Electrical Construction and Operational Standards in the Oil & Gas Field

What are the Goals?

At the end of this seminar, you will learn to:

• Elaborate on the Installation requirements of IEC 60079-14 and some requirements of IEEE standards.
• Discuss requirements of competent personnel onsite.
• Demonstrate the correct installation of a variety of Oil and Gas suitable cable Glands and accessories.
• Apply Health and Safety, Isolation and safe working practice requirements to their workplace.
• Use a variety of technical information such as schematic diagrams, wiring diagrams and area classification drawings.

Who is this Training Course for?

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Electrical and Instrument Technicians
• Electrical and Instrument Engineers
• Personnel whose work involves construction of equipment and systems on an Oil & Gas installation
• Supervisors
• Design Engineers (for understanding of Installation and Maintenance techniques)
• Mechanical Maintenance Technicians
• Mechanical Maintenance Engineers

Daily Agenda

Day One: Introduction and Basic principles

• Induction
• Introduction to Health and safety
• Dangers of Electricity
• Factors that affect Electric shock
• Historic background of legislation
• Examples of Oil & Gas case study incidents
• Causes of explosion
• Arc Blasts
• Common Electrical Safety Rules

Day Two: Basic Principles and General Concepts

• Common Electrical safety Rules recap
• Common Electrical Safety Procedures
• Low Voltage switching operations
• Live working
• Battery systems
• Arc flash/Blast Mitigation
• Competence levels of personnel (Low Voltage)
• Introduction to Common Electrical safety documents

Day Three: Protection Concepts

• Introduction to Common Electrical Safety Documents (Including Electrical Permit to work, Limitation of Access and Sanction for Test)
• Isolation techniques + Earthing (LV and HV)
• Basic Introduction to Switching programs and switching logs
• Switching Exercise
• Introduction to Technical information used in Oil & Gas Fields (Layout drawings, wiring diagrams, P&ID, etc.
• Basic Introduction to Hazardous Area Installations (Oil & Gas)
• Basic Area Classification including (Geometry of release, Release velocity, Ventilation, Relative density)

Day Four: Protection Concepts, Hybrid Systems and Certification Marking

• Basic Introduction to concepts used in Oil & Gas Installations such as IEC EPL’s, ATEX Categories, Gas groups, Flash point, Ignition Temperature and LEL/UEL.
• Temperature (T-ratings)
• Basic introduction to Protection concepts including Ex d, Ex e, Ex n, Ex i and Hybrid systems.
• Introduction to wiring systems and Glanding

Day Five: Inspection, Wiring Systems and Assessments

• Certification and marking
• Basic Introduction to Grades and types of inspection
• Maintenance considerations
• End of course theory Assessment (Multi-choice question paper)
• End of course practical Assessment (Installation of gland into Enclosure)