PRAC Asset Integrity Workshop

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PRACAsset Integrity Workshop

• April 24, 2007

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Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada (PRAC)

• Who are we?
• Federally incorporated not-for-profit
• Public-private partnership 35 members
• Regional in scope global in reach
• What do we do?
• Facilitate, broker and fund petroleum RD
• Focused on member research priorities
• Match needs with research capabilities

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• Facilitating the safe and environmentally-sound
  development of Atlantic Canadas petroleum
  resources through research and technology
  development

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PRAC Activities

• Funding for oil and gas research
• Research grants
• Transfer to usability grants
• Leveraging NSERC and others
• Project facilitation
• Brokering
• JIPs
• Project management and contracts
• Outreach and research dissemination

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PRACs Collaborative Model
Public Interest
Private/Projects
Board of Directors
Research Advisory Committee
Needs
Community of Interest-1
PRAC
COI-2
COI-3
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Delivery
Calls for Proposals
Transfer to Usability Grants
JIPs
Institutions
SMEs
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Workshop Background
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Atlantic Energy Roundtable

• Federal (4) and Provincial Ministers (3)
• Senior industry representatives EP and supply
  service companies
• Industrial Opportunities Working Group
  established RD Subcommittee
• Determine priority areas for research
• Collaborative research models
• Establish communities of interest

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Priority Research Areas
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Asset Integrity

• Ability of the asset to perform its required
  function effectively and efficiently while
  safeguarding life and the environment. It
  involves optimization of operating costs by
  improving the reliability and safety of
  production, gathering processing facilities.
  The goal is to ensure operations at top quartile
  efficiency and cost.

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Objectives of Asset Integrity

• Longer asset life
• Higher reliability and availability
• Optimizing production
• Reduced operating costs (life cycle costs
  minimized)
• Reduced health, safety and environmental risks

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Asset Integrity Issues

• Asset integrity management processes
• Risk and risk assessment
• Best practices in management processes
• The role of EPCs
• Life of field costing
• IT support
• Technical
• Corrosion, scale and protective coatings
• Materials engineering
• Fatigue
• Flow assurance
• Inspection and testing

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Workshop Objectives

• Provide overview of international experience
  what is the current state of play?
• Asset integrity issues being faced in Atlantic
  Canada
• their significance locally and globally
• need for focused research
• Overview of specific research capabilities,
  activities and interests in the region what are
  the existing strengths?
• Enable a constructive dialogue leading to the
  identification of specific research areas
• Provide the basis for creating an asset integrity
  community of interest

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Workshop Program

• 845 1015 a.m. International Experiences
• 1040 1215 p.m. East Coast Perspectives
• 1215 115 p.m. Buffet Luncheon
• 115 300 p.m. Research Activities and
  Capabilities
• 320 430 p.m. The Way Forward
• 500 Informal Reception