Maintenance Operations and its Management in Oil Industry in Kuwait

Abstract

The maintenance in oil area need to undertake entire shutdowns together with generic refinery turn-around, unit shutdowns on a full accountability foundation and Scaffolding services. The in-house equipment and equipment: the in-house Maintenance workshop facility ought to be completely outfitted with lathe machines, shaping machine, hole spindle lathe machine, horizontal boring machine, radial drilling machine, pipe threading machine, valve lapping machine, mechanical seal lapping machine, welding computing device and all sorts of specialized warmness exchanger re-tubing gear and tools. Maintenance operations in this zone face many troubles in management, price and technical problems. This study aims to study the and count the failures occurred in equipments of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in 2019, and study the maintenance strategies used in petroleum industry in the Kuwait state, a maintenance programs or steps will be suggested and investigated in order to improve the maintenance operations. Availability of devices are calculated depending on downtime of the devices at KOC. The data were collected about failures frequency occurred for the KOC company equipments. Most of oil equipments have good availability but in the case of KOC four devices have availability less than 90% which means more failure and downtime, the company adopted a Zero S/D PM Strategy or Philosophy which decreasing failures by 75% and improve the availability of KOC devices. Planning and management of maintenance and monitoring operations in any company decreasing failure frequency of equipments and so downtime of equipments which improves the equipments availability.