Refinery Shutdown & Turnaround

This Refinery Shutdown and Turnaround training course is delivered by means of a combination of instructor-led topic areas and class discussions. This training course is further enhanced by the use of case studies, examples and practical exercises that are pre-loaded onto a laptop for each delegate. The templates, case studies, examples and exercises are subsequently available to each delegate after the training course as a reference for further study, research or practice. This ensures a high level of knowledge and skill retention.

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

• Understand the Failure mechanisms of Refinery applying API 571
• Size the necessary work for Assets life maximization using API 579
• Apply the correct type of turnaround for each asset
• Schedule work activities
• Control time, budget and scope during shutdown
• Assess performance of Turnaround

It is highly recommended that Refinery maintenance, reliability, engineering and technical support staff including leadership and management to attend this Gulf Rowad Refinery Shutdown & Turnaround training course. Also, including:

• Planners
• Supervisors
• Engineers
• Reliability Engineers
• Maintenance Team Leaders and Managers
• Operations Team Leaders and Managers

Organisational Impact

The organisation will:

• Be capable to optimize shutdown and turnaround costs
• Be able to minimize effect of shutdown turnaround on life cycle scale
• Target work activities on critical Refinery equipment
• Assess Refinery Shutdown activities in time, scope and efficiency

Personal Impact

The participant will be able to:

• Understand the machine failure and degradation using API 571 and other international codes
• Size shutdown work requirement using API 579
• Implement the appropriate shutdown program to improve reliability
• Control Shutdown cost time and scope during execution
• Assess all Turnaround activities with the appropriate indicators