Applied Root Cause Analysis Methods on Oil and Gas Facilities Training

• Systems Failure Analysis
• Systems failure analysis Introduction
• What is the problem?
• Defining the problem
• Production optimisation
• Clearly define problem and analysis boundaries
• Fault tree analysis introduction
• Design of experiments and systems failure analysis
• Nature Of cause
• Identify, collect, and evaluate relevant data
• Human and system reliability
• Analysis pitfalls
• Team assignment
• Select/tailor analysis tools and techniques
• Corrective action
• Conduct interviews and small-group brainstorming
• sessions
• Identify major contributors to problem occurrence
• Tools & Techniques – Flowcharting
• Develop ranked list and rationale for potential root
• causes
• Document and review results
• Evaluate each major contributor using a hierarchical
• Structure of root cause categories
• Allocate performance measure losses to root cause
• Categories
• Types of oil and gas processing facilities
• Typical processing facility block flow diagrams
• System trouble versus Equipment-Specific trouble
• Fundamentals of root cause analysis and methodology
• Identifying the best solution
• Cost/profitability, safety,

Day 1
• Introductions
• Safety Briefing covering muster procedures.
• RCA course outcomes
• What is Root Cause Analysis
• Why do we carry out Root Cause Analysis
• When do we carry out Root Cause Analysis
• Systems failure analysis Introduction
• Defining the problem
• Types of Oil Gas Production Facilities :

PowerPoint: Oil and Gas overview
Oral Quiz to assess delegate’s level of understanding

Day 2
• Types of Incidents
• Production Optimization
• Problem and Analysis Boundaries
• Fault Tree Analysis Introduction
• Design of Experiments
• Nature of the cause
• Identify, collect, and evaluate relevant data
• Process Flow Diagrams PFDs

Document: The Accident Investigation Process
Video: Design of Experiments.
Video: Fault Tree Analysis FTA
Oral Quiz to assess delegate’s level of understanding

Day 3
• Human and system reliability
• Analysis pitfalls
• Team assignment
• Select/tailor analysis tools and techniques
• Why Tree
• Fishbone diagram analysis
• Pareto analysis
• Types of Oil Gas Production Facilities : Todays topic FPSOs

Video: Root Cause Analysis Course – 5 Whys and Fishbone Diagram
Video: FPSO Production, Offloading, Billy Pugh personnel basket
Syndicate activity: 5 Whys, Fishbone and Pareto Analysis tool practise
Oral Quiz to assess delegate’s level of understanding

Day 4
• Corrective action
• Conduct interviews and small-group brainstorming
• Tools & Techniques – Flowcharting
• Develop ranked list and rationale for potential root Causes
• Document and review results
• Evaluate each major contributor using a hierarchical structure of root cause categories
• Allocate performance measure losses to root cause categories
• System trouble versus Equipment-Specific trouble
• Fundamentals of root cause analysis and methodology

Syndicate activity: Concord aircraft RCA
Video: Concorde — Root Cause Analysis — Cause Mapping
Oral Quiz to assess delegate’s level of understanding

Day 5
• Identifying the best solution
• Cost/ profitability, safety,
• RCA complete Syndicate exercise ‘Titanic’
• Review and question / answer
• Written course feedback
• Award Certificates.

Syndicate activity: Titanic RCA
Video: Root Cause Analysis – Titanic