Aplicación del Mantenimiento Centrado en la Confiabilidad a los grupos electrógenos de la estación Tapir A del bloque 17 PetroOriental.

Abstract

The Reliability centered Maintenance (RCM) was applied to the power generators of Tapir Station A on block 17 at PetroOriental Company, due to a significant number of Waukesha stops of generators product of the fault of some mechanical, electrical and instrumentation elements that affected directly in the continuity of operations, the security and the equipment availability. All faults occurred in the second half of the year 2015 were collected, in addition to the data which were tabulated, and the most critical systems and elements for the operation of the generators were determining with a thorough analysis by applying the (RCM), which allowed to establish a new maintenance plan that has been applied since the first half of the year 2016. Fault analysis performed for the period January- June 2016, established that the new plan based on RCM, reduced the equipment stops by 31% and the availability of generators was increased from 93.3% to 95.5 %.The increase of the availability in the equipments involved in this study is directly reflected in the profitability of the company since the maintenances were reduced by 32% compared between the second half of the year 2015 and the first half of the year 2016. Another comparative advantage is the increased production of 6964 barrels in the first half of 2016, representing an income of approximately $ 278,560 with an average price of $ 40 per barrel. The methodology applied to power generators can be used in other station equipment or the company to improve its availability and consequently increase the profitability of the company.