Introduction to API RP 17N

Recommended Practice

Reliability
&
Technical Risk Management

Name David J Rainford,

BMT Energy, Houston TX
Date 7th April 2005
 Focus of Attention

• social licence to operate

• technology drivers to supply energy in the future
(including reliability of technical systems).
Reliability and diversity of supply.
• environmental impact left to our children
• acute and chronic hazards to people in the oil
industry
 How does Deepwater differ?

• Evolving products
• Low volume of products
• Project based “little standardization”
• Uncertain Operating Environment
• Intervention costs are increased/prohibitive
• Regional differences
• High Level of Growth
 Objective

• Provide a Framework to support

Operators, Contractors, and Suppliers
• Allow the development and implementation
of a reliability strategy and plan that meets
all the stakeholders’ requirements
throughout the full life-cycle.
• Culture Change
• Take it to the next level
 Goals

• Improve the Process to deliver consistent

bottom line growth, as technology moves to deeper
water and harsher environments and uses more novel
and complex systems.
• Better Understanding of failure mechanisms
and performance impacting behaviors.

• Identification of System weak points and

vulnerabilities.

• Systematic Improvement in organizational

capability to “design for reliability”.

• Enable Improvement in reliability, availability

and maintainability of systems and assets.
 What are the Benefits?

• Value Improvement
(Improved Revenue: Reduced Costs)
• Environment
• Safety
• Facilitates development of marginal projects
(business plan confidence) – social licence
• No one left behind
 Process - Changing the Bathtub
Curve

Early Life Wear out

failures Random failures Failures

Remove Remove
Removeor orMinimise Decommission
Breakdown rate

Remove Minimise Decommission

expensive
expensive foreseeable
foreseeablethrough
through before
before
Early
EarlyLife life
lifefailures wear
Life failures wearout
out
Failures
Failures

Subsea
Goal
Extend
ExtendAnticipated
AnticipatedField
FieldLife
Life

System Life cycle

 Requirements for Success

The Recommended Practice is made up of 3

components:-
• Asset
• Process (concept thru operation)
• Organization (staffing and supply chain)
The Overall drives the Detail
Imbalance of any One and They All Fail
Foundation for Success

Asset

Process

Organization
Requirements for Success

Asset Process

Organization
Requirements for Success

Asset Process

Organization
Requirements for Success
Requirements for Success
 Evolution

Subsea
MMS ISO
Growth

Reliability
API Deepstar Data

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 API RP 17N Development
Process
Ch. 1
Table of Ch. 2
Contents DRAFT
1) Ch. 3 API 17N RP
2)
3)
.
Objective… . Ch. 13
14)
API /
Ch. 14 Industry
Deepstar Review
Project Forum

API 17N RP
Issue 1

Deepstar & API API

 API RP 17N Key Elements

1. Scope 8. Procurement / Supply

Chain Management
2. Terms, Definitions, and
Abbreviations 9. Manufacturing

3. System and Interface 10. System Integration

Testing
Management
11. Installation
4. Reliability Management
12. Hoop-Up &
5. Feasibility and Concept Commissioning
Evaluation
13. Operations
6. Front End Engineering
14. Data Collection
7. Detailed Design Appendices
 MMS Message

• Fully support drive for this cultural change

• Want to avoid prescription
• Do before expertise lost from industry
• Recording and sharing failure # bad thing
• Cannot operate in a vacuum
• More empowering if industry does it
• Will help secure funding
 Technology Qualification

• Included in Management Section - activities to

create technology “ready” for field application
• Refers to DnV A203 guidance on new technology
Some issues include:-
• Identification of technology opportunities
• Evaluation of risk versus reward - motivation
• Risk based approach to new technology
qualification
• Risk based technology introduction program
 Incentivisation
Procurement Organization
• Targets and performance goal setting
• Contracting relationships
• Vendor qualification
• Supply chain management & feedback
• Motivation and supplier incentivisation
Vendor/Supplier Organization
• Sub-vendor qualification
• Feed forward to Procurement Organization (Supply chain
management participation)
• Risk sharing and performance improvement motivation
 API RP 17N Organization

API RP 17N
Steering Committee

Marketing
Group

Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub

Committee A Committee B Committee C Committee D Committee E Committee F Committee G

Feasibility Procurement Deepstar

Detail Design Manufacturing Installation
& & Data Collection
Reliability Concept Mgt Supply Chain
&
Interface Mgt
Front End Hook Up
SIT
Engineering &
Design Commissioning

Operations
 DeepStar / API RP 17N
Committee Membership

• DeepStar
• API
• MMS
• Petroleum Companies
• Manufacturers
• Consultant Companies
• OTRC (Texas A&M and University of Texas)
 Status of API RP 17N

The Past
• API approval Mar 2003
• DeepStar Approval Funding April 2003
• First Industry Workshop June 2003
• API / ISO alignment meeting London Jan 2004
• Joint API / ISO meeting Houston Feb 2004
• Publish second draft Feb 2004
• Subcommittee Forming Workshop May 2004
 Status of API RP 17N

Publish Contents draft Feb 2004

Subcommittee Forming Workshop May 2004
All Sub-Committees now engaged Dec 2004
Sub-committee A progress (Management) 60%
Sub-committee B progress (FEED & Ops) 20%
Sub-committee C progress (Detailed Design) 70%
Sub-committee D progress (Procurement) 10%
Sub-committee E progress (Manufacture) 20%
Sub-committee F progress (Installation) 20%
Sub-committee G progress (Data Collection) 60%

Assemble & Edited by Sub-committee A April 2005

Document Distributed to Industry June 2005
Incorporate Industry Comments Aug 2005
Publish Dec 2005
 Status of API RP 17N

The Future
• Chapters Written by Committees
• Assembled & Edited by Steering Comm. May 2005
• Document Distributed to Industry June 2005
• Incorporate Industry Comments Aug 2005
• Provide to API Dec 2005
 RP 17N Steering Committee

John Allen - VetcoGray Chairman

Mark Siegmund - BP Co-chair
Don Wells - ConocoPhillips
Eric Waguespack – ChevronTexaco
Luis Bensimon - KMG
Charles Burton - Unocal
Jean Pierre Signoret - Total
James Papas – Devon
Nilo Jorje - Petrobras
 Contacts

• Professor John Strutt (Cranfield University)

Document Consultant and Champion

• David Rainford (BMT Energy)

Coordinating Editor and Secretary

For a draft copy of the Current Draft contact:

David Rainford djrainford@scimar.com
 DeepStar / API
API RP 17N

Questions?