Ensuring Operational Readiness for Successful Turnarounds
Willard Martin
Director Outage Optimization
Suncor Energy
- Embedding the belief that the turnaround is a joint
operations, maintenance and technical activity
- the role of operations in the lead up to the event, the shutdown and safing of the assets and the restart of the assets after completion of the maintenance activities
- Establishing clear scope criteria during the preparation phase of the turnaround and using a ‘Risk Based Scope Review’ process to manage the execution requirements
- Determining when operations deliverables should be defined and organized
- Ensuring an effective ‘Pre Startup Safety Review’ is completed to ensure a successful startup of the assets