Turnaround Organization & Optimization

OTAU-EN-P

Who should attend?

  • This course provides an overall strategy to achieve the main turnaround objectives: safety, deadline and budget compliance.
Public :
  • Engineers and staff (from maintenance, purchasing, project organization, and operation) involved in turnaround management for refining or petrochemical plants.

Level :Skilled

Prerequisite :
  • Provide evidence of a professional experience of at least 1 month, related to the concerned field.

Course Content

  • TURNAROUND REQUIREMENTS - Duration : 1 Day

      • Turnaround justification: local regulation, maintenance, projects, plant availability.
      • Turnaround frequency and objectives: schedule, safety compliance, duration and cost.
      • Typical data used for a turnaround: economic incentives, scope definition.
      • Steering committee, organization and Key Performance Indicators. Financial breakdown and cost estimate.
  • TURNAROUND PREPARATION - Duration : 2 Days

      • Detailed scope, work-list analysis.
      • Work preparation: tasks sequencing, procedures, long-term material and spare parts orders.
      • Critical operation identification and preparation.
      • Cost estimation.
      • Scheduling: overview, detailed planning and milestones.
      • Safety plan - Logistics.
      • Scope challenge: internal and external review.
      • Team building techniques.
      • Contracting policy: clear understanding of the different types of contracts: lump sum, reimbursable, unit rates. Purchasing plan.
      • Contracting procedure.
  • SUPERVISION OF TURNAROUND ACTIVITIES - Duration : 2 Days

      • Planning and quality control.
      • Cost control activities during works.
      • Management of changes and contingencies.
      • Mechanical completion, commissioning and start-up activities: acceptances certificates; organization.
      • Unplanned and additional works management.
      • Reporting and turnaround assessment.
      • Occupational health and safety. Lock-out/tag-out procedures.
      • Risks dealing with hot works, lifting, works at heights, scaffoldings, electrical, piping, high pressure cleaning, work in confined spaces.
      • Job safety analysis. Prevention plans and work permits: regulation, education, constraints. Responsibility of the personnel.

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
  • Identify the steps of a rigorous methodology in preparing shutdown work,
  • List the points to be taken into account in the establishment, monitoring and analysis of a shutdown schedule,
  • Specify organizational and supervisory elements that make shutdown work effective,
  • Explain basic safety rules to be followed during shutdown work.

Ways & Means

  • Numerous applications and cases studies.
  • An interactive delivery method that draws on participants' experiences.
  • Trainees mini-projects based on a standard plant.

Learning assessment

  • Knowledge assessment quiz.

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Coordinator :IFP Training trainer (permanent or contracted) having a good expertise and/or experience of the related topics, trained to adult teaching methods, and whose competencies are kept up-to-date.

To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding. Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com