As oil and gas prices decline, the pressure to manage equipment life-cycle costs has intensified. Maintenance teams must now maintain high standards of safety, reliability, and availability while working with reduced budgets. This Maintenance Planning & Work Control in the Oil & Gas training course offers practical methods and tools tailored to the industry to help reduce equipment-related expenses effectively.
The training focuses on essential strategies, procedures, and best practices that support the reliable and long-term performance of physical assets through efficient planning and maintenance control.
Key Topics Covered:
- How oil and gas assets deteriorate and fail over time
- Classifying assets based on criticality to prioritize maintenance work
- Understanding common failure patterns and performance issues
- Aligning organizational structures with maintenance tasks
- Developing and managing effective work schedules
- Using proactive tools and techniques to lower maintenance costs
- Conducting failure analysis to target cost-saving opportunities
- Improving resource use through better work management
By the end of this Maintenance Planning & Work Control in the Oil & Gas training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the failure processes of oil and gas equipment
- Identify maintenance tasks that extend asset life
- Select suitable maintenance strategies for different assets
- Schedule maintenance tasks effectively
- Manage time, budget, and scope during maintenance execution
- Measure maintenance performance with appropriate indicators
This training course combines instructor-led presentations with group discussions. It also includes real-life case studies, examples, and hands-on exercises. All participants receive course materials for future reference and continued learning, supporting long-term knowledge retention and application.
Your organization will:
- Understand key drivers of maintenance costs
- Focus efforts on the most cost-impacting activities
- Enhance equipment lifespan and performance
- Improve monitoring and control of maintenance tasks
Participants will gain the ability to:
- Recognize how equipment fails and wears out
- Understand the cost implications of poor reliability
- Apply the right maintenance approaches to boost reliability
- Manage maintenance scope, time, and cost effectively
- Evaluate maintenance using the correct performance metrics
This Maintenance Planning & Work Control in the Oil & Gas training course is designed for professionals in maintenance, reliability, and engineering, as well as those in leadership and support roles. It is highly beneficial for:
- Maintenance Planners
- Supervisors
- Engineers and Reliability Engineers
- Maintenance and Operations Team Leaders
- Maintenance and Engineering Managers
Day One: Maintenance Types and Asset Pairing
- Definitions of Maintenance, Asset Management and Reliability
- Material failure and degradation
- Preventive-Predictive Maintenance
- Reliability Centered maintenance and the failure rate mathematics
- Life cycle costs and maintenance
Day Two: Planning –WBS-OBS
- Work Order system (WO) for Planning
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBs)
- Organization Breakdown structure (OBS)
- Materials planning
- Workforce planning
Day Three: Scheduling Principles
- Programmed Preventive Maintenance Intervals
- Condition-based Maintenance Intervals
- Optimization of General Overhauls and maintenance period in the life cycle of Plants
- Critical Path Method (CPM) –PERT analysis
Day Four: Control of Time, Costs and Work Quality
- Monitor time domain using Gantt charts
- Techniques to Keep under budget
- Contingency and Management reserve
- Acceptance of work scope according to ISO/API standards
Day Five: Maintenance Planning and Work Control Performance Analysis
- Management of information flow
- Performance Indicators
- Workload Performance Indicators
- Planning Performance Indicators
- Effectiveness and cost Performance Indicators
- Maintenance data archiving
- Reports to management
