Download - Workshop 5 – The Comprehensive Global Standards Project

Workshop 5 – The Comprehensive Global Standards

ProjectDarrell Bollier – SABIC

Matt Knudsen – Merrick & Company

Soundar Rajan – Huntsman Corporation

• Safety topic

• Informal member company survey

• Origin of the globalization committee

• The PIP strategic plan

• Useful discoveries along the way

• The “Huntsman project” overview

• Revised vision for the globalization committee

• Needs from member companies and function teams

• Desired outcomes of this project

Workshop 5 - Agenda

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Workshop 5 – Safety Topic


• Does your company have operating assets outside the US?

• Does your company have design centers outside the US?

• Have you worked on projects or in facilities outside the US?

Workshop 5 – Informal Member Company Survey


• PIP organized the Globalization Committee in 2011 at the request of member companies; many companies were undertaking international projects

• Excerpt from “ADG009 Guideline for Increasing Global Application of Practices”

• “Benefits and Drivers for Globalization

– Owners need a consistent set of Practices for facilities regardless of location.

– Consistent international Practices allow for more cost effective use of low cost engineering centers.

– Contractors need standards and specifications that can be applied to international projects.

– Operating companies cannot afford to develop and maintain multiple sets of standards and specifications for different regions.

– Standardization can be enabled and promoted.

– Many major projects are being constructed outside the U.S.

– More companies are moving towards using international standards.”

Workshop 5 – Origin of the Globalization Committee


• Then, PIP published a strategic plan addressing globalization in more

detail

– Promote the adaptation of existing practices for use outside the US

– Define internationally recognized standards for the Functional Teams to promote a

consistent approach to globalization

– Support development of standards for use specifically outside the US at the

guidance of member companies

– Capture knowledge pertaining to regions of the world to break down globalization

into manageable pieces

– Consider overseas user groups (e.g. India) with passive approach

Workshop 5 – The Strategic Plan


• OGP Report No. 4210

• UN Classifications of Countries by Major Area

and Region of the World

Workshop 5 – Useful Discoveries Along the Way


Workshop 5 – Useful Discoveries Along the Way


• Growth through mergers and acquisition– 100+ plants operating around the globe

• All of which were designed to some form of engineering standards appropriate at the time of construction– The standards not always included

– When included; frozen at the point of acquisition

– Leading to many different engineering design standards

– In some cases they provide inconsistent guidance for

identical process materials in different locations

Workshop 5 – The “Huntsman Project” Overview


Workshop 5 – Our Goal


Replace all legacy engineering design standards

Adopt a core set of Global Standards

– Define the minimum acceptable safe design standards for

process facilities

– That are consistent with Recognized And Generally

Acceptable Good Engineering Practice (RAGAGEP)

– Incorporate the technical material produced by recognized

standards developing organizations

Workshop 5 – Principal Approach


(FS)

Workshop 5 – Standard Structure


• Functional Standard Based on RAGAGEP– CEN Norms (EN)– API/ASME/BSI/ISO etc.

• Adopt PIP as recommended practice– For topics covered– Generally “as is”– As Engineering Guides

• Format – Company Cover Sheet– With any exceptions noted– Sanctioned by the appropriate SME

Team Structure

Workshop 5 – Service Specific Requirement (SSR)

Document


• Supplements the Functional Standards to accommodate

chemical specific process safety hazards in the design

• An SSR is a document that

– Contains a set of defined design specifications

– In the form of mandatory requirements and supporting

notes

– Is applicable to a specific hazardous chemical service

• The requirements called out supersedes any less stringent

local requirements and are universally applicable

Workshop – 5 Project & Site Specific Addenda


• PSA – Project Specific Addenda

• SSA – Site Specific Addenda

• Each site has the discretion to include additional requirements to address– Reliability

– Maintainability

– Operability

– Spares Management

– Site Preferences

• Cannot add a requirement that would conflict

with an SSR or RAGAGEP requirement Site

Work Shop – 5 Blue Print


SSR FS & EG PSA/SSA

PSA/SSA

Workshop - 5 Sustaining Process


Workshop 5 – Revised Vision for the Globalization

Committee



Committee


• Short term– Completion of reference table by function teams

– Revision of Appendix B by function teams

• Long term– Be aware when you’re working in new regions and share project research with the

globalization committee

Workshop 5 – Needs from Member Companies

(Function Teams)


• The comprehensive global standards project will result in a

common understanding of the minimum design standards by

region

• Member companies could harmonize their operations by

using these results

• In turn, operating companies could improve PSM,

mechanical integrity, and overall asset management

• Member companies could save project cost by having a

standard set of practices organized by region

Workshop 5 – Desired Outcome


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