Day One

27 September, 2011

8.30 Registration and Coffee

9.00 Welcome: Event Director, Hanson Wade

9.05 Chairman’s opening remarks

Integrating Asset Integrity Throughout the Organisation

9.10 Safety of ageing facilities in offshore petroleum production

Establishing necessary standards and guidelines
Risk management: Assessing the state of existing assets
Ensuring safe life extensions in offshore production

Gerhard Ersdal, Lead Advisor, Structural Integrity, Petroleum Safety Authority

9.50 KP4 Update: The ageing and life extension inspection programme 2010-2013KP4 overview

Programme targets
Update on progress so farKey findings
Looking ahead

Dr Alex Stacey, Strategy Manager, Ageing & Life Extension Inspection Programme, Health & Safety Executive

10.30 How far can you extend asset life and how can you make a better business case for asset renewal?

Evaluation and optimisation of asset renewal and timing decisions
Quantifying the risks associated with extended asset lifespans
Optimisation of obsolescence, technology change,refurbishment, replacement and upgrade options
Appropriate adjustments to inspection, maintenance andspares policies
The multi-industry SALVO project: Best practices inmanagement of ageing assets

John Woodhouse, Project Director, SALVO Project

11.10 Spotlight Session

Amor Group

11.20 Speed Networking & Coffee

12.20 Developing and implementing procedures that will better integrate asset integrity into overall company work processes

Identifying the processes and procedures that need tochange: Which departments need to be communicating better and how can this be achieved?
Working to change your company culture so that assetintegrity is involved in the decision making for allpolicies, procedures and engineering modification:Ensure the risk of every decision is fully understood
Getting the balance right between commercial successand operating safety

Dr Qiying Yin, Vice President for RAM Business, Process Integration Ltd1

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Analytic corrosion management of cooling water systems

Problem characterisation
Typical situation in refinery plantsTargets of the analytical corrosion control programme
Programme structure illustrated by the job sequence
Sustaining investment in corrosion management:Dedication maintenance vs. unpredictable failures

Holger Springer, Reliability Manager, Bayernoil

Interactive Roundtable Discussions

14.40 Deciding when to inspect, maintain, service and replace your assets

Financial consequences in the current climate
Implementing procedures which enable production to allow reasonable timescales for inspections andmaintenance which maximise safety
Considering the pros and cons of Risk Based Inspection
Developing strategies for reducing the time between inspection and remediation
Identifying the assets which are not subject to age relateddeterioration in order to optimise maintenance,inspection and replacement plans

In-Conference Workshop

15.40 Health & safety management

Examining the latest strategies for legacy control systemI
EC61508: how closely is this to be followed?
Understanding to what extent you can move the goal posts on Safety Integrity Level compliancy to accommodate new technologies: update on standards and legislation
What are the commercial and operational implicationsof the rigorous application of health and safety standards?
Best practice for Risk Based Inspection
Designing safe work practices and operational, maintenance and control procedures
Developing a top-down set of safety procedures and processes that will be applied throughout the company
Getting the balance right between safety and commercial operations: how can health and safety work more closely with production and finance to ensure that contracts can be fulfilled without a negative impact on safety?

Led by:Stewart Myles, Asset Integrity Manger (Projects),GL Noble Denton