Officials who took part in the RasGas reliability workshop at the Ras Laffan complex.
DOHA: RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) recently organised a five-day workshop on reliability sustainment and improvement at its premises in Ras Laffan.
The event was held to foster and facilitate excellence and continuous improvement in reliability and volume performance, the company said in a statement.
It also aimed to provide RasGas and its shareholders with an opportunity to get insight into the status of reliability improvement plans and issues through management processes as well as equipment and technology issues, competencies and capabilities and to share best practices.
The interactive forum focused on enhancing individual participant’s skills and collective organisational knowledge, with presentations, quality discussions, field visits and breakthrough actions identification.
“People are the major contributors to high reliability, which results in good safety performance and process safety critical to RasGas’ success,” said CEO Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi.
“We always focus on reliability as it safeguards RasGas’ reputation as a reliable supplier of liquefied natural gas,” he said, adding RasGas Train-5 marked 99.78 percent reliability in 2012 — one of the best in the world.
President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar Inc Bart Cahir said risk management with focus on equipment, people and processes is fundamental for high reliability. He praised RasGas Operations Group’s effort to ensure reliability and integrity of these world-class assets.
Hamad Al Ejji from the Best Practice Technical Committee of Qatar Petroleum said reliability is a very important aspect to achieve maximum availability.
“Reliability can be achieved using many methods but, most importantly, managing them will help us reach our goals more efficiently. Sufficient reliability structure will result in more benefits and less gaps to overcome,” he said.
Facilitators said the key to reliability success is people with experience, right competencies, empowerment and good judgement. They suggested reliability be managed like safety with a systematic approach for sustainment. The notion that strong leadership is a critical success factor for reliability focus, especially in the ‘prevent, detect, respond and recover’ mindset, was also highlighted.
More than 100 delegates, including RasGas shareholders Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil RasGas Inc, Qatargas representatives, global operations managers and experts from ExxonMobil’s functional headquarters in Houston, Texas, attended.
RasGas was represented by CEP, Operations Group, Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Group and Management Services Group. Visits to RasGas facilities were also organised as part of the workshop. The Peninsula
