General Director
Canadian Energy Services
The following is a proposal to provide the Oman Gas Company Gas Control operations personnel with a certifiable training program. The Program will follow the adopted American DOT Operations certifications guidelines wherever possible but will be custom built to meet the Oman Gas Company immediate training needs.
The proposed program would have Comgas Consultants provide the Training manuals, Gas Control Emergency Procedures, a review of the current Oman Gas Company Gas Control Operation, training manual testing criteria and a final Oman Gas Company Operational personnel evaluation.
Comgas personnel will also review the current SCADA training and the current level of the Gas Control Personnel ability to navigate the installed Oman Gas Companies SCADA system in an effort to close any gaps that OCG would have from the scope of training provided by the SCADA Vendor.
Also included in the training program would be a series of hands on SCADA surveillance training, Gas Control functional training, Table top Emergency simulations, basic hydraulic training, linepack management theory, receipt and delivery balancing fundamentals and if required Nomination procedure theory.
The following list is the Comgas Training Manuals and Procedures that would be developed and presented during the provided classroom and Control Center associated training.
Training would include Classroom theory, control center hands on and time permitting field exposure that would include the total OCG Operations team during the time frame scheduled for the proposed training.
Training Manuals To Be Developed By Comgas
Nature and Properties of Natural Gas (manual 1)
Introduction to Information Management (manual 2)
Fundamentals of Gas Control Pipeline Operations (manual 3)
Introduction to Pipeline Hydraulics and Natural Gas Laws and Principals (manual 4)
Principals of Gas Quality Measurement and Instrumentation (manual 5)
Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Measurement (manual 6)
Fundamentals of Modbus and DNP3 Protocol
Gas Control Functional Operation Theory
Hands on training and class room theory using the Oman Gas Company pipeline System as a model
Operating Strategies.
System flow patterns.
Linepack management strategy.
Daily operation theory
Connecting pipeline operators and operational practices.
Contract pressures at Production Plants and Pressure Reduction Terminals
Maximum operating pressures of pipelines.
Outage process, outage write-ups and the Gas Control Short Term Operational Plan theory
On call procedures.
Linepack management and effect on system performance.
Pipeline corridor drawings (schematics).
Gas Control Procedures To Be Developed by Comgas
H2S Emergency Response and detailed execution plan
H2O Emergency Response and detailed execution plan
Line Break Emergency Response and detailed execution plan
Over Pressure Emergency Response and detailed execution plan
Loss of SCADA Emergency Response and detailed execution plan
Evaluations
Gas Control personnel skill evaluation and next step training
Emergency Response Table Top evaluation and next step training
Technician skill evaluation and next step training. (As related to the proposed training plan)
Written Exam Test Results from the training modules.
Jim Rapuano
General Director
Comgas Consultants