Qatar Petroleum (QP), in co-ordination with Honeywell Technology Solutions, recently organised an Operational Excellence Workshop in Doha.
In his opening remarks, operations manager (Dukhan Fields) Ahmad Saif al-Sulaiti welcomed all the attendees, who comprised the senior management from QP’s Dukhan Operations. He then gave a brief description of the implementation of operational excellence principles in Dukhan.
He pointed out that Dukhan Operations is currently in the process of establishing a composite and holistic approach to operational excellence so that it covers all aspects of operations and takes into account all stakeholders in Dukhan.
Al-Sulaiti stressed that the journey towards achieving operational excellence was a continuous process and that it could only be realised by focusing rigorously, gradually and continuously for improvements in people, process and
technology.
He also informed the participants that it would be a big challenge to harmonise all the requirements of the different departments in their common objective to achieve operational excellence. But he also expressed confidence that the challenges they were facing would create opportunities for further improvements.
At the end of the workshop, Soud al-Ruwaili, chairman of the Best Practice Technical Committee and assistant manager for Production Operations (gas recycling) at QP, delivered his closing remarks and thanked the participants for their interest and involvement during the sessions. He said a lot of work needed to be done in the coming months for the implementation of operational excellence based on the customised requirements of Dukhan Operations.
Al-Ruwaili also shed light on Dukhan Operations’ “Equilibrium Paradigm”, which integrates the different layers of production operations, maintenance and management in an effective and cohesive manner to achieve operational excellence. He emphasised that they would have to visit and revisit all departments within Dukhan Operations in order to understand the criticalities on need analysis basis to produce a high-quality framework of operational excellence and make this project a great success within QP.