which it is intended, including the calculated time to its likelihood of failure. Our uniquely designed SIL study services comply with global standards – IEC-61508, IEC-61511 and ISA TR 84.00.02 – to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the plant
Condition-based monitoring is a type of predictive maintenance that involves the use of sensors to measure the status of an asset over time while it is in operation. The data that is collected is used to establish trends, predict failure, and calculate the remaining life of an asset. Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) maintenance is only performed when the data shows that the required performance is decreasing.
Through continuous assessment of the assets the Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) solution makes it possible to detect potential problems of the assets at an early stage.
Although, the tool that is used can be expensive to install, and it may be difficult to monitor assets in harsher environments; CBM has the advantage of working while the equipment is in service and does not pose interruption to equipment operation
Condition Assessment Studies (CAS) is one aspect of a Reliability Centered Maintenance process is condition monitoring, the practice of closely monitoring the ‘health’, operating metrics and status of a given component or system to proactively identify any significant changes that could indicate a potential future failure.
The condition monitoring approach requires the collection and analysis of significant amounts of product-specific data and managing that information can pose a challenge for companies of all sizes.
Corrosion Management Plan (CMP) is part of the overall facility management system, which is concerned with the development, implementation, review and maintenance of the corrosion policy.
Corrosion management addresses the management of threats to mechanical integrity arising from mechanism of material degradation, corrosion, and failure.
The most common approach to improve asset corrosion management is to perform an integrity review and use its various products to create or update an asset corrosion management strategy document.
CMP will be compromised of Customization of Damage Mechanism Narratives, Plant Integrity Operating Windows (IOWs), Dashboard, KPIs and Corrosion Management Strategies.
CMP deployment must follow the “Plan-Do-Check-Act” approach so that lessons learned are captured/exploited and continuous improvement achieved at subsequent deployments. For this, the corporate CMP Database is designed to capture major corrosion challenges, potential damage mechanisms, performance measures, corrosion management strategies, technologies, and recommendations. This database also serves as a tracking system for reviews and recommendation implementation.
Corrosion Risk Assessment Study (CRAS) is carried out to identify the damage mechanisms, assessing the likelihood, consequence and overall risk. CRAS acts as a verification of material selection and proposed corrosion control measure. The resulting risk is the basis for the development and update of mitigation measures, online monitoring schemes.
Led by industry experts, including senior consultants and engineers, Velosi employs a comprehensive and structured approach – in line with industry guidelines like API 580, 581 & API 571 and NACE Standards like NACE MR0175, NACE RP-0472 – to identify the potential damage mechanisms that may exist for process equipment components and piping items by evaluating their current operating conditions in terms of the probability and the consequence of failure, providing our clients with a unique view of the condition of each asset.
The ISO 55001:2014 Asset Management System aims to maximize the use of company assets from financial, human resource up to physical assets. With the implementation of this Asset Management System, the company can realize the need and usage of each asset, right consumption and setting up the reasonable limitations of acquiring unnecessary expenditures
CIP Survey identifies area of unacceptably high or low potentials, caused, for example, by interference from other structures, coating damage or current drain to foreign objects. Intensive potential measurement at short intervals (1- 2 m) along the entire pipeline length.
CIP Survey utilize data logger such as digital voltmeter with built-in features to read, report, remember, recall the On/Off potential field data and sub-meter GPS antenna which gives a relative indication of how good the coating is. CIP determines On/Off potential complying with CP criteria either low, medium or high potential excursions while all coating assessment techniques are sensitive to field conditions and differs depends on type of soil, paved, depth of cover, type of coating and more.
The combination of DCVG and CIP Survey techniques could also be performed depends upon the condition of the protective coating on the pipeline and the information or results that are required by the Client.
As pipelines age coatings deteriorate and if corrosion control is not being provided, the rate of corrosion can be excessively rapid in some soils, salt water or where it is exposed. For buried pipelines, coatings alone are inadequate and corrosion defects will likely occur. DCVG survey technique is being performed to detect coating defects, calculate the level of severity, and measure the effectiveness of the cathodic protection in place without damaging the pipeline.
When DC signal is applied to a pipeline, current flow through the soil towards coating defect, generates a Voltage Gradient. By observing at the direction of these gradients, the location of coating faults may be identified. Once defect is located, one can determine its importance by measuring the potential lost from the defect epicentre to remote earth. The PD is expressed as a fraction of total potential shift to the pipeline.
