Assure integrity and optimise asset performance

Our expertise applied Oil & gas refinery Background • Robust RBI programme required to reduce both the risk in its operating units and inspection costs.

LR Solution • Implemented our RBMI* software solution – migrating a time-based fixed equipment inspection programme to a RBMI* programme, completing data collection, corrosion study, risk analysis and RBI inspection plans over 2,300 assets. * RBMI has been superseded by Axxim™

Result • Client benefited from risk reduction of over 65% which translates to >$100millions turnaround savings and inspection cost reductions, due to longer intervals between shutdowns, 30% reduction in intrusive inspections and 40% reduction in piping Thickness Measurement Location (TML), without compromising integrity.

• The ROI yielded a payback in less than 12 months.

Oil & gas refinery Background • Client relief system documentation was not always updated to reflect changes to operating streams and conditions.

• As a result, requirement for the relief systems needed to be revalidated, to ensure they would be able to handle any potential catastrophic overpressure events.

• Relief valves are the last lines of defence, in any facility’s safety system, against overpressure events.

LR Solution • Design philosophy outlining relief study methodologies, robust work procedures, gap identification and risk assessment.

• Implemented continuous improvement reviews to achieve consistency of relief studies across all process units and rigorous 100% internal QA/QC procedures.

Result • Saved the client from significant cost and profitability implications, avoiding the alternative of taking the platform off station to dry dock for repairs.

Result • Our specialist process engineers improved the safety of the facility, ensuring compliance with Process Safety Management (PSM) audits, through revalidation of 2,500 relief valves, spread across 30 process and utility units.

• Minimal disruption to normal plant operations.

Background • Seven-year old plant with no prior piping inspection programme.

Floating production installation

Result • RBI Inspection plan created that resulted in cost savings while assuring integrity − RBI Plan: Inspection locations: 1,500 Covering internal, damage mechanisms and Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) − Traditional Plan: TML’s: 16,000 Covering internal corrosion only • Initial cost savings: over $500,000.

• Ongoing cost savings (15 years): over $500,000.

Background • Structural defect inside the hull cross brace of their floating production installation, which had propagated over 70% through wall of a horizontal brace section that sits subsea between ballast columns.

• Due to the severity and location of the defect, external repair work was required as soon as possible.

• Failure of the brace could have been catastrophic for structural integrity – may have resulted in loss of the facility and potentially significant loss of life.

Ethylene plant

LR Solution • Establish optimised risk based inspection piping programme that meets regulatory requirements in a safe and profitable manner.

• Initial data collection of design, process, and corrosion data.

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Europe Lloyd’s Register Group Limited 71 Fenchurch Street London EC3M 4BS United Kingdom T +44 (0)20 7709 9166 F +44 (0)20 7423 2258 Lloyd’s Register Kingswells Causeway Prime Four Business Park Kingswell, Aberdeen United Kingdom AB15 8PU T +44 (0)1224 398398 Lloyd’s Register KP van der Mandelelaan 41a Rotterdam 3062 MB Netherlands T +31 (0)10 2014200 F +31 (0)10 4117580

LR Solution • Repaired the cross brace crack onsite.

• Following NDT examinations, ensured there were no weld defects.

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Middle East Lloyd’s Register Festival Office Tower, Suite 2001 Dubai Festival City Al Rebat Street Dubai United Arab Emirates T +971 4 701 4160 / 4100 F +971 4 701 4139 Americas Lloyd’s Register North America, Inc. 1330 Enclave Parkway, Suite 200 Houston TX 77077 United States of America T +1 (1)281 675 3100 F +1 (1)281 675 3199 Asia Lloyd’s Register Level 28, Naza Tower, Platinum Park No. 10, Persiaran KLCC Kuala Lumpur 50088 Malaysia T +60 3 2633 3001

Assure integrity and optimise asset performance.

A guide to Asset Integrity Services

Lloyd’s Register is a trading name of Lloyd’s Register Group Limited and its subsidiaries. For further details please see www.lr.org/entities © Lloyd’s Register Group Limited 2018

Asset Integrity Services Our risk-based approach to asset integrity helps clients cost effectively and safely manage the integrity, performance and reliability of their facilities and assets.

Lloyd’s Register applies its expert knowledge and independence to help clients and regulators design, construct and operate their capital intensive assets and businesses to their highest levels of safety and performance.

Leaders in Asset Integrity We help you manage the integrity of your asset effectively – improving safety, maximising operability, improving profitability and increasing the life expectancy of your asset.

