Introduction
The programme “Smart Monitoring of Drilling and Production Sites” develops professional practice in Oil and Gas Safety. It connects the subject with workplace challenges by examining existing evidence and practices and choosing methods appropriate to the organization and its available resources.
The learning progresses from production improvement, workflow, and waste reduction to occupational safety, risk assessment, and prevention, with practical work on the oil and gas value chain and operations, designing digital transformation and developing services, process safety, barriers, and management of change. Participants prepare outputs to support workplace application and review the quality and results of implementation.
Learning objectives
- Analyze a production flow and identify an intervention that improves quality, time, and resource utilization in an application related to “Smart Monitoring of Drilling and Production Sites”.
- Analyze an oil and gas value chain process and connect performance to reliability and safety.
- Assess digitization opportunities and define implementation requirements that improve a service or process.
- Analyze an operational hazard scenario and review barriers and change control responsibilities.
- Prepare a work risk assessment and prevention and response plan based on the hierarchy of controls.
Learning areas
1. Production Improvement, Workflow, and Waste Reduction
- Map a product or service flow from order to delivery, collecting data on cycle time, waiting, work in progress, and defects.
- Identify the constraint, bottlenecks, sources of waste, and rework, distinguishing improvement at one workstation from improvement in overall flow performance.
- Compare work balancing, planning, pull, and workplace organization alternatives, considering changes in demand, skills, and safety constraints.
- Design a small improvement pilot with an acceptance criterion and baseline, and define measures to maintain quality and prevent defects from passing between stages.
- Monitor productivity, quality, delivery compliance, and resources, documenting the improved work method and responsibilities for sustaining results. The application examines a case related to “Smart Monitoring of Drilling and Production Sites”.
2. The Oil and Gas Value Chain and Operations
- Understand the links between exploration, development, production, processing, and transportation, and define process boundaries, participants, and intended outputs.
- Read a training process diagram, identifying material and energy flows, measurement points, critical equipment, and their relationship to product quality.
- Analyze production, downtime, losses, and resource consumption data, distinguishing measurement problems from process or equipment problems.
- Define coordination requirements among operations, maintenance, safety, and contractors, and document handovers and changes under facility procedures.
- Prepare a process improvement proposal covering hypotheses, controls, resources, and review criteria, using a training case without unauthorized field operations.
3. Designing Digital Transformation and Developing Services
- Distinguish information digitization, step automation, and business model transformation, and identify the problem targeted by the digital intervention.
- Map the beneficiary journey, touchpoints, and repeated data requests, and identify opportunities for simplification before selecting technology.
- Analyze readiness across procedures, skills, data, and technical infrastructure, and document gaps and dependencies on existing systems.
- Specify solution, integration, access permission, usability, and accessibility requirements, and establish testable acceptance criteria.
- Design a limited-scope pilot with indicators for time, quality, and use, and define conditions for continuing, adjusting, or stopping.
4. Process Safety, Barriers, and Management of Change
- Identify sources of hazardous materials and energy and process boundaries, distinguishing process safety from individual occupational safety in the case presented.
- Analyze the sequence, causes, and consequences of a hazardous event, and identify preventive and mitigating barriers and evidence for verifying their readiness.
- Review work permits, isolation, and coordination among parties under facility procedures, and identify hold points requiring specialist approval.
- Prepare a change request identifying its rationale, risks, and effects on documents, training, and emergencies, with technical review before implementation.
- Conduct a tabletop exercise involving a hypothetical barrier failure or leak, and document escalation and response actions, lessons, and the subsequent verification plan.
5. Occupational Safety, Risk Assessment, and Prevention
- Identify task hazards, exposed people, and site conditions, gathering information from observations, records, and equipment instructions.
- Estimate the risk level and select appropriate controls from elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment.
- Review work procedures, permits, isolation, communication, and supervision according to the task, and define responsibility for stopping unsafe work.
- Analyze an incident or near miss using facts and evidence, examining systemic causes and failed controls beyond blaming individuals.
- Prepare a tabletop emergency exercise and an inspection, awareness, and follow-up plan, assigning field execution to qualified personnel under approved procedures.
Practical outputs
- A value stream map, bottleneck analysis, and production improvement plan.
- An oil operations process map, requirements matrix, and operating indicators.
- A digital transformation roadmap covering the beneficiary journey and implementation requirements.
- A register of risk scenarios and barriers, and an operational change review plan.
- A task risk assessment and an inspection, training, and response plan.
Who should attend
- Engineers, technicians, supervisors and operations staff whose work relates to the programme subject.
- Managers and teams working in oil and gas safety, according to their practical responsibilities.
- Professionals responsible for applying the outputs of “Smart Monitoring of Drilling and Production Sites” within their organizations.
Prerequisites
- Working familiarity with the programme field and the ability to discuss a professional case or challenge.
- Confirm the suitability of your experience and any specialist prerequisites with the Union before participation.
Conclusion
The programme “Smart Monitoring of Drilling and Production Sites” brings together concepts, case review and a practical application. Participants prepare steps that can be adapted to their responsibilities and organizational resources, with an indicator to follow application and review results after returning to work.
Participation arrangements and any special requests are specified in the confirmation issued by the Union.