Department · Process Safety
Engineering
Scope
Technical standards, discipline competence, engineering processes, and the technical authority / subject matter expert framework. Engineering's job is to make sure that what is designed, modified or specified is technically sound — and that the people doing that work are competent to do it.
Out of scope
Operations, Maintenance and HSSE — these are separate functions with their own mappings. Engineering provides standards and assurance into those functions; it does not execute their work.
The reframing
"'Engineering = drawings and standards' thinking doesn't survive contact with the framework. If Engineering can name owners across all ten elements, the function is operating as a system, not a service. If two or three elements have no Engineering owner, that absence is the audit finding the organisation has not yet had."
Footprint across the framework
Design integrity
37 documents: Rotating Equipment Overspeed Protection Policy · Performance Standard: SECE Pipelines · Performance Standard: SECE Fire and Gas Detection · Performance Standard: SECE Process Containment …
37 docs →
Asset integrity
24 documents: Operational Performance Standards and Verification Examination Scheme · Corrosion Management Strategy · Vibration Management Strategy · Topsides Structures: Structural Integrity …
24 docs →
Operating integrity
7 documents: Code of Practice: Electrical Safety Procedures · Operational Risk Assessment Procedure · Dynamic Positioning Systems Risk Assessment Procedure · Installation Marine Operations Procedure …
7 docs →
People and culture
10 documents: Engineering Management System Statement · Commitment to Technical Integrity · Pipelines Major Accident Prevention Document · Engineering Delegation of Authority List …
10 docs →
Where Engineering pivots into other departments
→ Operations & MaintenanceHandover, integrity execution, deviation acceptance
→ WellsDesign interface, well examination, barrier integrity
→ SubsurfaceSubsurface inputs to design (rates, fluids, pressures), basis of design
→ CommercialContractor technical assurance, vendor specifications