Department · IOGP 510
Operations and Maintenance
Scope
Day-to-day production operations, asset maintenance, permit-to-work, real-time supervision, and the deviation/intervention discipline at the sharp end. The function that executes against the standards Engineering sets and the procedures the management system mandates.
The reframing
"'Ops = the people who run it' is the easy framing — but Operations and Maintenance own significant content in every element from leadership commitment through to assurance. The deeper test: when a barrier degrades, does Ops have the authority and the procedure to act? If yes, the framework is working. If not, the framework has been written for somebody else's audit."
Footprint across the framework
E01
Commitment and Accountability
This is where leadership commits to how the asset will be operated and sustained — operating philosophy, integrity ownership and the cultural commitments that hold under production pressure.
5 docs →
E02
Policies and Standards
This element holds the operating and maintenance standards — operating envelopes, maintenance strategy, integrity standards and the control-of-work standard.
11 docs →
E03
Organisation, Resources and Capability
This element holds asset capability — the offshore/onshore organisation, the OIM accountability, technician and operator competence, and the contractor competence model.
9 docs →
E04
Stakeholders and Customers
This element holds the asset interfaces — regulator, terminal and pipeline operators, JV partners, and the asset's interface with corporate functions.
4 docs →
E05
Risk Assessment and Control
This element holds operational risk control — operational risk assessments, integrity risk management, MoC for operations, and deferral / production risk decisions.
10 docs →
E06
Asset Design and Integrity
This element holds the integrity execution of the asset in service — operating envelopes in use, SECE performance monitoring, integrity engineering at the asset.
9 docs →
E07
Plans and Procedures
This element holds the executable operating and maintenance procedures — operating procedures, maintenance routines, shutdown plans, start-up plans and emergency procedures.
11 docs →
E08
Execution of Activities
This element is operations as it actually happens — permit-to-work in use, shift handover, real-time decision-making, intervention and override management.
9 docs →
E09
Monitoring, Reporting and Learning
This element captures how operational performance becomes visible — production KPIs, integrity KPIs, deferrals, near-miss and weak-signal reporting.
8 docs →
E10
Assurance, Review and Improvement
This element holds the independent challenge of asset operations — operational assurance, integrity verification, audit and post-event review.
7 docs →
Where Operations & Maintenance pivots into other departments
→ EngineeringReceives standards, raises deviations, owns integrity execution
→ WellsProducing well operations, intervention support
→ CommercialService contracts, contractor operational performance
→ HR / PeopleOperational competence, fatigue and shift management