Shutdowns Superconference - Agenda
Immediate and Easy Changes to Implement During your Next Shutdown in Order to Reduce
Your Costs and Down Time through BP’s TAR Tracker
Stephen J. McIntosh
Planning Team Leader
BP—United Kingdom
Steve McIntosh is an international Shutdown expert. He has travelled the world, implementing, sharing and educating colleagues
about his progressive Shutdown approaches. In what Steve views as easy steps, find out how his TAR Tracker has been implemented
globally to reduce down time and money spent on Shutdowns.
In this session, you will learn about:
- Implementing specific tools to improve your safety and quality assuranceMethods to increase the speed of execution
- Utilizing and applying completion tools to create easier and more accessible data structure
- Executing more effective data export from the planning application to the TAR tracke
- Reap the positive results of bar coding jobs and learn how much time and money can be save
- Exploring the positive results which include a significant reduction in Tidying up and fixes’ after a completed Shutdown
Do As Little As Possible: Challenging Everything You Thought You Knew about Setting Your
Shutdowns Scope
James Reyes-Picknell
President
Conscious Asset Management
The biggest challenge for a Shutdown is staying in scope. Everyone involved with a Shutdown knows how easy it is to find more work,
and as you increase the work load, you also increase your down time.
In this session that will present arguments as to why you should do as little as possible in a Shutdown, hear:
- Details regarding the huge probability of a forced outage after a Shutdown
- Why trends in the Shutdown community should be avoided
- Examining why the more work you do, the larger the probability is for costly mistakes
- Understanding why you should never add work to a Shutdown that doesn’t absolutely need to be done
Working Towards a Common Goal: How to Ensure Successful Project and Turnaround Integration
Chris McKay
Turnaround Coordinator
Agrium
Grant Epp
Project Supervisor
Agrium
- Managing the cultural and procedural differences between the two teams
- Important methods to improve project and maintenance relations.
- Examining different elements that need to be considered such as planning, scheduling, and budget, in order to achieve overall success
- Best methods to integrate project and maintenance work into one schedule
- How to get buy-in and have everyone see and understand the big picture
Don’t Re-invent the Wheel: Gain the Maximum Benefits Possible By Optimizing Your Post Partum Debrief
George Van Dorp
Vice President, People Services
Quinn Contracting Limited
- Innovative ways to document work and retain knowledge and lessons learned
- Who should be providing feedback for the debrief and who is responsible for reviewing it?
- What documentation formula should you be using?
- What areas of the Shutdown should be included?
- How to avoid losing invaluable lessons for the next shutdown
Examining the Rose Committee’s Past, the Outlook for its Future, and its Goals for the Shutdown Community
Frank Engli
Chairman, Rose Committee, Invited Executive
Construction Services Council
Bob Collins
Construction Sector Council
In this session, hear from the chairman of the Rose Committee who will explore:
- The history and the necessity of the Rose Committee
- What are the Rose Committee’s mandates?
- What are the circumstances surrounding the creation of the Rose Committee?
- How is the Rose Committee able to track Shutdowns?
- How is the Rose Committee moving forward and what is the outlook?
- Examining the engagement of the Construction Sector Council to track Turnarounds through “Labour Market Link”
Syncrude CanadaExamining the Health and Safety Association Network and the Innovative and
Effective Ways that Alberta is Standardizing Safety
Mike Joyce
Executive Director
Health and Safety Association Network (HSAN)
Health and Safety Association Network (HSAN) is a non-profit organization made up of industry owner groups, employer groups, labour groups, and industry associations from Alberta. HSAN is responsible for identifying and endorsing training standards with a goal being the elimination of repetitive training.
- Overview of HSAN
- How effective is safety standardization?
- Examples of some of the safety certification HSAN provides
- Will the HSAN system be extended to include all of Canada?
- Estimates of time and money saved through the elimination of retraining workers
- How does HSAN work with unions?
- Examining some of the tangible benefits that HSAN provides
Implementing a Best-In Class Outage Management Process for Oil Sands
Ken Yurkiw
Manager, Turnaround Process Development
Suncor Energy
John Crager, PMP
Senior Consultant
AP-Networks
The Suncor Fort McMurray site is one of Alberta’s largest bitumen upgrading facilities and executes some of the industry’s most complex and challenging Shutdowns. This case study will provide:
- An overview of some of the challenges faced by the site
- Details regarding the efforts used to implement an updated turnaround work process based on benchmarking best-in class performers across industry
- Managing various stakeholders from all key site functional disciplines,
- Examining the technical support specialists throughout the enterprise, including tools and job aids
- Exploring the initiatives that have worked to significantly improve planning, preparation, and execution of Shutdowns
It Is All About Wrench Time: How Effective Planning and Scheduling Can Help Keep Your Workers
on the Tools
Kevin Antram
Asset Management Solutions (COG) – Chemicals, Oil and Gas
Matrikon Inc.
The best methods to define a successful Shutdown: Key performance indicators you need to be aware of
- Optimal planning: The only way to develop a quality schedule is to start with a quality plan
- Techniques to enhance your scheduling: Understanding the difference between driving versus monitoring
- Performance Measurements: What you need to look for, track and manage
- The most common Shutdown pitfalls: What are they and how can you avoid them?
Applying TAR Tracker Principals and Best Practices to Complete Your Shutdown, Under Budget
and Ahead of Schedule
Stephen McIntosh
Planning Team Leader
BP—United Kingdom
In December 2008, BP was about to enter the commissioning stage of a large project in Papua, New Guinea when they discovered several Aphacon Valves were leaking. A decision was made by BP to replace 1605 valves with new ones in the shortest time possible. The construction team determined that they required a Shutdown specialist and Stephen McIntosh was brought in to manage this change out.
The results were nothing short of impressive. In this case study, hear how TAR principles were applied and as a result, the Shutdown was completed ahead of schedule.
Respecting Down Time—the Most Critical Element of Your Shutdown
Frank Engli
Turnaround Manager
Imperial Oil Ltd
In this case study, hear how Imperial Oil’s top priority is to stay on schedule. Learn
- How Imperial is able to get their facilities up and running with respect paid to the scheduled down time
- Learn from the effective inflexibility of Imperial’s work window and how they are able to stay on track
- Examining how additional work found is postponed to respect the down time
- Best practices to meet the production schedule
The Canadian Model for Drug and Alcohol Testing: New Rules for New Methods
- Examining the reliability of oral fluid testing to detect impairment
- Understanding the limitations of urine testing
- What types of substances can be detected through oral fluid testing?
- Exploring some of the legal issues that Imperial Oil was confronted with regarding drug and alcohol testing
- Human rights legislation versus upholding a collective agreement