Inspection/maintenance

Condition-Based Maintenance Helps Develop a North Sea Low-Manned Platform

Remote condition monitoring of offshore platform equipment tracks performance data, watching for deviations from baseline benchmarks. Unexpected variances can be investigated and serviced by technicians dispatched to target the root causes—an approach called condition-based maintenance.

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Source: Aker BP

An application at the forefront of the accelerating digitalization of offshore exploration and production (E&P) is remote condition monitoring (CM) of platform equipment, especially with a unique data-sampling technique called time stamping. CM tracks the performance data of equipment, watching for deviations from baseline performance benchmarks. Any unexpected variances from those established baselines may indicate a developing fault in systems found typically on offshore platforms. Technicians can then be dispatched to further investigate or service the equipment, targeting root causes of the variances—an approach called condition-based maintenance (CBM).

Greater Efficiency With Digitalization

The CBM approach has shown that it can improve reliability, availability, and asset use.

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