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Oman Gas Company Digitalizes its Reliability and Integrity Program

Oman Gas Company Digitalizes its Reliability and Integrity Program
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Bentley Advancing Infrastructure Project Summary Organization: Oman Gas Company S.A.O.C. Solution: Utilities and Industrial Asset Performance Location: Al-Khuwair, Muscat, Oman Project Objectives: • Digitize the reliability and integrity program and establish digital workflows for equipment inspections. • Manage all elements of asset performance and integrity within a single platform. • Automate asset reliability and maintenance functions to minimize human intervention. Products used: AssetWise Asset Reliability Oman Gas Company Digitalizes its Reliability and Integrity Program Bentley's AssetWise™ Reduced Equipment Failures and Improved Reliability Performance by 9 Percent Fast Facts • AssetWise provided a single platform for risk-based inspection program, analysis, and inspection data management. • Previously manual performance calculations are now automated in AssetWise. • Workflows and approvals are streamlined and support timely and accurate decisions. ROI AssetWise provided a connected data environment and established digital workflows that reduced equipment failures and improved reliability performance by 9 percent. Leveraging the capabilities within AssetWise, OGC optimized maintenance and operation costs. The successful implementation of Bentley's technology transformed OGC's approach to asset management from reactive to proactive, significantly impacting revenue and profitability. Committed to Operational Excellence Established in 2000, Oman Gas Company (OGC) is the principal gas transportation company in the Sultanate of Oman. OGC operates a 2,500-kilometer, high-pressure gas transmission network spread among more than 40 facilities, including three compressor stations and 38 gas supply stations that run the length and breadth of the Sultanate. With annual gas transmission volumes of around 21.549 billion cubic meters, the company distributes gas to 4.4 million people, as well as to the majority of the Sultanate industrial sectors, from power and desalination plants, to fertilizer, methanol, petrochemicals, refineries, and cement plants. Truly "powering the nation," OGC must ensure reliable product availability. The Challenge The company's small reliability team manages the performance and reliability of the numerous plants and widely distributed assets throughout Oman. These engineers conducted manual performance calculations for reliability and availability using manually collected data stored in disparate databases. With scattered data, lack of resources, and manual processes prone to human error, OGC recognized the need to initiate an advanced reliability and integrity program to achieve operational excellence as a world-class, midstream gas value chain company. A Connected Digital Solution To eliminate human fault analysis and improve resource effectiveness, OGC sought to digitize and automate all data and processes within its reliability and integrity program. The company determined that Bentleys AssetWise Asset Reliability was the most cost-efficient technology solution that also allowed the entire framework to be managed and maintained within one platform. OGC began the digitalization process in 2017, working with Advisian, a top consulting firm, to implement AssetWise and support their advancing processes and practices to maximize asset value and maintain safe, secure, and reliable operations. The integrity framework features risk-based inspection workflow sequences based on American Petroleum Institute guidelines API 581 and supports an integrity database management system, including calculation of remaining asset life. Bentley's interoperable technology is integrated to operational technologies like OSIsoft PI, as well as enterprise asset management system SAP EAM for work execution. Integration of AssetWise asset performance management to SAP is an important part of OGC's digitalization strategy. OGC captures full, partial, and potential failure data from the maintenance work completed in SAP to update the reliability and integrity program in AssetWise. With this closed loop process, OGC achieves a living and continuously improving program. The asset performance management system serves as the basis for calculating overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), identifying bad actors, performing root cause analyses (RCA), and eliminating defects. Tracking key performance metrics in AssetWise dashboards has ensured adherence to process and has assisted in shifting the work culture to be more proactive and reliability-focused. The flexibility and interoperability of AssetWise Asset Reliability enabled OGC to consolidate and analyze all condition monitoring and operation maintenance data from manual and Internet of Things (IoT) sources, providing visibility into condition degradation trends and critical health parameters for proactive maintenance. Having a centralized system using AssetWise, OGC established digital workflows, streamlining all processes within its reliability and integrity program and accelerating accurate communication and equipment analysis to facilitate timely maintenance and optimize asset reliability. Automating Reliability and Integrity Processes OGC automated several reliability and integrity processes that were previously completed manually by a reliability engineer using Excel spreadsheets. With the software, all reliability-related analyses, approvals, and associated recommendations from bad-actor analysis, RCA, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), and risk-based inspections (RBI), are automatically performed. Now, the system is configured to calculate weekly reliability and availability of individual assets, in series and in parallel, based on an

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"The auto-alert notification in Bentley's AssetWise has been a key enabler, helping us to improve our reliability at a significant rate of about 9 percent a year." - Fahmi Reza, Head of Reliability and Condition Monitoring, Oman Gas Company Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Office Listings www.bentley.com/contact exponential reliability model. The software identifies the bad actor equipment and uses that information to perform RCA. The application also triggers alerts and emails recommendations and...

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