| Abstract | Maintenance is one of the most important activities in production organization, especially
for oil and gas industry, the major objective of maintenance is to keep the all the facilities
are in highest productive level, prolonged life service and optimum production and safe
condition. Another objective should be taken into account is to optimize the maintenance
resources including labor cost, materials, energy.
Established in 2007 with the major business is operation and maintenance the gas
distribution network to supply natural gas for industrial household in industrial zones via
pipeline networks, Petrovietnam Low Pressure Gas Distribution J.S.C (PVGASD) has
continuously expanded the existing and developing new pipeline networks, the number of
customer and volume of gas sale has increased respectively. After over 6 years of
operation, there was no serious incident or accident happened to pipeline networks, it’s
really a remarkable achievement for a young company doing high risk business in oil and
gas industry like PVGASD. However, from recent assessment; there were some problems
need to be solved such as alarming number of equipment break down case, high number of
non-conformance report in operation management many arisen in internal safety audit, the
amount of outstanding job was higher than acceptance level.
The objective of this research is to give an overview of maintenance management of
PVGASD and figure out some outstanding related to maintenance planning and
scheduling. The input data for the research were collected from historical logbook of
operation and security, maintenance schedule reviewing, questionnaire survey. Throughout
data analysis, the research has identified some problem in maintenance planning and
scheduling and develop several solutions to improve the effectiveness and productivity of
maintenance planning and scheduling as well as general maintenance management of
PVGASD. |