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Refinery operations are at the core of the Oil Supply Chain and have a big
impact on the recovery of the available margin. Poor availability/reliability
and high operating costs will erode the margin capture.
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Reliability, or minimising downtime, has become the key refinery performance
measure, after safety. Balancing production (throughput and margin) against
protection (safety, plant integrity and reliability) is a difficult but necessary task.
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Refineries are complex,
technical businesses and
operational performance is
influenced by a number of
factors, many of them relate
to the hardware that a refinery
has installed such as size,
configuration, design,
complexity and the
sophistication of the
instrumentation and control
systems.
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Given the hardware, how it is utilised determines the actual margin captured.
How do we understand, measure and manage the integrity, reliability and overall
refinery performance? Although performance statistics can give good insights into
why some refineries perform better than others, it is important to look behind the
numbers, to the practices that produced them. Any refinery improvement plan must
address the practices not the performance measures.
This is where PETROQUANTUM can add value.
Our Refinery Management FrameworkTM (RMF) provides us with a
platform to better understand how well the refinery business processes, systems and practices
are established and how well they operate. The Refinery Management Framework
is a complex model of the processes, systems and practices
for the modern business environment. The RMF
is essentially a set of three complementary models that we use to compare specific
and generic refinery management and operating practices against international best practices.
The RMF has a modular design and can be used across the whole
refinery or on specific target areas, in conjunction with established performance measures.
The RMF is also used to guide the development and implementation
of refinery performance improvement projects — influencing behaviour, practice and performance.
The Refinery Management Framework gives us a sound,
consistent and structured platform to assess refinery performance and help refineries
improve — through their people. Specific services we provide to support
operational excellence include:
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- Assessment of Refinery practices using the RMF:
- Refining Business Management Model
- Supply Chain Management Model
- Asset Management Model
- Self-assessment Models:
- Refining Business Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Asset Management
- Turnaround Management
- Turnaround Management and Optimisation
- Due Diligence Reviews
- Insurance or pre-insurance Risk Assessments
- Refinery and Operations Organisational Reviews
- Operational Safety Management Reviews
- Planning and Scheduling Practice and Systems Review
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Click on the links to see a more detailed explanation of the
RMF models
and the self assessments.
Refinery Managers are finding it difficult and expensive to develop and maintain
the fluctuating level of specialist equipment and people needed in the modern
competitive environment, particularly as technology becomes more complex,
process equipment becomes more reliable and turnaround intervals increase.
PETROQUANTUM
can assist the refinery manage the risks associated with this difficult
environment by providing the benefit of their experience and knowledge along with
innovative techniques and tools.
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