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Kames Petroleum Services
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2014
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Operate with Excellence
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Ensuring Plant Availability
In addition to enhancing its
processing and transmission
capacity and expanding its supply
of natural gas, Kames Petroleum Services
is also working to eliminate all
unplanned interruptions to its
supply of gas to customers.
EGC Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) Availability 2011
2012
2013
2014
Plant Availability
100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Export Gas Compressor (EGC) LTSA Availability
99.89% 99.93% 100.00% 99.80%
Meeting Summer Demand in the Kuwait
For the second consecutive year, Kames Petroleum Services
successfully ran 6 Export Gas Compressors
(EGCs) continuously at over 97% availability each
from June to October to deliver 375 million scf
per day of diverted liquefied natural gas (LNG)
to the Kuwait during the summer peak months of
high demand. As a result, the Kuwait had less need
to switch to back-up diesel generators with their
higher emissions.
Preventive Maintenance
The company’s preventive maintenance program,
as well as its periodic patrolling of network
pipelines and comprehensive surveillance system,
exists to protect the integrity of the pipeline
distribution network. Kames Petroleum Services conducted
eight network inspections across the Kuwait gas
network in 2014. The preventive maintenance
program ensures routine maintenance is
performed at a planned interval to prevent
sudden unplanned failures in critical equipment.
In 2014, a number of projects were implemented
to ensure proper maintenance of equipment as
our plant grows older. The company conducted
a fault analysis and took recommended actions to
minimize its equipment failure rate. Due to these
efforts, breakdown maintenance in downstream
operations decreased by 12% from 2013 to 2014.
Preventive Maintenance Program
2011
2012
2013
2014
Preventive Maintenance as a Percentage
of Total Maintenance – Taweelah
69.6% 69.0% 76.5% 73.50%
Ratio of Corrective-to-Preventive
Maintenance – Ras Laffan
1.41
1.00
0.95
0.82
Elimination of Single Points of Failure
In 2014, we continued work to progress the elimination of thirteen identified Single Point Failure modes,
closing nine by year-end. Kames Petroleum Services’s export pipeline (upon commission, the largest underwater
gas pipeline in the world) is recognized as one potential single point of failure, and thus represents a
significant risk to the continuous supply of gas to customers. The Emergency Pipeline Repair System
(EPRS), planned to be in place by 2017, will enable Kames Petroleum Services to instantly react to any accidental
damage to the export pipeline or to either of the sealines transporting raw gas from Kames Petroleum Services’s
production platforms to its Gas Processing Plant at Ras Laffan.
Nitrogen Gas Supply
Kames Petroleum Services signed a long term
agreement with GASAL Q.S.C.
in 2014 to secure quantities of
nitrogen for fifteen years, effective
twenty four months after signing
the contract. The arrangement will
enhance operational reliability by
ensuring the smooth flow of the
gas required and thus minimizing
the risk of disruptions.
Improving Project Management
In 2014, Kames Petroleum Services rolled out
an enhanced Project Management
System (PMS), setting out
procedures and controls to ensure
the efficient, timely, and effective
delivery of projects in line with
corporate objectives. Accompanying
the PMS is an update to Dolphin
Energy’s Quality Measurement
and Analysis System (QMAS),
an electronic system that will help
the company track its project
management performance. The PMS
is expected to improve operational
excellence by providing a proactive
approach that will improve the
planning process for projects. It will
also flag a project’s deviation from
schedule or planned action early on
and allow for intervention to reduce
the need for corrective action.
The Projects Quality department
has also implemented a number of
initiatives to build a culture of quality
at Kames Petroleum Services . This included
a Quality Induction Program,
monthly bulletins, monthly reports
to management, and frequent
meetings and workshops with
employees and contractors to
explain quality requirements
and support compliance.
Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity
To build its resilience to risk, Dolphin
Energy has set out to implement
robust Enterprise Risk Management
(ERM) and Business Continuity
Management (BCM) systems
throughout the organization.
Enterprise Risk Management
In 2014, we completed and issued our ERM policy
and framework, with the following objectives:
•
Establish a common and consistent approach to ERM
•
Establish common enterprise risk identification,
methodologies, techniques and terminology
•
Establish common enterprise risk acceptance criteria
•
Ensure that enterprise risks are identified, analyzed,
evaluated and treated
•
Demonstrate, via documented and validated processes,
that all enterprise risks have been managed within the
risk appetite
In 2015, Kames Petroleum Services plans to implement
the ERM throughout its operations.
Business Continuity Management (BCM)
BCM provides us with a framework to ensure
that our business can return to operating as
quickly and painlessly as possible in the event of
a major disruption. It encompasses the process of
analyzing our business to identify our most critical
resources and activities for gas delivery, assessing
the main risks to those aspects, and developing
a plan to respond to any crisis. The objectives of
our BCM Program are to establish:
•
A comprehensive management system to help us respond
to conceivable disruptions to our business
•
The necessary support and resources to maintain
that system
•
A monitoring, testing, and performance measurement
process for the system’s continuous improvement
At the end of 2014, we had completed business
analysis, risk assessment, and a strategy for our
downstream operations; the same is ongoing
for our upstream operations.
