Track 2 Session 7
1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 2008

Instrument Reliability Improvement Program at a Gas Processing Plant

This presentation describes the implementation of instrument base layer improvement to support plant operational excellence at the plants operation division, the gas processing plant, Complex-A, at PETRONAS Gas Bhd.

• Address Operational Performance Improvement (OPI) and Value Improvement Project (VIP) Issues - Identification of the OPI and VIP Instrumentation and Control issues, which became the bottleneck for OPI & VIP progress.
• Fit for Optimization - High percentage auto controller to support Advanced Process Controller (APC) to perform at its optimum.
• Plant Reliability - Maintenance has direct focus to resolve the outstanding instrument based layer; reduction of reworks and priority 1 and 2 notifications; and reduction of unplanned plant breakdowns due to instrumentation issues.
• Align Maintenance Strategy - Condition based monitoring as it identifies and signals the problematic controllers before failures; enhance PM vs. REM ratio maintenance to achieve PM% world class standard; and reduction of maintenance cost overall. (REM maintenance cost is higher than PM maintenance cost.)

Key Words: Data gathering, analysis, root cause analysis & troubleshooting