ISO 20815 is a safety standard for production assurance and reliability management in petroleum industry, enabling efficiency, performance and longevity in petroleum industry applications.
ISO 20815 describes the concept of production assurance within the systems and operations associated with exploration drilling, exploitation, processing, and transport of petroleum, petrochemical, and natural gas resources. ISO 20815 covers upstream (including subsea), midstream and downstream facilities, petrochemical, and associated activities.
ISO 20815 focuses on production assurance of oil and gas production, processing, and associated activities and covers the analysis of reliability and maintenance of the components. ISO 20815 includes a variety of business categories and associated systems/ equipment in the oil and gas value chain. Production assurance addresses not only hydrocarbon production but also associated activities such as drilling, pipeline installation, and subsea intervention.
ISO 20815 provides processes and activities, requirements, and guidelines for systematic management, effective planning, execution, and use of product assurance and reliability technology. This is to achieve cost-effective solutions over the life cycle of an asset development project structured around the following main elements:
ISO 20815 designates 12 processes, of which seven are defined as core production assurance processes and addressed in ISO 20815. The only requirement mandated by ISO 20815 is the establishment and execution of the production assurance program (PAP). It is important to reflect the PAP in the overall project management in the project for which it applies. ISO 20815 recommends that the listed processes and activities be initiated only if they can be considered to add value.
ISO 20815 on the production assurance and reliability management in petroleum industry is relevant to:
The petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries involve large capital investment costs as well as operational expenditures. The profitability of these industries is dependent upon the reliability, availability, and maintainability of the systems and components that are used. Therefore, for optimal production availability in the oil and gas business, a standardized, integrated reliability approach is required.
ISO 20815 provides users guidance on production assurance that enables a mutual understanding with respect to the use of reliability technology in the various life cycle phases and covers the activities implemented to achieve and maintain a performance level that is at its optimum.
ISO 20815 also provides users guidance on production performance analyses, such as reliability and availability analyses, which are systematic evaluations and calculations that are carried out to assess the performance of a system.
Overall, ISO 20815 is useful as it provides a basis for decisions concerning the choice of solutions and measures to achieve an optimum economy within the given constraints. This implies that the analysis should be performed at a point in time when sufficient details are available to provide sustainable results.
BS EN ISO 20815:2018 supersedes BS EN ISO 20815:2010, which is withdrawn.
BS EN ISO 20815:2018 replaces the first edition (ISO 20815:2008), which has been technically revised. The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows:
EN ISO 20815:2018
ISO 20815:2018