LNG Terminal Turnaround Performance – for the first time
This LNG offloading terminal was facing its first maintenance shutdown and turnaround. With high visibility and significant constraints, the team needed to deliver on their targets.
“We’d never done this type of project before, and it was crucial for us to get back online on time and keep our promises to our customers. We couldn’t have done it without RLG.”
—Site Director
Context/Challenge
Our client operated a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal for over a decade and vital for 30% of their nation’s gas supply. They faced their first maintenance turnaround and thus, their first decompression. Achieving performance targets were key, with many eyes focused on their planning, readiness and risk management.
To help achieve their goals, our client’s sought to:
- Reduce duration: The baseline schedule was 7 days longer than the commercial window.
- Achieve strict emission standards: Minimal flaring during shutdown required an industry-first ‘green’ approach.
- Execute to plan: Deliver on promises by safely and responsibly delivering the turnaround on-time and on budget.
Approach
The RLG team quickly engaged to play a critical role amongst the client and contractor teams. Our focus areas included:
- Evaluating and Improving Readiness by assessing turnaround planning against industry benchmarks to pinpoint gaps and blind spots,
- Build Engagement by involving the right data and people, including contractors, in scope, schedule, status and risk conversations well in advance of execution,
- Optimize Plans through facilitated sessions that examined and improved planning for critical scopes and an integrated schedule,
- Enhance Awareness and Collaboration through online visual planning tools and reporting methods, and by active facilitation of owner and contractor teams,
- Streamline Discovery Work by deploying processes to triage, plan and execute discovery work scopes,
- Build Capability to strengthen the client’s internal processes and capability for future events.
Result
This client team delivered a successful turnaround, achieved ahead of schedule and accomplishing key goals for safety and environmental compliance.
- Through meticulous planning, optimization, and collaboration sessions, we identified potential time savings of 7 days before the turnaround commenced.
- During execution, we exceeded expectations by delivering 8 days of event optimization, reducing the overall schedule by 24% and adding USD$2.8 million in production value.
- Among the many site contractors and owner team, there were zero safety incidents.
- Through their successful delivery and against significant challenges, this preserved customer trust in the client’s leadership and execution team.
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