Maintenance Management System for Upstream Operations in Oil and Gas Industry Case Study

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 36 2009

Maintenance Management System for Upstream Operations in Oil and Gas Industry: Case Study

paper explores the plant maintenance management system that has been used by giant oil and gas company in Malaysia. The system also called as PMMS used to manage the upstream operations for more than 100 plants of the case study company. Moreover, from the observations, focus group discussion with PMMS personnel and application through simulation (SAP R/3), the paper reviews the step-by-step approach and the elements that required for the PMMS. The findings show that the PMMS integrates the overall business strategy in upstream operations that consist of asset management, work management and performance management. In addition, PMMS roles are to help operations personnel organize and plan their daily activities, to improve productivity and reduce equipment downtime and to help operations management analyze the facilities and create performance, and to provide and maintain the operational effectiveness of the facilities.

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Keywords—Maintenance, Oil and Gas Industry, Upstream
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I. INTRODUCTION

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AINTENANCE is a combination of all technical, administrative, and managerial actions during the life cycle of an item intended to keep it in or restore it to a state in which it can perform the required function [1]. Previously, maintenance has been supposed as an expense account with performance measures developed to track direct costs or surrogates such as the headcount of tradesmen and the total duration of forced outages during a specified period. Fortunately, this perception is changing [2,3]. Nowadays, maintenance is acknowledged as a major contributor to the performance and profitability of business organizations [4,5]. Maintenance managers therefore explore every opportunity to improve on profitability and performance as well as achieve cost savings for the organization [6].

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