Unplanned and unbudgeted outages will be reduced and the cost of sustaining the integrity of your asset will be kept to a minimum.

Our risk based operational integrity and inspection management approach is accompanied by our leading integrity engineering expertise, to help you safely optimise your business performance.

Our commitment to applied technology, asset performance management and delivery expertise is underpinned by our leading software solutions that help you optimise inspection and maintenance schedules, increase equipment reliability and reduce costs.

We provide you with the basis for informed decision making and asset integrity assurance.

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Benefits of a robust Asset Management strategy: • Improve plant, asset and equipment availability and uptime • Identify critical assets and equipment • Eliminate activities that don’t fulfill safety or corporate objectives • optimise inspection, mitigation and repair costs • reduce system and equipment failures • safely extend your asset operations beyond original design life • a systematic, managed approach to repairs and replacements • reduce environmental risk • confidence in the safety of your asset • demonstrate compliance with standards, regulations and legislation, including ISO55001, API and ASME.

95% reduction Between 80 to 95% reduction in failure risks.

Expertise applied at every stage of your asset’s lifecycle

Improve your asset’s reliability and equipment integrity. Optimise your inspection and maintenance regimes.

Asset integrity is vitally important at every phase of the asset lifecycle. Loss of integrity can lead to loss of life, loss of production or total loss of the asset.

50% reduction Achieve 50% cost saving for inspection and maintenance of assets.

60% reduction From 30 to 60% reduction in opened equipment items during shutdown intervals.

90% reduction 60-90% fewer inspection points with Axxim™, compared to a traditional API.

20% increase

1 DESIGN

2 BUILD

3 OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE

Introduce Asset Management at the beginning to optimise integrity.

Address and resolve potential issues early in the asset’s life.

Identify anomalies early, before it becomes a problem.

We assist during the construction phase to ensure the technical and structural integrity of your asset.

We develop and implement monitoring and mitigation measures to help your asset achieve maximum safe life.

Where it is too late for prevention, fit for purpose analysis, integrity monitoring and corrosion management measures can help avoid premature repair or replacement and unplanned shutdowns.

4 LIFE EXTENSION

5 LATE LIFE MANAGEMENT

6 DECOMMISSIONING

Extend the life of your asset by addressing threats to its integrity.

Eliminate unnecessary activities to reduce costs.

Decommissioning is a costly process, carried out at the very point in the asset lifecycle when revenue is at a minimum. We assist in the development and management of decommissioning programmes – identifying, managing and resolving risk through services including residual life assessments, cleanliness assessments, lifting equipment assessments and review of asset management processes for the shutdown phase.

We help you incorporate factors that will influence integrity at concept or design stage, providing expertise during the Front End Engineering Design stage (FEED).

This will extend the life of the asset beyond those built using more traditional methods.

Service Portfolio We offer an unrivalled portfolio of Asset Integrity, Asset Management and Asset Information services to the oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical industries, from oil fields and pipelines to refineries, power stations and manufacturing.

Our services cover every stage of the asset lifecycle, from concept through to decommissioning: • Asset management system development • operational integrity management strategy development • inspection planning and management • implement and manage effective outsourcing approaches • assessment and reporting.

Engineering Services: • Fitness for service assessments • failure analysis and investigation • welding procedure reviews • corrosion management and materials engineering • life extension studies • lifting engineering • relief system optimisation services • process safety services • process engineering services • Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) studies • Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) • Materials selection review • Well Integrity Management • Pipeline Integrity Management • Structural Integrity Management.

Asset Information Services: • Axxim™: our asset optimisation software solution, provides you with a single resource to identify critical assets, increase equipment reliability and determine optimum risk based inspection approach; embedding decision making techniques within your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) System • Advice on third party information and data management software • System implementation and maintenance • Data management services.

RTAMO™ Our Real Time Adaptive Maintenance Optimisation solution, RTAMO™, is a software enabled service which allows you to eliminate unnecessary maintenance tasks, and reduce costs by 30%, helping you minimise backlogs and safely extend asset life.

As an asset approaches the end of its planned or design life we help you make informed decisions on the feasibility of extending its life.

We assess the current condition, the safety and environmental implications of continuing to operate, and the cost and practicality of any upgrade work.

Late life asset management is crucial to ensuring continued safe and profitable operation. We assist with bridging the gap between late life operations and cessation of production, helping you reduce costs by optimising maintenance and inspection schedules, evaluating operating models and identifying and reducing activities that don’t fulfil profit or safety objectives.

Realise up to a 20% increase in equipment uptime.

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