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) are three critical system features that have considerable influence on the sustained or total Life Cycle Costs (LCC) of an asset. The ultimate aim of a RAM study is to manage assets which run the system with minimal cost and maximum efficiency.
Also, the RAM features can impact the capability to perform the intended task and affect the overall success of the mission. The widely accepted description of Reliability is the probability of zero failures over a defined time interval. On the ither hand, Availability is described as the percentage of time a system is considered ready to use when assigned for a task. Maintainability is a measure of the serenity and quickness with which a piece of equipment or system can be restored to operational status following a failure.
At Velosi, our expert systems engineers (SEs) fully understand the intention and role of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) in the acquisition process. RAM happens in systems development and the overall benefits of applying it.
Our expert team of industry professionals provides a statistical basis for the contribution of each asset. We conduct the analysis as per international standards, such as OREDA, ISO-14224, BS-5760, BS-EN 61703 and BS 4778-3. We also utilizing our RAM Analysis/ Modelling Software or Tool.
Fitness For Service (FFS) is considered as the best practice and standard usually employed by the oil and gas industries for determining its condition for continued service. FFS acts as an analytical basis to define flaw acceptance limits and enables the industry experts to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable flaws and damage in accordance with the industry-recognized and widely accepted good engineering practices.
At Velosi, fitness for service assessments are usually measurable engineering appraisals that are conducted to demonstrate the structural integrity of an in-service component that may comprise a flaw or damage. Our FFS assessments are performed in compliance with international standards such as ASME B31G, BS 7910, API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 etc.
Technical Training will help to understand the use of RBI technology for equipment and piping, train attendees to attain necessary skills for implementing RBI in accordance with API 581 and API 580, and the reasons for implementing RBI. This will also cover the benefits and practical application of RBI and planning successful RBI projects.
The course will enable learning the practical likelihood and consequence analysis, inspection plan preparation and optimizing maintenance and inspection intervals, implementing risk mitigation actions and overview of related API documents like API 510, 570, 571 & 653.
The design life of any asset is derived to prevent failure during operation due to time-dependent degradation mechanisms such as corrosion and fatigue. However, the expiry of the design life does not automatically mean that the asset is not fit-for-purpose because corrosion rates determined during the design process could have been conservative and/or corrosion defects could have been repaired; the anticipated operational fatigue damage could have been overestimated. Extended operation beyond the asset design life can be desirable when process fluid remain, or where additional operational assets are tied. The aim of asset life extension studies is to demonstrate that by extending the life of the asset, the operator is not exposing society to unacceptable risk. The Asset Life Assessment is an overview process in which the construction, history and mode of operation of a large number of items of plant equipment are examined together with the ethos and practices of the organization(s) responsible for equipment management. The assessment would typically cover all functional areas. However, it can also be focused on specific areas if desired.
Velosi Integrity Services’ well-proven methodology starts with a careful assessment of asset condition, its operational history and the deterioration mechanisms. Combining these with historic performance assessments reveals the extent to which the asset is suitable for its intended duty and the expected life before unacceptable performance will occur. The equipment is then categorized, to clearly highlight those items of greatest concern. Costs for anticipated changes are then calculated so that the required investment to maintain integrity over a period of time can be determined, typically over 10, 15 or 20 years. Velosi’s life extension studies are in-line with applicable international codes, standards & best industrial practices. Ageing (in the context of process plants) is not about how old an asset/ plant is, rather it is the condition of the asset/ plant and how that condition is changing over time. Ageing is the effect whereby a component suffers some form of material deterioration/ damage (not directly related with time in service) with an increasing likelihood of failure over the lifetime. Overall, an ageing plant which is, or maybe no longer considered fully fit for purpose due to deterioration or obsolescence in its integrity or functional performance. Ageing is not directly referred to chronological age, there are many examples of early ageing (e.g., due to corrosion, fatigue or erosion failures). In the reporting of each item the study team identified actions to ensure sustainability of operation and maintenance strategies of key items, based on normal operation. These involve changes to equipment and improvements to asset care practices. However, in a number of cases, equipment problems have been caused by abnormal operational events. These issues have been highlighted, though the investigation of solutions is outside the scope of this study. In the course of the overall Study, asset care guidance is given to the Operating Company’s personnel. This is done in a number of ways to suit the particular circumstances, ranging from formal training and on-the-job training through to documents for guidance, and advice given informally throughout the course of the study.
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