Track 1 Session 7

12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Thursday, October 14, 2010

Improve Reliability and Asset Performance Through Condition-Based Monitoring

Business uses of hydrocarbon throughout its life cycle are widely spread, from oil wells to retail. All operations are very critical, need to be closely monitored and require a high level of plant/equipment uptime. Every step is important and critical; any down time will have an adverse impact on revenue.

Organizations are challenged to ensure margins by meeting stringent operational excellence goals to achieve reliability and safety targets. More and more organizations have started adapting reliability centric maintenance, condition-based monitoring and continuous improvement projects to meet the operational excellence goals.

Condition-based monitoring helps to improve productivity and optimize the maintenance planning process to maximize the production throughput of the critical assets and reduce the life cycle costs of assets performance.

Key Words: Upstream, Condition-Based Monitoring

Sanjay Joglekar and Sanil Kumar

Larson & Toubro Infotech Limited